http://blog.ruffiangames.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:05:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The big day is finally upon us in the UK. Crackdown2 goes on sale tomorrow, Friday 9th July. To help celebrate, a few Ruffians are going to be in attendance at various GAME stores here in Scotland and a little further south in Newcastle & Gateshead. If you fancy meeting some ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=408 After a long hard slog by everyone on both sides of the Atlantic it's an amazing relief and moment of elation to be able to post this. Today, Crackdown 2 went into Certification. The moment was screen captured by our chums in MS Test. This is the culmination of a ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=401 As Graham's already covered the European leg of the preview tour I'll pick up pretty much where he left off... It was a quick pit-stop for me back in Scotland, a frantic day spent unpacking, washing everything and then packing it all up again before collecting Billy and heading to Edinburgh ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=394 Graham Wright, one of our Ruffidesigners recently accompanied the relentless Microsoft PR team for a whistle top tour around Europe helping to show off Crackdown 2 to an excited press. Here's the email he shared with the team once he got his feet back in old Blighty. Hello Everyone Just ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=385 Phew! Just did a little bit of tending to the undernourished garden that is the Ruffian Website. There's weeds everywhere! But now things are a lot less hectic than they have been I've time to give it a little lovin' First up there's a whole new batch of Billy's articles on ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=382 Phew! Long time no bloggin' To be fair to us we have been a tad busy finishing off that pesky Crackdown 2 game. We're nearly there now, just doing the software equivalent of the post coital cigarette. In the meantime I've linked here to the rather lovely Web Comic our guys have ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=377 So today we finally get to announce our release date for Crackdown 2 and that date is July the 9th 2010. It seems a long way away but to get into the stores on time we're currently tweaking a few features but mostly squashing bugs like mofos. July isn't traditionally a ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=360 Hello Ruffian Chums! A little late in posting this to the blog but much better late than never in this case. If you cast you BRAINS back to last November you'll hopefully remember The Grand Ruffian Crackdown 2 Graffiti competition in which we asked you to scribble us something fancy for ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=354 Everyone else is doing it and so are we! So Merry Christmas all, let's celebrate by looking back at what the year gave us in games. It's been a really busy year for Ruffian. We were born, we grew up, and we worked ourselves to (near) death. Somewhere in-between all of ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=333 Wow! Bowled over is probably the best way to describe our feeling on the Crackdown 2 Awesome Graffiti competition. We asked you to use your collective creative genius to draw us some kick arse graffiti that we could despoil Pacific City with. As well as getting their work in the game ... http://blog.ruffiangames.com/?p=328