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• McNamara: L.A. Noire is "probably too big"

  Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara said L.A. Noire’s ambitious scale and proprietary tech blew development out to seven years.

• Quick quotes: McNamara on the "long, painful process” of closing Team Bondi

  “It was a long, painful process, but making games is like making films in that it’s a marathon, not a sprint – and some people come into the process not knowing that – I’d love to spend more time at home with my family and kids. We run things differently now – we have flexi-hours, […]

• L.A. Noire creator's next game is Whore of the Orient

  Kennedy Miller Mitchell Interactive will develop Brendan McNamara’s next game, Whore of the Orient.

• McNamara explains L.A. Noire crunch, says reputation of being a "bully" unwarranted

  Former Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has defending the studio’s crunch time during L.A. Noire’s development, and believes if there was a “smarter way of doing it” all developers should “do it a smarter way.”

• LA Noire creator's new game tackles a "great untold story"

  Former Team Bondi boss and founder Brendan McNamara has a new project in the works.

• Rumour - Team Bondi to join Dr D Studios

  Kotaku is citing sources inside Sydney film studios suggesting a possible acquisition of LA Noire developer Team Bondi.

• McNamara: Rockstar were "brave enough to take the risk" with L.A. Noire

  Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has said that when it came to publishing L.A. Noire, no other studio was willing to take a risk on the game other than Take Two’s Rockstar.

• Team Bondi: Cut LA Noire content wouldn't fit one Blu-ray

  Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that cut content from LA Noire wouldn’t have been able to fit on a single Blu-ray.

• Bondi's McNamara: Rockstar "looking at" MotionScan for upcoming games

  Boom. Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has claimed that Rockstar is currently looking at LA Noire’s famous facial technology MotionScan for its future batch of titles, including Grand Theft Auto V.

• Where There's Smoke: Team Bondi's Sydney "sweat shop"

  Everyone’s talking about Team Bondi, but is the Sydney studio just one of a growing number of developers bedevilled by harsh working conditions?

• Report - Rockstar "will not publish" next Bondi project

  “Disdain” for LA Noire developer Team Bondi on the game’s development from publisher Rockstar means it won’t publish the Sydney studio’s next game, a wide-ranging expose on GI.biz is reporting.

• Team Bondi feature describes reported working conditions during L.A. Noire development

  IGN has an excellent feature posted on the trials and tribulations Team Bondi went through to get L.A Noire out the door, and it also brings more to light regarding the reported issues surrounding the departure of frustrated staff.

• McNamara: Future Team Bondi projects won’t take five years to make

  Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has said that development on future studio projects won’t take as long as it did with LA Noire.

• Quick Quotes: L.A. Noire "appeals to a really broad church," says Team Bondi

  “We think [L.A. Noire] appeals to a really broad church, and one of the phenomenons we’ve seen a lot when we watch people play the game is that they’ll play it, or their wife or their girlfriend will play it, and two or three people will play it together like they’re watching TV. Three people […]

• LA Noire originally six discs on 360, says Team Bondi

  Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that LA Noire was originally going to feature more than three discs on Xbox 360.

• Rockstar: Future will be boring if games are only about "shooting things, dying and starting over"

  L.A. Noire director and Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara and Rockstar VP of development Jeronimo Barrera have stated in an interview that the L.A. Noire is a step towards creating a games which revolve around human drama, which may eventually pave the way for the developer to create a weapon-free game in the future.

• Team Bondi: LA Noire "will draw all types of players with various experience levels"

  Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that anticipated detective blockbuster LA Noire will bring in “all types of players,” regardless of gaming experience.

• LA Noire has 2,000-page script, dev has 200-terabyte capture "facility"

  This had better be good.

• Rockstar going for a "different approach" with LA Noire

  Rockstar’s told Edge that it’s going for a “different approach” with LA Noire when it releases later this year.