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Nibel · Jul 2, 2015

More at the source

Yesterday on Reddit, a poster named UndercoverLegend wrote that he snuck into Digital Extremes’ office, took lunch, and started talking to other employees there, who revealed that the studio is working on a card game called Keystone.

Reddit’s mods have since deleted the story—which I’ve independently confirmed is true—but we’ve got it here:

Keystone is "a FPS with cards (like magic the gathering style perhaps)"

Source (Kotaku)

Hot Coldman · Jul 2, 2015

brb off to Valve

Volotaire · Jul 2, 2015

Sometimes, game studios have strict security. Other times, they let random people sneak into their buildings, steal lunch, and find out about unannounced games.

Take, for example, Digital Extremes, the Canada-based company behind Warframe (pictured above). Yesterday on Reddit, a poster named UndercoverLegend wrote that he snuck into Digital Extremes’ office, took lunch, and started talking to other employees there, who revealed that the studio is working on a card game called Keystone.

Reddit’s mods have since deleted the story—which I’ve independently confirmed is true—but we’ve got it here:

More at the link, Jason Schreier

EDIT: lock.

Enter the Dragon Punch · Jul 2, 2015

Someone please go have lunch at Retro

Flandy · Jul 2, 2015

ahahahahahaahahaha
amazing

Xater · Jul 2, 2015

Yeah this is quite the story. Can he check in again next week to see if the security situation changed?

Crimsonclaw111 · Jul 2, 2015

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
Someone please go have lunch at Retro

"It's fucking Donkey Kong, guys!"

Massa · Jul 2, 2015

Is that even legal?

Impeccable · Jul 2, 2015

Card games must now have "-stone" involved.

Zalman · Jul 2, 2015

Just read this. Hilarious.

BronsonLee · Jul 2, 2015

Massa said:
Is that even legal?

Of course not

RoboPlato · Jul 2, 2015

As soon as I saw the title was Keystone, I somehow knew cards would be involved.

But seriously, how many people work at DE that not a single person realized that this guy no one recognized wasn't an employee?

L Thammy · Jul 2, 2015

And on the plane trip home, he sat next to a leader designer from Ubisoft.

Figments · Jul 2, 2015

Welp. I guess it's time to invest in an office bouncer.

Volotaire · Jul 2, 2015

Someone else posted, please lock and ignore.

Alcoholikaust · Jul 2, 2015

UbiSoft Montreal had a 'walk-in' policy a few years ago-and people could just go in and see Splinter Cell Conviction before it had a name-

edit:albeit not really a bad thing-this sounds like a bad thing

Massa · Jul 2, 2015

Seriously, fuck that guy and fuck Kotaku. When even Reddit has higher standards than you for running a story you know something's wrong.

xxracerxx · Jul 2, 2015

Massa said:
Is that even legal?

Grey area.

It's private property but if no one recognized that he was not supposed to be there, just talking to folks is not illegal.

Van · Jul 2, 2015

dat hearthstone train

John Caboose · Jul 2, 2015

Wasn't there a guy that lived at like IBM or something for a month?

Alucrid · Jul 2, 2015

I'm more interested in what they were serving for lunch

Mobius and pet octopus · Jul 2, 2015

Quoting myself from HS thread:

Mobius and pet octopus said:
I just read this article about an unannounced FPS game that... you know, made me think of hearthstone.

http://kotaku.com/guy-sneaks-into-g...m_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow

Keystone... FPS with cards.... dat naming.

Also on second thought, Dirty Bomb is a FPS with loadout cards. Maybe not too similar.

Xater · Jul 2, 2015

RoboPlato said:
As soon as I saw the title was Keystone, I somehow knew cards would be involved.

But seriously, how many people work at DE that not a single person realized that this guy no one recognized wasn't an employee?

Wikipedia says 170 employees. I doubt you know everyone at that size and it's probably not that unusual to see new people getting hired.

StrangeTaco · Jul 2, 2015

If true oh wow that is pretty hilarious. Hope it doesnt make the employees lives too much more annoying with security though.

Eggbok · Jul 2, 2015

Impeccable said:
Card games must now have "-stone" involved.

*Waits for 'Yugioh: Stones of the Pharaoh'*

RSTEIN · Jul 2, 2015

London, Ontario.

