Interviews

Sig Hansen Talks Up Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm

Sig Hansen skippers the Northwestern on Discovery Channel’s hit reality series, World’s Deadliest Catch, which is the summer’s top cable hit. During the past two years, when not risking his life and that of his crew hunting for crab in the Bering Sea, he’s been working on a video game that simulates that experience.

Hansen co-founded a development studio to create the game. Das Gamer caught up with the captain, who enters the fourth season of the show this winter (the series airs during the warm summer months Hansen is off), to talk about his new venture and basically figure out why anyone would make a video game about pulling bugs out of a deadly body of water to fuel the needs of Red Lobster-loving Americans. Guess it can’t be any weirder than Big Buck Hunter. Hit the jump for the full interview. Read the rest of this entry »

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Web Video

Have The Crab Boat Shows Gone Too Far?

Sniper Studios released a new trailer for an unnamed Wii project. It’s clear however that the game involves a murder and…crab fishing. Isn’t this going a little far? The crab craze started with an article by some participatory journalist (we’ll just guess Sebastian Junger) going out to go fishing with the crab boats. Then came the requisite reality shows like Deadliest Catch and Rock of Love. Well, only one of those shows involve boats but we’re guessing they both feature crabs of some sort. Read the rest of this entry »

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