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[SURGEdude]

Came out at a bad time so I'd love to see more of it. It's the best Bioshock if you ask me.

 

[Nuke Soda]

Yeahhh, we're going to need you to move your desk into the basement.

But sir there is a serious rad roach problem down there.

 

[SURGEdude]

But sir there is a serious rad roach problem down there.

That's what VATS is for!

 

[FoneBone]

Me too. It's never included in the Steam sales for some reason.

On sale now for less than $6: https://uk.gamesplanet.com/game/singularity--1910-1?ref=itad

 

[GavinUK86]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbE2SMCK5Q0

"He watched Kung Fu Panda 5 fucking times and he thinks he knows kung fu"

HAHA

 

[JohnnyFootball]

They really should remaster the first game and give it a new lease on life.

If successful, it could fund a sequel.

Much needed.

 

[tattooed_dwarf]

Hopefully they still get ti make some original games also.

 

[Mr. Tibbs]

ISTHMUS posted an interview with Brian Raffel about the studios's first 25 years.

...you realized you were going to have to lay off some employees?
“This was tough, clearly my hardest and darkest time. During my first 18-plus years of Raven, all we ever did was increase our head count. But with the hard hit to the 2008-2009 economy, our industry changed dramatically. Instead of working on three games at the same time, we found ourselves needing to tighten our belts and refocus our business. I have found over the years that as a company you have to move or die. This was another one of those adjustments, like switching from the Amiga to the PC, to the console, or from pixels to polygons, or motion-capture animations. This adjustment was personally hugely difficult for me, but it was an unfortunate part of the business world. We shrunk a bit, but have now grown back to a higher head count than we had previously. We’ve also taken on a sister studio in Shanghai, so we’ve recovered and adjusted to be stronger than we ever were before.”

...you learned that Chris Rhinehart and five other key Raven employees were leaving to form Human Head in 1997?
“Steve and I both saw the wisdom of aligning our studio with a strategic partner like Activision. We knew they would allow us to take Raven to the next level and let us focus on the games. The Human Head group wasn’t interested in being owned by a publisher. I understand that they enjoyed working together and controlling their own destiny, but it didn’t soften the blow. I thought that if they stayed awhile they’d see Activision wasn’t an invasive company [and] that they’d let us remain true to our culture under their independent studio model. But the day we announced our decision, the Human Head group went off for an early lunch. I could tell something was not sitting right. Then they all drove back together and wanted to talk to me. Not a great day.”

 

[Rap2thaMoon]

It's sad what Activision has done to them, Singularity, Wolfenstein and Wolverine are really good games, especially Singularity. I hope that in the future the studio can creat there own games again.