Shadow Complex May Get Downloadable Content
It's probably fair to say that Shadow Complex has been the most buzzed-about and best reviewed of Microsoft's "Summer of Arcade" releases. So given that, it only makes sense that Chair would be looking for more ways to bank on its popularity. Gamasutra reports that the game may see downloadable content packs in the future. In fact, creative director Donald Mustard all but promised it.
Asked about the possibility of adding extra modes, Mustard joked, "man, you're going to make me tip my hand too much." After his public relations representative pointed out that he didn't have to answer the question, he responded: "I think that's a really compelling idea -- how about that?" It's not exactly crack detective work to deduce that Chair has something up their sleeves, but there's no telling exactly what the additional content could be. New game modes to compliment the Proving Grounds are one possibility, but Chair could surprise us and let players take on the game as a different character as well.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
