'Split Fiction' director wants video games to bring people together
Josef Fares is passionate about cooperative video games. The Lebanese-Swedish director has built a studio focused on making games that can only be played by two people.
‘Split Fiction’ Is a Mind-Bending 2 Player Triumph: Video Game Review
Split Fiction” pushes the limits of genre and co-op gameplay in an imaginative adventure through two wildly different worlds.
Inside Hazelight at the climax of Split Fiction’s development, you can see how the seeds of a Game of the Year are sown
"The games industry shouldn’t be only about the money," says Josef Fares, drawing a line in the sand regarding how his studio approaches making games.
Review: Split Fiction
Another two-player co-op adventure, Split Fiction follows two aspiring writers as they are transported into the many worlds of their own stories, forced to work together as they find a way to escape the simulation they are now trapped in.
Split Fiction review: Hazelight’s latest is a worthy companion to It Takes Two
Visually, Split Fiction is streets ahead of It Takes Two. While part of its predecessor’s more basic look was down to the fact that the two protagonists were handmade dolls, the environments in Split Fiction are also significantly more detailed than those of Hazelight’s previous game.
Split Fiction doesn’t need to be original when the co-op play is this good
Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesn’t do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain.
Split Fiction review: "Cements Hazelight as the master of co-op games"
It's something that's at the core of Split Fiction – the latest game from co-op specialist Hazelight (It Takes Two, A Way Out) – where corporate greed is literally sucking inspiration directly from creatives.
‘Split Fiction’ Is a Psychedelic Co-op Thrill Ride That Goes Off the Rails
Split Fiction' is even more ambitious than 'It Takes Two,' but its smorgasbord approach dilutes its storytelling
Is Split Fiction One of the Best Co Op Games Ever?
Review of Hazelight's Split Fiction
Split Fiction’s loopy fun co-op will make or break your relationship
When director Josef Fares announced Hazelight Studios’ “next thing,” Split Fiction, at The Game Awards, he prefaced the adventure game as “some next-level shit.” Given Fares’ hat trick of narrative-driven co-op game successes in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons,
I played Split Fiction with my brother, and I found that it's a must-play co-op game
Hazelight Studios follows up It Takes Two with another stellar co-op experience, delivering genre-bending fun in Split Fiction.
Farting pigs, cyber ninjas and sand sharks: how a gaming studio from Stockholm conquered the co-op market
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Split Fiction: the new co-op adventure from Hazelight Studios and Josef Fares that points to be a GOTY contender
Split Fiction, the new co-op game from Hazelight Studios, shows incredible maturity in its gameplay mechanics.
Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'
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Top co-op dev open to returning to single-player experiences. Josef Fares reveals new details of Split Fiction
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Split Fiction: Friend Edition Is the Silliest Game Promo We've Seen in Ages
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Video game auteur’s latest two-player tale is another bizarre hit
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Director Josef Fares is most well known for two things: giving improvised and expletive-laden speeches at The Game Awards, and helming ...