Edge: Everything goes black when you boot Joe Danger for the first time. That was how the game launched, on our retail PS3 and across the US. The screen went black, and stayed black.
It was apt. Apt that it was midnight when we saw it for the first time. Apt that the four of us were in the office, once more surrounded by breakfast bowls and takeaway cartons. And it was particularly apt that the game looked properly fucked.
“It’s never done this before.”
“The lights still flashing.”
“Might be a retail PS3 thing.”
“Yeah, maybe all games just do nothing.”
I’d thought about this day, every day, for two years. Whenever I did, I pictured champagne and celebrations. Instead we had cider and sheer terror.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the letter "broke our hearts and made us want to set things right". It has now been relaunched on iOS.
What an amazing story, Joe Danger was a fantastic game and hearing about these kinds of stories makes me much happier than hearing adults bicker back and forth about which animations a game is re-using and the amount of pixels on the screen.
This is what gaming is really about and I feel like some people just tend to forget that
Hardcore Gamer: The twelfth entry of the Humble Mobile Bundle is now available and offers a lot of variety for very little money.
Hardcore Gamer: Joe Danger is a fantastic stunt racer, and now it has been released for the OUYA.
