{"id":1290,"date":"2006-11-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"When things don’t go as planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just came back from having dinner with Enric Alvarez, the CEO of Mercury Steam<\/a> and currently hard at work on Clive Barker’s Jericho.<\/a> We shared a roundtable a couple weeks ago in Art Futura, but didn’t have much time to talk there. Great food and even better conversation. Although it’s not been easy for such a small studio, they seem to be doing a great job transitioning into the fabled next-gen.<\/p>\n

So before heading to bed I drop by The Escapist, and see the following stream of news:<\/p>\n

– "Valve has revealed that Episode Two and the included Team Fortress 2 and Portal games have been delayed from February to Summer, 2007."<\/i><\/p>\n

– "Gears of War Has ‘Zero Innovation’ According to EA Executive."<\/i><\/p>\n

– "EA has announced that the PS3 version of NBA Live 07 has been cancelled. Oblivion has officially slipped to next year and Sonic the Hedgehog has also been delayed."<\/i><\/p>\n

– "When asked by the Uk’s official PlayStation magazine about the European PS3 launch scheduled for March, [Phil] Harrison shied away from making any promises."<\/i><\/p>\n

– "PS3 Online Misses the Boat."<\/i><\/p>\n

The games industry is a strange place. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just came back from having dinner with Enric Alvarez, the CEO of Mercury Steam and currently hard at work on Clive Barker’s Jericho. We shared a roundtable a couple weeks ago in Art Futura, but didn’t have much time … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}