Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Despite our best efforts, the Gillenbeast is not dead. He simply swaddled himself in a cocoon and then later emerged, covered in red wine, in his next phase. We believe this might be a “mature” phase Gillen, as he he’s been debating issues raised by Medal Of Honor and Hey Baby with independent current affairs folks GRITtv, as well as making a large nest our of pulped comic books. I’ve embedded his segment of the GRITtv show below. Relevant arguments are posed.

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Videogamer.com drop us a line to inform me that the fifteen-minute documentary they put together about the Introversion story is now online. While well-made, to be honest, there’s little here which anyone who’s followed Introversion won’t already know. It doesn’t really touch on major lows like the Darwinia’s protracted development or highs like their IGF fuck-publishers victory speech, but is a charming recapitulation of their history and you do get a sense of what all the Introversion folk are actually like, as well as what motivates them. I’m (er) also in it as an occasional brief talking head, desperately trying to not speak at eight-million-miles-an-hour and wave my hands all over the place. The guitar propped up in the background isn’t mine, by the way. Go see it here.