Barf.

Timeaisis · Jul 2, 2015

Lol this is hilarious.

Ishida · Jul 2, 2015

Quadraphonic · Jul 2, 2015

Yeah. I see this happening.

Yup. And now more people are going to be inspired. Great...

king grimlock · Jul 2, 2015

L Thammy said:
And on the plane trip home, he sat next to a leader designer from Ubisoft.

and on his way out to his farm he bumped into a 343 employee that was carrying a vhs.

BronsonLee · Jul 2, 2015

Alcoholikaust said:
UbiSoft Montreal had a 'walk-in' policy a few years ago-and people could just go in and see Splinter Cell Conviction before it had a name-

Wtf, really? Ubi gives no fucks

jeffers · Jul 2, 2015

Massa said:
Seriously, fuck that guy and fuck Kotaku. When even Reddit has higher standards than you for running a story you know something's wrong.

really dont get these responses. Why is it so offensive to you? as far as I can see, its their fault for their security policies, and unless there is some trespass sign... *shrugs*

Fergie · Jul 2, 2015

Act like you belong. Always works.

Amusing story.

Orayn · Jul 2, 2015

Just try to blend in and you'll get into all sorts of places you're not supposed to be, with an amazingly high degree of success.

Burn Notice was right.

Jebusman · Jul 2, 2015

Quadraphonic said:
Yeah. I see this happening.

Yup. And now more people are going to be inspired. Great...

Social engineering has existed forever. It's just with the internet around, very few people go the ballsy route of doing it in person anymore.

It's actually pretty simple as well. Just monitoring how people enter and leave work, and a basic knowledge of a company's structure, and you could reasonably bluff your way through it.

Bizazedo · Jul 2, 2015

Schreier's Article said:
They just assumed I belonged there and told me about their secret game. at 6pm people started leaving so I just followed them out and the one guy said See you tomorrow so I agreed.

Canadians are truly the friendliest.

iNvid02 · Jul 2, 2015

hearthstone got people seeing dollar signs everywhere

more importantly though he got a free lunch

RedAssedApe · Jul 2, 2015

Ishida said:

lol...first thought was life invader as well

TheSlySoul · Jul 2, 2015

How did they not notice he was not an employee during lunch? That is pretty bad.

jschreier · Jul 2, 2015

Massa said:
Seriously, fuck that guy and fuck Kotaku. When even Reddit has higher standards than you for running a story you know something's wrong.

Sometimes GAF is hilarious. Reddit's mods pulled the story because they're not journalists. We ran it because we are.

Pandy · Jul 2, 2015

Dunno what the situation is at Digital Extremes, but I know several places (not game studios) that have open cafeteria policies, because it allows the cafeteria to draw customers from neighbouring buildings and bring in a profit (or at least, mitigate losses.)

akidnamededdy · Jul 2, 2015

Massa said:
Seriously, fuck that guy and fuck Kotaku. When even Reddit has higher standards than you for running a story you know something's wrong.

What standards are being violated? Journalists are supposed to report things.

Xater · Jul 2, 2015

I actually had an internship just one floor below Piranha Bytes when they were working on Gothic 2. Of course i saw that.

CronoShot · Jul 2, 2015

Reminds me of this thread

BronsonLee · Jul 2, 2015

jschreier said:
Sometimes GAF is hilarious. Reddit's mods pulled the story because they're not journalists. We ran it because we are.

Jason were you the one who snuck in
Be honest. I already know you have experience in sneaking and fucking

Mupod · Jul 2, 2015

Warframe devs, right?

The hidden problem of being a video game developer in Canada - Canadians will hold the door open for anybody.

Kriken · Jul 2, 2015

Seems like it's lunch time for me, where to eat...

Edit: just got back from Valve, said they're working on 3

new hats

Ferrio · Jul 2, 2015

TheSlySoul said:
How did they not notice he was not an employee during lunch? That is pretty bad.

Too many skins.

OnionPowder · Jul 2, 2015

This might be my favorite leak ever

jschreier · Jul 2, 2015

BronsonLee said:
Jason were you the one who snuck in
Be honest. I already know you have experience in sneaking and fucking

I don't comment on rumors and speculation.

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