Klei Entertainment's Jamie Cheng and Jeffrey Agala were sitting pretty in the Independent Games Festival booth with their latest effort Shank. The reason for this was of course that they have signed on with EA Partners just before the competition, and the pressure to find a publisher was gone. We have a chat about what Shank is all about and how it looks to elevate a genre that hasn't changed much since its introduction.
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Game facts
Shank
Genre
Action
Developer
Klei Entertainment
Publisher
EA
Release date
24 August 2010
Platforms
PC
Xbox 360
XBLA
PSN
PS3
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Editions
Each with its own newsroom and its own scores.
1998
Publishing since
Independently owned for the whole of it.
100%
Hands-on
Written from time with the game, never press material.
1–10
Network Score
Every edition’s score, averaged and shown.