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January 20, 2017

Lead Portal Designer Kim Swift Joins EA’s Motive Studio

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Kim Swift, the woman who led development on the highly acclaimed Portal, has joined EA’s Motive studio in Montreal, taking up a new role as a design director. She will worker under Jade Raymond and be part of the collaboration between Motive and Visceral Games, working on the Star Wars project that is headed by Amy Hennig. “We’ve devoted much of the past year at Motive to building a team of amazingly talented people to work on our new IP and Star Wars projects. I could not be more excited to welcome an all-star like Kim, who shares our enthusiasm for building exceptional games,” Raymond said in the company’s announcement. Swift joined Valve after her and several of her fellow graduates created Narbacular Drop, which impressed Gabe Newell enough to offer the team jobs at his company. They went on to create Portal and the designer later worked on games such as Left 4 Dead and its sequel. Since then, she has worked as Airtight Games and Amazon. Motive is

June 18, 2012

20 Minutes of Dead Space 3 Gameplay

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Dead Space 3 Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis takes us on a little trip through a Necromorph filled gameplay demo. The video shows off some new enemies and dismemberment effects, and it’s pretty cool. Still have a lot of reservations about Dead Space looking more like Lost Planet than…you know, Dead Space. Check the vid out below and see for yourself. httpv://youtu.be/KuJdFRo7GsM

April 15, 2012

Rumour: Dead Space 3 Reveal Imminent? Heading to Wii U too?

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To date, Nintendo gamers have only been graced with the fantastic Dead Space: Extraction, is that about to change? The next issue of UK magazine PLAY features “DEAD SPACE 3″ clearly on the top left of their cover… When visiting the magazines site you can see a list of features included in the magazine, but DEAD SPACE 3, is suspiciously absent, could this be down to one of those pesky NDAs? Some of you may also be quick to point out that this magazine is a Playstation, but don’t let that fool you. At E3 2011 EA’s Frank Gibeua said the following… With the Wii U it’s important for us to get there on day one so we can get in and build as big an audience as possible. We were really blown away by the unique innovation that Nintendo brings with the Wii U controller on a high performance machine. The ability to do HD graphics and access game experiences in a completely novel way and a way that’s never been seen

September 21, 2011