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• Aesthetics were just as important as gameplay when developing El Shaddai, says Ignition

  Ignition Entertainment’s Shane Bettenhausen has told Gamasutra, that the development team has a bit of fun basing El Shaddai on the biblical text of the Book of Enoch.

• Footage emerges of Ignition's canceled FPS Reich

  Some footage of Ignition Entertainment’s sci-fi FPS Reich has surfaced, following the Flordia branch’s closure last week.

• Takeyasu Sawaki sticking with "Japanese conventions" on El Shaddai

  Ignition Entertainment’s Takeyasu Sawaki has said he doesn’t want his latest game to be suited to a Western Audience, and is instead choosing to “embrace Japanese conventions” with El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

• Report: Ignition Entertainment to close London studio by October 31

  Ignition Entertainment has laid-off an undisclosed number of employees and is in the process of shutting down its London offices.

• Swarm trailer is short, sweet, rather zany

  Hothead games has released a small trailer, showing of the quirkiness of Swarm. We were given a demonstration of the game at PAX, and it looks rather fun, and if you checked out the developer walkthrough of the game we posted last week, you’ll get to see exactly what we saw during the hourly demonstration.

• Blacklight: Tango Down has "trillions" of weapon customization options

  Ignition Entertainment has revealed that there’s a vast amount of different weapon customizations in the multiplayer shooter BlackLight: Tango Down.

• Blacklight: Tango Down has normal multiplayer modes, mini-games

  Ignition Entertainment’s lead designer and project lead for Blacklight: Tango Down, Jared Gerritzen, has revealed some of the multiplayer aspects gamers can expect to delve into once the game is released.

• Ignition announces Deadly Premonition as Xbox 360 exclusive

  Ignition and Marvelous Entertainment announced today a new survival-horror game for Xbox 360 titled Deadly Premonition. The game puts players in the role of FBI Agent Francis York Morgan, who’s trying to solve mysteries while investigating a series of murders in a rural and spooky town called Greenvale. It’s slated for a spring 2010 release, […]

• Indie and other games of interest: Gravity Bear formally announced, Frogger Returns, Shadow of Destiny confirmed

  Another banner week for news regarding indie and other games of interest. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine may make it onto PC after all, 3D Dot Game Heroes is coming to North America, Nostalgia is now available, The Void sounds awesome, King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame has finally gotten a release date, Eufloria has a demo, […]