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Das Gamer Too Human Caption Contest

Too Human has stirred up more shit than a cyclone in a trailer park. Das Gamer has had the chance to interview the creator behind the game, Denis Dyack, with the Penthouse Pet reporters back in San Francisco and cover his story a few places in between. Now you get a chance to win a copy of Too Human and find out why a game about cybernetic Viking space gods has got the gaming world’s collective panty in a wad. Hit the jump and caption the photo below. The contest closes Wednesday August 27 at 3pm eastern. Read the rest of this entry »

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News

Denis Dyack Picked A Fight With NeoGaf To Prove A Point

I wanted to fit “like a dockwhore” into the headline but it wouldn’t fit on one line. In an interview with Videogaming247, the creator of Too Human (on sale today) explained his reasoning behind posting on NeoGaf. Warned, assumably by his co-workers, not to post on any forum because “Forums don’t have any affect,” Dyack set out to prove the opposite. By posting on NeoGaf back in June stating, “Too Human will be out in August and I think there are going to be a lot of trolls crying here.” Read the rest of this entry »

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New This Week: Games Where Your Money Used To Be

Too Human
Xbox 360
On sale: August 19
Denis Dyack, president of Silicon Knights and the man behind Too Human, already explained the back story on his new title to our Penthouse Pets, Jaime Lynn and Heather Vandeven. And our hands on preview of the game left a great impression. But this week gamers get the final word on the hype surrounding Too Human.
Buy your copy of Too Human.

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Das Gamer Video

Denis Dyack In Bed With The Penthouse Pets, Part 4

The final segment in the Denis Dyack series of interviews conducted by our intrepid and scantily clad Penthouse Pets features the president of Silicon Knights giving his opinion on the state of the video game industry. Who the hell needs the governor of Texas when you have Double D and a pair of porn stars? Hit the jump to watch the video interview and find out how Dyack plans to turn his company into an even bigger player in the games industry and why the trends in mergers and acquisitions is a repeat of the 40s-era film industry. Or you could just watch it for the girls. Das Gamer is not here to judge. Read the rest of this entry »

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Das Gamer Video

Denis Dyack, In Bed With The Penthouse Pets, Part 3

That’s right, we got more Denis Dyack than we know what to do with. In this segment (number three out of a total four) Dyack touches on how he got into the games industry and offers some advice to the would be coders out there chugging suicide-sized cans of Red Bull while throwing together the next Geometry Wars. Turns out Dyack, as a member of his collegiate wrasslin’ team, crossed over from the world of athletics into computer science. “I made a metamorphosis from a jock that worked out six hours a day,” says Dyack, “to a scholar that worked on a computer 24 hours a day.” If you subscribe to Playboy’s description of E3 it’s almost as if Dyack is the walking embodiment of the tradeshow. Uh…just hit the jump to watch the video. Read the rest of this entry »

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Das Gamer Video

Denis Dyack In Bed With The Penthouse Pets, Part 2

Silicon Knights head honcho and the man behind Too Human, Denis Dyack, has some genuinely interesting takes on technology. In his mind technological advances usually come at a very unexpected price. Hit the jump to catch the video of Dyack with our intrepid and half-naked reporters as he talks about why people should question new technology instead of running headlong into it and why feminists have a big bone to pick with sewing machines (and not just Fat Princess). Read the rest of this entry »

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Das Gamer Video

Denis Dyack Explains Too Human To Our Penthouse Pets, Part 1

Microsoft will release Denis Dyack’s opus, Too Human, in a couple of weeks. Which makes it a great time to unveil the last segments in our In Bed With The Pets series from GDC 2008. In this video Dyack climbs into bed with the lingerie-clad Heather Vandeven and Jaime Lynn to explain how he decided on using the Norse mythology as a backstory, contemplates the human soul and does an admirable job of using phrases like “upgraded body parts” without breaking eye contact with the ladies. Hit the jump to watch the video. Read the rest of this entry »

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Preview

Hands On Time With Too Human

With a botched initial E3 showing to going more or less underground this past March, Silicon Knights has finally released a preview build of their upcoming action/RPG Too Human. Getting to play a quick demo version of the game during GDC isn’t always the easiest way to tackle a deep experience such as Too Human, so I put the preview version through its paces in both single player and cooperatively to see how well Silicon Knights has progressed. Read the rest of this entry »

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