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On starting The Mix and finding diverse funding sources for indies | Justin Woodward

Justin Woodward and Dean Takahashi talked about indies at GamesBeat Summit 2025.
Justin Woodward started out as one of the small cogs in the big wheel of the game industry. He studied game art and design in college. Then he got a job at a triple-A game company as a 3D background artist. But he decided he would rather be a game designer instead of being one among many 3D artists. He started his own graphic design studio, doing t…Read More
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The pleasure of transforming sand to water in Sword of the Sea | Matt Nava interview


From the first moment I played Sword of the Sea at the Summer Game Fest Play Days, I knew that it was like the game Journey, which led down from that wonderful game created years ago to the moment when I was playing the latest game from Matt Nava’s game studio, Giant Squid. I played the beginning of the game. You start out as a nameless chara…Read More
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Borderlands 4 promises seamless combat, looting and leveling up | hands-on preview

Multitasking in Borderlands 4.
Borderlands 4 is coming on September 12 on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Windows PC. I had a chance to play it for a few hours in a preview session, and I liked how familiar it felt. The action role-playing first-person shooter looter game is now priced at $70 instead of the previously floated $80, per Gearbox Softwa…Read More
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