http://shankgame.com The Official Shank Blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:31:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Head over to GameTrailers for a few more videos, including a co-op Boss playthrough and an interview. We're also regularly answering questions on facebook (requires sign in for age-gating reasons) and twitter, so head on over if you'd like up-to-date info! http://shankgame.com/video/shank-co-op-trailer/ So it quietly leaked here and there, but today we officially announced that we included a local co-op campaign to Shank! It was actually a pretty long process for us to make co-op work -- we didn't want to just force a lame multiplayer into the storyline for the feature ... http://shankgame.com/news/shank-backstory-told-in-co-op-campaign/ At long last our release date has been announced: Playstation Network: August 24, 2010 Xbox LIVE Arcade: August 25, 2010 PC: Fall 2010 Price point: 1200 Microsoft Points / $14.99 I've literally been asked everyday about the release date, and it's been killer waiting for the announcement, and now I get to play the other ... http://shankgame.com/news/shank-release-date-announced/ These are the images we've provided for Microsoft for the Marketplace. Some we've already seen, some are brand new! [caption id="attachment_331" align="alignleft" width="530" caption="A picture worth a thousand words."][/caption] [gallery link="file" orderby="post_name"] http://shankgame.com/art/xbox-live-marketplace-screenshots/ Hey neat! We were just nominated as "Best New Game (Not a Sequel)" of E3 2010 by Kotaku. http://shankgame.com/art/shank-nominated-for-best-new-game-of-e3-by-kotaku/ A few highlights of Shank at E3: Shank is nominated as Best Action Game at E3 by IGN: Hand Cam gameplay and great comments from Giant Bomb Shankin' Preview from Kotaku More coming later! We just finished our interviews for the show, and literally every single one seemed to end with cheering and clapping. ... http://shankgame.com/art/shank-at-e3/ Here's our E3 trailer! DIY Gamer did a great write-up on Shank. I smiled when reading the article because it really hit home -- our studio made Shank because we're passionate about it, and Marianne came on early in development to write the story because she loved ... http://shankgame.com/art/shank-e3-trailer-and-write-up/ So today the announcement finally came out that our story is written by Marianne Krawczyk -- also the writer of God of War! Marianne and I met at GDC in 2008 at the Speaker Party -- at the time, Klei was still working on our previous title, but we got to ... http://shankgame.com/news/god-of-war-writer-pens-shank/ [caption id="attachment_284" align="aligncenter" width="397" caption="Shank Art by Jeff Agala"][/caption] Hey All,  We are now have a official Shank Facebook page.  It will be updated often up by Jamie and myself. Like it! Peace, Jeff http://shankgame.com/general/shank-on-facebook/ Finally back from PAX Boston, and I'm damn glad to be home. Between GDC, PAX, the Vancouver Olympics and other miscellaneous travels, I'm totally ready to just get my head down and finish this game. I did over 2 dozen interviews this last weekend! Here are some of the early highlights: GameTrailers ... http://shankgame.com/news/coverage-from-pax-boston/