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Spotlight on Greenlight, 16/3/13: Tower of Guns

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Spotlight on Greenlight, 16/3/13: Tower of Guns

Welcome once again to PCGamesN’s Spotlight on Greenlight, our regular Saturday feature where we look at the best and the most interesting Greenlight games that are hoping to make their way onto Steam. We’ve already looked at dozens of other titles in weeks past, so do take a look at our back catalogue.

 

I love procedural generation in games. Almost everyone who knows me knows this, because I never shut up about it. This means I tend to fall hard for roguelikes, for anything with endlessly reinvented levels, even for fractals. There's a lot of strategy and roleplaying games that feature random generation, but not so many first-person shooters. There is, however, Tower of Guns.

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Elder Scrolls and Kingdoms of Amalur lead designer joins Turbine

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Elder Scrolls and Kingdoms of Amalur lead designer joins TurbineAh! Ken. Ken Rolston. Ken led the good ship Bethesda for a number of years as lead designer for Morrowind, its two expansions, and finally Oblivion, before consigning himself to a well-deserved rest from game development. He since came out of retirement for one last job - Big Huge Games’ Kingdoms of Amalur and 38 Studios’ linked MMO, Project Copernicus - but in a cruel Hollywood twist, was laid off alongside all of his colleagues when both studios shut down this summer.

Fortunately, Rolston has been picked up and dusted off by Turbine, them of the quite good Lord of the Rings: Online, and put to work as design director.

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Firefall team nearly doubled by influx of 38 Studios and The Old Republic devs

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Firefall team nearly doubled by influx of 38 Studios and The Old Republic devsBetween the newly announced Firefall eSports toolkit and a patch so radical its stated aim is to “create fun”, Red 5 Studios have had their work cut out for them over the last month. Yet they’ve still managed to spare enough able bodies to hold the door open and let in a stream of talent recently cut loose from 38 Studios and BioWare Austin.

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