After David Jaffe posted a shot of an internal email he sent, details leaked about a new car game he's working on. He may have blurred the pertinent details, but there's always someone with mad photoshop skills out there who could work around it - to some extent at least. What they managed to unfog leads to a car game, now speculated to be a new Twisted Metal game.

David Jaffe, Peter Molyneux, Greg Zeschuk, Cliff Bleszinski - four of the most creative minds in gaming industry share their thoughts on the four things that sell: sex, violence, ratings, and gaming design. Get their take on the the consumers' perception, the fun, the taboos, and the necessary.

Let's play a little association game. When I say "men in video game development," whose names come first to mind? Kojima? Jaffe? Miyamoto? The list goes on. Now how about if I say "women in video games development?" You probably thought of Jade Raymond then... blank. Kind of imbalanced ain't it? That was the point of Emily Newton-Dunn, former producer of the Burnout series. She remarks that there is a gender imbalance in the industry and that there should be more women making games. Full story after the "read more" link below.

 

David Jaffe is a pretty cool guy. Not because he's crazy enough to create something like God of War or Twisted Metal, but because his blog entries put a smile on our faces. His latest  entry is all about the E3 experience, something far different than it was years ago.

Like some guys in the industry (even Hideo Kojima), Jaffe obviously isn't fond of how E3 is like today. "E3 was so lame this year," he posted on his blog. To be fair, he found it cool that getting hands on games is less messy this time, but he expressed his anger at the event quite clearly.

Another that he finds noteworthy during E3 was actually meeting with Nintendo's big man, Shigeru Miyamoto. His thoughts on it:

Maybe I should have gone: 'You have made some of the best games- hell, the best pieces of entertainment EVER but since MARIO 64, I have not loved anything you have done? I have respected all you have brought to the industry and world, especially in the last POST-Mario 64 years but for me personally, none of it floated my boat? But still dude, thanks so so so much for pretty much creating the modern incarnating of this industry?"

And then he would have just looked at me and said: 'You are fat. Use Wii Fit for 2 months and call me back. Bye fatso'

As you would've guessed, it didn't go exactly as planned. Jaffe was still happy that he got a picture with him, which you can see above. What they talked about, we wouldn't know. When the man behind the most brutal titles meets the man known worldwide to make family games, we can't even imagine what would happen.