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Earlier this year at the Game Developers Conference, I spoke with Redacted Studios president David Robinson about the upcoming Afro Samurai 2. It was a lengthy conversation, in part because I enjoyed the original

Being episodic allows us the flexibility with development to experiment more with some crazy ideas.

David Robinson

Unity has been the team's saving grace; Afro Samurai 2 is being made by less than a dozen people working on a shoestring budget, so utilizing every potential resource is vital. Says Robinson, "That's where the Unity Store has also been a lifesaver for us. It's cool. We sell some bottles and cans we collected from the neighbor's trash, and boom! We can afford that plugin that saves us three weeks' programmer time we didn't have in the first place. I wasn't a fan of Unity before I became an indie. Now, it's literally the oxygen we breathe. No shit. Pardon my language. Engines make me emotional."

Robinson is an emotional guy in general, actually, clearly excited by his game, his studio, and the partnerships he's created. Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA is again on board as Music Director; American Sniper co-author Jim DeFelice is penning the story. I haven't yet played Afro Samurai 2 myself, save for a few moments of button-mashing at GDC. But when a designer is this enthusiastic, the joy is contagious. "What carries us is the passion for making games and telling stories we think fans want to see, play, and hopefully buy," says Robinson. From almost anyone else, I'd dismiss this statement as typical public-relations-speak. When Robinson says it, I wholeheartedly believe it.

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David Vonderhaar, design director of Call of Duty: Black Ops III offered through his Twitter account a lot of details about the game.

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Ubisoft blog: The real world is not predictable. You can make educated guesses as to how something might play out, but you cant really know for sure. This unpredictability is something David Therriault, Team Lead Programmer on Watch Dogs, and his team tried to inject into the city of Chicago to make it feel truly alive. We spoke with him about some of the challenges of programming a systemic open world, the life of a programmer, and working with all of the diverse teams within Ubisoft.

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First it was Twin Peaks without David Lynch, now its Metal Gear Solid without Hideo Kojima. Konami say theyll continue the series without the veteran developer, who recently left the company under mysterious circumstances. But Hideo Kojima IS Metal Gear Solid, and without him itll be a shadow of its former self.

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The former voice of Solid Snake and Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid Series has stated through Twitter that he didn't "run into" any of the MGS5 team while recording voiceovers for Republique, even though teams for both games were recording simultaneously in the same studio.

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A new Five Nights at Freddy's game has been teased by creator Scott Cawthon via an image on his with Roy Lee (The Departed, The LEGO Movie) and Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions (the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel) signed on as producers.

The Five Nights at Freddy's Games are available to purchase on Steam and the iTunes Apple Store.