We sent Brendan to the Hawken press event in London, and there he caught up with Mark Long, boss at Meteor, the company responsible for publishing the F2P mech combat game. From there it was a journey into alternative business models, transmedia experiments, live-action mech-movies, rivalry between mech games, and the appeal of adult diapers.
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Interview: Hawken Publisher CEO On Mechs, F2P, VR
By Brendan Caldwell on November 29th, 2012.
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