Monthly Archives: July 2011

WarMage Battlegrounds and the Future of Philly Game Development

An Interview with David Bowman of Burst Online David Bowman has made a career of getting in at the ground level.  After working at Bungie in the pre-HALO days, he went on to help found studios and major game projects with Turbine, Artifact Entertainment, Tulga Games, and Certain Affinity.  It’s fair to say he knows [...]

Return All Robots… Returns!

Back in December of 2010, Philly indie squad Space Whale Studios released their Xbox Live Arcade puzzler, Return All Robots, to warm reviews–from those who actually played it.  As anyone in the indie portion of the industry will tell you, it’s hard to get recognition, even when your game deserves it.  “I told someone at [...]

Meet Optimus–I mean Cipher Prime

Cipher Prime is not a game company.  They are, as co-founder Will Stallwood put it, “an interactive company.”  But if you only know it for its games Auditorium, Pulse, and Fractal, you’re not alone.  CP’s audio/visual experience games have been on and off the top of the iPlatform charts for music games for a long [...]