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Defense Grid 2 is better with two players

Defense Grid 2, the follow-up to 2008's Defense Grid: The Awakening, introduces multiplayer to the tower defense series. The original game debuted on Windows PC and later launched on Xbox Live...

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The hidden world of Steam trading

In February 2014, Roberto Ranieri lost a small fortune in hats. Ranieri was trading hats in the popular game Team Fortress 2. It was his second time trading in-game items for real-world money....

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Defense Grid 2 and the refinement of tower defense

Hidden Path's Defense Grid 2 builds upon the well-established, but consistently addictive tower defense formula that has engrossed players for more than a decade. The crowdfunding-backed strategy...

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Why building the game is only the beginning

Something strange happens during the first few minutes of the meeting. This meeting starts, as most meetings do, with witty banter and people goofing around, settling into place and...

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Defense Grid 2 playable for the first time on Xbox One at PAX East 2014

Defense Grid 2, Hidden Path Entertainment's upcoming tower defense game, will be playable by the public for the first time on Xbox One and Windows PC at PAX East 2014. Defense Grid 2 charges...

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How game creators find the fun

I'm sitting in a restaurant Bellevue, Wash. with two of the founders of Hidden Path Entertainment and the lead designer of Defense Grid 2. It is late February 2014. We're here to talk about why D...

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What's it like to embed with a game developer?

Welcome to Friends List! If this is your first episode, Friends List is a daily web series where we have one-on-one talks about a single question related to video games. The goal is to give both...

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Defense Grid 2 coming to PS4 and Xbox One

Defense Grid 2, the successfully crowd-funded sequel to strategy-meets-tower defense game Defense Grid: The Awakening, will release to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems, developer Hidden Path...

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When a successful game is a failure

The founders of Hidden Path Entertainment tell the story now only rarely. It's hard to get it out of them. In fact, in almost a year of building trust, conducting closed-door interviews, attending...

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To delay or to crunch: The making of Defense Grid 2, part four

It's a Monday in December 2013 and I'm in Bellevue, Wash. to visit Hidden Path Entertainment. Since May I've been following the development of Defense Grid 2 from start to finish, interviewing...