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• Deus Ex & Epic Mickey designer calls out Uncharted and Heavy Rain for being more movies than games

  According to one veteran designer, games like Uncharted, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and Heavy Rain are all not doing what video game stories should do; collaborative storytelling.

• Deus Ex: take a look at original game 15 years later in this Let's Play video

  The creators of the original Deus Ex title have decided to take a trip down memory lane and give the game a go 15 years after release.

• Warren Spector feels VR gaming is a fad, but "bring on" Augmented Reality

  Warren Spector has said he’s consistent in the belief that VR is a fad for consumers other than some hardcore gamers.

• Spector puts down rumours of troubled Epic Mickey development

  Epic Mickey seemed like a surprising follow-up project from the man who made Deus Ex, but Warren Spector has put down rumours of a difficult relationship with Disney.

• Half-life episode from Junction Point would have featured a magnet gun

  Half-life seems to be on near permanent hold, but at least we can glean some insight into what might once have been.

• Deus Ex 3 was in development at some point - plot and development details

  Deus Ex 3 was in development at one point after Invisible War came out, and before Human Revolution was even a thing.

• Tomb Raider, Dishonored & Warren Spector to lead BAF Game 2013

  Tomb Raider & Dishonored and an appearance from Warren Spector will lead BAF Game 2013, an event that celebrates the artistry of videogames as part of the Bradford Animation Festival in November.

• Junction Point worked on some "Half-Life stuff" at some point

  In the book “Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play” which was released in 2012, Junction Point’s Warren Spector states that at one point before Disney bought the firm, it was “working on some Half-Life stuff.

• Next-gen systems as entertainment devices is "a perilous idea," - Spector

  Warren Spector feels the idea of next-gen systems being entertainment devices rather than gaming consoles is “a perilous idea.”

• Warren Spector wants to make small, detailed worlds

  Deus Ex creator Warren Spector would rather make a game world “an inch wide and a mile deep” than “a mile wide and an inch deep”.

• Warren Spector and Blizzard COO to create gaming academic academy

  Warren Spector and Blizzard COO Paul Sams are collaborating with The University of Texas at Austin to found the school’s first academic video game program led by industry veterans. The Denius-Sams Gaming Academy will open its doors Fall 2014.

• Spector: journalists and players may be "just mediocre" at assessing success

  In a lengthy musing on how we should measure success, Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector has cast aspersions on the ability of critics and gamers to judge whether games are any good or not.

• Wolfenstein: The New Order - Warren Spector apologizes over comments

  Bethesda has released the debut video for Wolfenstein: The New Order to the masses, now that the exclusivity period has ended on it. Get it below. Meanwhile, Warren Spector has apologized to fans over comments he made regarding the game yesterday.

• Spector: not all games have to be "intellectual", but some should be

  There’s room for the big dumb action games we love and more thoughtful, challenging releases, Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector has argued.

• Spector: console hardware is "frozen" while mobile & tablet continue to evolve

  Veteran developer Warren Spector has suggested in a new column that next-gen home consoles will face competition from the home entertainment space, and that console tech is stuck in a frozen rut, while mobile and tablet devices continue to evolve.

• Gaming content is "stultifyingly narrow", says Spector

  Games are stuck on the same old material, Warren Spector has argued, and the industry needs individual role models to break free of action’s stranglehold on art.

• Warren Spector to write a monthly column for GI International

  GI International has announced Warren Spector will be writing a monthly column for the site. Spector’s column will focus on “serious subjects about the industry and will pose questions that Spector himself may not have the answers to.” The first column will be posted this week.

• Lollipop Chainsaw and its ilk "should just not be made", says Spector

  Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector dropped a heck of a flamebait quote in his DICE Summit 2013 presentation, saying games like Grasshopper Manufacture’s Lollipop Chainsaw “should just not be made”.

• Warren Spector farewells Junction Point

  Junction Point founder Warren Spector has written a heartfelt obituary for the developer, which was confirmed to have been shut down today.