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The Witness developer Jonathan Blow has shed some light on to the technical grunt of his PS4-exclusive puzzler. The creator has confirmed that it currently uses 5GB of the console’s 8GB RAM.

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The Swapper is the debut game from Finnish indie studio Facepalm Games, which is backed by the Indie Fund. As a representative of Indie Fund, developer of Braid and The Witness Jonathan Blow kindly talked VG247 through this intriguing platform puzzler at a recent showcase event in San Francisco.

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The Witness, Jonathan Blow’s game about exploration and puzzle-solving in an open world, will be released on PS4 and video discussing it is below.It’s all part of Sony’s conversations with developers series. The Witness is releasing as a timed PS4 exclusive and will also be released on PC.

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Two independent developers have said they’ve had a much better experience working with Sony than Microsoft in getting their games into the hands of console gamers.

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In an interview with EDGE, Jonathan Blow talked about performance on PS4 vs. PC on his upcoming game The Witness, and he said “the equivalent game will run faster” on PS4. I’m not really sure what that means, but the context is after the jump.
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Braid creator Jonathan Blow has explained why his upcoming game The Witness is releasing as a timed PS4 exclusive. He claims that the nature of Xbox 720 leaks led him to believe that Microsoft’s new rig isn’t just about games any more, while Sony’s renewed focus on gaming felt more appealing.

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Sony didn’t fork out a pile of cash to score a PS4 console exclusive release for The Witness, according to Braid creator Jonathan Blow.

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Jonathan Blow took the stage at tonight’s PS4 event, and he showed off his new project, which will be a timed exclusive for the platform.
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Independent developer Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid and the upcoming Witness, has said developing for Linux in its current form is unfeasible thanks to a 20% “productivity drain”. Posting on YCombinator, Blow said that he is keen on Linux in theory, but that debugging is just too laborious. Linux has been a hot topic recently, with more developers – including Valve – factoring in support for the open-source operating system.

Thanks, GamesIndustry.

Braid and The Witness creator Jonathan Blow has called on developers to consider the consequences of gaming’s impact on broader culture.

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IndieGames is reporting that Jonathan Blow’s latest, The Witness, contains 440 puzzles, and according to the man himself, a playtest of two game areas took nine and a half hours to play through.

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Indie Game: The Movie, a feature documentary about “video games, their creators and the craft,” will make its world premiere as an official selection in World Documentary Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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Jonathan Blow has said his next project, The Witness, will only be made available on PC and iOS due to consoles being a bit outdated.

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GDC Europe 2011 organisers have announced three more high-profile talks for the mid-August event.

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The University of California Santa Cruz is holding a guest speaker session, which will be hosted by indie developers Jonathan Blow, Chris Hecker and Alex Neuse.

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Ice-T said something about games this week. That’s literally all that happened. No it isn’t.

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Braid creator and indie darling Jonathan Blow has explained his labelling of social network games like Farmville and Ravenwood Fair as evil, citing selfishness and disarmingly innocent design as crimes against the player.

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A NeoGAF user is reporting that Sony has the abillity to ban hacked PS3s without online access.

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When hacker George (Geohot) Hotz was served with a temporary restraining order early in the evening of January 11, he had to have a good idea what was coming. So too must the other defendants on the stark legal papers prepared by Sony Computer Entertainment’s legal team – Hector Cantero, Sven Peter and 100 yet-to-be-named persons. One does not thumb their nose at mega-corporations lightly.

After a torrid fortnight, where PlayStation 3’s system security – namely its ability to determine whether code running is legitimate or not – has been laid bare by hacker group fail0verflow, Sony’s finally made its move.

Here, VG247 presents a report breaking down the the implications of the PS3 hack, what’s come already, what’s happening now, and who the real losers are in this complete fiasco.

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Braid creator Jonathan Blow has asked gamers to “have faith” in his next game The Witness, following a very early showing at PAX last month.

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