Media Update

@Update CCP finally has uploaded the official versions of all three videos. The Youtube playlist and this website has been updated accordingly. Enjoy the HD versions!
Also some small new bits have emerged from several interviews. Go check out the updated summary with all the facts we know so far.
One of the most interesting ones is following quote over at PC Gamer:

PC Gamer: But it’s going to look like a standard MMO interface, right?

Reynir Hardarson: It’s a bit more poetic actually.

PC Gamer: Poetic?

“It’s not going to look like a game, it’s going to look, feel and play like a movie,” explains Reynir. “So the look and feel is very film noir and the interface elements are more like actual objects or something dream-like. We’re actually thinking “what is it?” These are perpetuating emotional states or actual items. And it’s not really fitting to have an abstract UI.”

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“It’s a highly emotional thing,” explains Reynir. “It’s about vampires who understand people, especially mortals. It’s about reading emotional states, feeding from a mortal, drinking his blood. And at the moment he dies you get flashes of emotions and memories. It’s going to be portrayed in that way.”

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The media page has been updated with about 30 new (beautiful) artworks, some ingame screenshots and of course the updated videos. Go check it out!

The full Fanfest presentation as well as two “fake” teasers for a direction the team wasn’t interested in are on there too.

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Now let’s wait for more at the end of the year, enjoy spring – and go experience Journey by thatgamecompany! – One of the most beautiful, unique, compelling, exciting and memorable interactive work of art I have ever played. Don’t read anything about it and experience it in one sitting (It’s about 90 minutes).

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