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Brave New Gamer’s James Pikover: A post by Ken Feldman of Santa Monica Studios, the developer of God of War 3, stated on the God of War forums that it took their fastest tester 12-13 hours to complete the game. As a game reviewer, I don’t consider myself privy to special knowledge or skills, especially considered to testers, who literally play games 8-10 hours a day, and more often 6-7 days a week. But this is a false statement, as I completed the game in roughly 8 hours, 35 minutes, including the end credits and cutscenes.

This screenshot is of my final auto-save.

And for the naysayers, there’s nothing wrong with brilliance being 8 hours long. Nothing at all. And that’s with fighting every battle and killing every enemy, every time, and with quite a few mistakes. On Normal, as was discussed in the linked thread.

StarCraft 2 Lead Developers Dustin Browder and Chris Sigaty talked to the fans the other night, discussing both their current plans as well as revealing some new stuff that will be available for beta as well as launch and post-launch.

Among other things, the game will be tutorialrific, if there’s such a word. Loads of guides for new players planned.

God of War franchise developer Sony Santa Monica have said that they do not want a lot of spin-offs to the series.

VG247: Epic’s Mark Rein has said that the developer owns the Gears of War IP, and can do with it what it pleases.

Speaking with VG247 at GDC last week, we asked Rein to clarify for some of the more paranoid out there, whether or not Microsoft had some nefarious hand in the developer’s cookie jar.

The recent story that hit the internet about Valve poaching talent from Naughty Dog, has drawn some questions from the gaming community. Mostly attributable to the fact that Naughty Dog, the developer for the critically acclaimed Uncharted series on the Playstation 3, lost talent to Valve, a developer exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC. It turns out this news isn’t so new after all. The developers in question: Vitaliy Genkin, Elan Ruskin, and Alex Vlachos have been with Valve for almost four years.

PSLS writes:

…More recently, Valve apologized to PS3 owners admitting they "didn’t put their best foot forward with the PS3 community", adding "we want to give PS3 owners the best possible PS3 experience".

What better way to give PS3 owners such an experience than by tapping into the talent of one developer that surely has a firm grasp at what it takes to make a great PS3 game. That developer is Naughty Dog, creators of the award-winning Uncharted franchise.

Overheard at the Game Developers Conference: Insomniac Games has become a multiplatform developer. The company, best known for the Ratchet & Clank and Resistance franchises, is allegedly creating cross-platform software for both PS3 and Xbox 360, according to a trusted source who spoke with IGN under the condition of anonymity.

Speaking to IncGamers in an exclusive interview, CEO of Splash Damage, Paul Wedgwood, said that the developer had "set out from the very beginning wanting to design the game that worked well for all three platforms."

Molyneux states "I would love to see the Fable franchise on the PC and I think it would be a truly amazing experience on the PC." Is this enough to spark speculation of the creation of a Windows version of the Xbox favorite, or just the hope of a developer who wants more people to play his game?

TheSixthAxis: "We’ve mentioned this before, of course, but without going into specifics it’s not really worth it to put some poor developer on the line and quote them ad verbatim. Thankfully, though, Develop have done, and confirmed that the Arc will be getting a nunchuck."