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Exclusive Interview: Lumo Game Developer Gareth Noyce

One of the great things about the current and previous generations of video games is that you can not only get tons of old games for new systems, but you can also get new games in old genres. Case in point: Lumo, an isometric arcade adventure being made by Triple Eh? Ltd., which Rising Star Games will release on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Vita, and PC this April. To find out how it fully embraces the spirit of those ’80s games, but with modern tenets, I spoke to Game Director Gareth Noyce as he played his way through the opening rooms.

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Exclusive Interview: Eagle In Exile Author Alan Smale

In speculative fiction, the author tries to figure out what would really happen if a historical event went differently. Y’know, like what the world of the 1200s would be like if the Roman Empire never fell. Such is the premise of Alan Smale’s Eagle In Exile (hardcover, digital), the sequel to his 2015 novel Clash Of Eagles, and the second part of a planned trilogy. In the following interview, Smale talks about the impetus for this series, where the new novel fits in, and why it’s not about what would happen if the Romans had a space program.

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Exclusive Interview: Bigfootloose And Finn Fancy Free Author Randy Henderson

While the number of serious fantasy novels for adults grows every day, the number that don’t take themselves so seriously is, well, okay, it’s also growing, just not as fast. Which is why we need more writers like Randy Henderson, the author of the funny fantasy novel Finn Fancy Necromancy and its newly released sequel, Bigfootloose And Finn Fancy Free (hardcover, digital). Though in talking to Henderson about the new book, it’s clear his intention wasn’t to just make you laugh, to amuse you, to be a clown, what do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

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Exclusive Interview: Rocketbirds 2 Evolution Creator Sian Yue Tan

No matter how much people may love your game, there’s always things they wish were better. But while good game developers listen to this critiques, Sian Yue Tan — the creator of the 2D, side-scrolling, bird-brained shooter Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken — actually made a list. And checked it twice. And then proceeded to fix everything on it. The result? Rocketbirds 2 Evolution (coming soon to PlayStation 4, Vita) which, from the way Tan explains it, sounds less like a sequel and more like a rebirth.

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Exclusive Interview: Wondershot Creative Director Aurelien Loos

Back in the day, before every video game console was connected to the Internet, people who wanted to play games together actually had to sit next to each other. I know, crazy, right? Well, the cartoony, top-down action game Wondershot — which is coming to PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam on February 18th and Xbox One on the 19th — is bringing that kind of action back. While it does have a single-player challenge mode, the centerpiece of the game is its multiplayer, which is local-only. To explain how it all works, I spoke to the Leikir Studio’s Aurelien Loos, the game’s Creative Director, as we and some pals played a few rounds.

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Exclusive Interview: Rocketbirds 2 Evolution Executive Producer Ted Lange

The last thing you’d ever say to John Rambo is that he’s a chicken. But in the side-scrolling shooter Rocketbirds Evolution, a sequel to the similar Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, the lead character is actually a Rambo-like chicken. Well, rooster, actually, but I ain’t going to call his a cock. With the game coming soon to the PlayStation 4 and Vita, both of which will support both cross-buy and cloud saves, I sat down with Ted Lange, Executive Producer at Reverb Triple XP, to play the game and to talk about how this sequel improves upon the original.

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Exclusive Interview: Underwater Author Marisa Reichardt

As an old adult, I usually think young adult novels are not for me. But I’m beginning to rethink that the position after talking to writer Marisa Reichardt about her debut novel Underwater (hardcover, digital). While she says the novel is YA because it has, “A teenage protagonist facing teenage protagonist issues while embracing the truth of teenage emotion,” she goes on to explain why the operative word in the phrase “young adult” may not be the first one.

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Exclusive Interview: In Constant Fear Author Peter Liney

With In Constant Fear (hardcover, paperback, digital), writer Peter Liney brings to close the dystopian trilogy he began in 2014 with The Detainee and continued the following year with Into The Fire. But while he knows it’s time to go, he also says, “it’s with a genuinely heavy heart that I sign off on this trilogy.”

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Exclusive Interview: Sword Of Honor Author David Kirk

Musashi Miyamoto is regarded as one of, if not the greatest samurai of all time. But because he lived in the 15th and 16th centuries, much of his life has slipped into legend. Which is why a number of authors, movie directors, and video game developers to add to his legacy through fiction. One of the most recent of which is author David Kirk, whose new historical novel, Sword Of Honor (hardcover, digital) is the second in an ongoing series that started with 2013’s Child Of Vengeance. Though in talking to Kirk about Sword Of Honor, it seems he’s more interested in the “historical” part than the “novel.”

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