Interviews

Turbine’s executive producer Kate Paiz talks the future of LOTRO with TotalPCGaming

He’s the quiet man, the one in the background.

“Arguably the most innovative, most in-depth and, for its time, the most advanced role-playing game series there had ever been.

Is Rome: Total War 2 on the horizon? Creative Assembly studio director Mike Simpson is playing his cards close to his chest…

Peter Molyneux has announced Fable III but there’s still no sign of a PC release for the series’ sequels.

Charles Cecil is British gaming’s secret weapon and the point-and-click adventure supremo talks conspiracy, fact and fiction exclusively with Total PC Gaming…

When Harvey Smith talks, you listen; partly because he’s got a low, soft voice but mostly due to his upward career trajectory. Smith was groomed by good people, worked on some of the most ground-breaking games ever created – and is a big Mark Millar fan, too. That’s someone well worth respecting. Add to the fact he’s really good friends with Warren Spector, was lead designer on Deux Ex and project lead on its sequel, Invisible War….

Development legend David Braben spills it on games, the universe and everything. Yes, even Elite IV…

It may have incurred the wrath of 20,000 gamers, but the announcement of a follow-up to Valve’s survival horror co-op title Left 4 Dead has nevertheless got us excited. We sit down with writer and project lead, Chet Faliszek…

Rebellion may have shocked gamers with the rather poor ShellShock 2: Blood Trails, but it’s ready to shoot its way back to the top, as boss Jason Kingsley reveals…

He used to play truant from school, but now he’s hugely successful, Paul Wedgwood is giving advice to students. The mobile phone on the table in the darkened surroundings of Nottingham’s Gatecrasher nightclub lights up a corner of the room every now and then, giving us status updates on Paul’s journey north. “Oh no,” comes a cry. “It looks like he’s stuck in traffic.”

His name’s Cakebread. Stephen Cakebread. And he’s a man with a licence to thrill. He’s sitting down on a comfortable sofa drinking Coke, wearing a grey untucked t-shirt and baggy faded jeans. There are no vodka martinis to hand (at least none that can be seen) and we assume the dinner jacket is back at the hotel. And yet like Bond – that’s James Bond, if you hadn’t guessed – he has a secret weapon beneath his laid-back everyday man veneer…