Captivate 08 Blow Out!

Gaming jobs are awesome. Why? Well, just last week I spent the entire week in Las Vegas from Tuesday to Saturday, living it up in a posh hotel on the 32nd floor with free booze, food, video games and 150 like-minded video game folks to play them with. Plus we got to shoot at zombies. Now, before you’re overcome with jealousy, live the event vicariously by clicking through and checking out all the games we showed off at Captivate 08.

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“The verticality of combat”: Kraig K drops science on Dark Void

Dark Void finally emerged from the shadows during CAPTIVATE08, and you guys are undoubtedly seeing tons of cool stuff hitting on the game. Dark Void was one of the standout titles from the event — sure, everyone knew they were going to dig RE5, but Dark Void grabbed attention with its great visuals, interesting spin on third-person action and team pedigree. Here’s a great look at the game (at least, as much as we have revealed thus far) with Capcom’s own Kraig Kujawa hitting all the pertinent communication points. That’s some solid media training!

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Dark Void Dev Blog!

Dark Void is beginning its move into the limelight with a week-long exclusive focus over at 1Up.com There’s a bunch of great stuff over there but the most fun for my money is the developer’s blog.

Featuring the key players from both Capcom and Airtight, the blog is a great mix of insight from the development and publishing sides, and already ranges over topics from the development of the core gameplay to the team’s new (and terrifying!) philosophy of openness, all served with a side dish of funny.

Check it out here!

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Dark Void week on 1up.com!

We’ve been breaking cover early on some of our CAPTIVATE08 titles, all the better to tease you with Capcom’s brain-melting lineup for the next year. 1up is rolling out the first real look at our under-the-radar title, Dark Void, in anticipation of the media/community demos that we’ll be giving next week. Check out the content happening all this week at 1up, including the dev team’s blog, a hands-on preview of an early version of the demo and hot, hot video action!

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