Quite a few cool games com­ing out soon for us Mil­i­tary Shooter fans. Thought I’d put my thoughts up about a few of the upcom­ing releases…

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Was just made aware of this early today:

Indie Game Challenge

Win up to $100,000 or a bunch of other stuff — Con­test Dead­line is Oct 1.

Get Design­ing!

So for the American’s in the audi­ence (because Hulu is retarded that way), there is an extended pre­view of the Hurt Locker over on Hulu:

More pre­cisely it’s the first 8 min­utes of the movie, which if you didn’t see my ear­lier post about it, is about IED (bomb defus­ing) spe­cial­ists in Iraq / Afghanistan. Crazy insane shit frankly. What these guys go through on a daily basis just about blows my mind.

Met a guy a few days ago, he’s a Viet­nam vet, and his son just went into the Army as an IED spe­cial­ist. Absolutely crazy bas­tard (the son for actu­ally WANTING to do this), but you have to have the hugest respect for peo­ple that are mak­ing this kind of sac­ri­fice on a daily basis. Let alone being a par­ent, know­ing your son / daugh­ters are out in this kind of mess on a daily basis.

Any­ways, go watch the trailer (again, only if you live in the US because Hulu are a bunch of morons). It’s worth your while.

Ever won­dered what exactly goes into the process of get­ting a game approved by a pub­lisher? Want an exclu­sive behind the scenes view of the devel­op­ment process, includ­ing get­ting con­sole approval, detailed infor­ma­tion about mile­stones and much, much more?

Well the awe­some guys over at Intro­ver­sion have pub­lished just that — a com­plete in-depth look at the entire devel­op­ment process behind Dar­winia, includ­ing never-before details about the Xbox Live Arcade approval process, their actual mile­stone sched­ule and many other details that are very dif­fi­cult to come across if you are just start­ing out.

If you are inter­ested in game devel­op­ment or are try­ing to break into the indus­try — this is a ‘must see’ site:

http://www.introversion.co.uk/darwiniaplus/

Don’t know if any­one out there has heard of Inter­stel­lar Marines, but it is an Indie game being devel­oped by Zero Point Soft­ware. If you have had an idea about cre­at­ing some­thing and wanted some inspi­ra­tion to kick it into high gear, these guys are some­thing to see.

Cou­ple of videos that are worth watching:

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