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 lot of very hard and [...]

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 airport, onwards to Heathrow and [...]

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 thought I would send a quick [...]

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 game design that he writes [...]

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 put together. It’s the first [...]