One Game, Five Systems – Choplifter

Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took…

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag star Matt Ryan says the term ‘voice actor’ is outdated: ‘You see the performances in the eyes, it blows me away’

Fully motion-captured performance for games “was in its infancy at the time, when I got the job,” remembers Matt Ryan, who starred as swashbuckler Edward Kenway in 2013’s Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. Forms of motion capture have been used to make games for decades, of course: in the 1980s Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner…

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