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Former HTC designer Scott Croyle has left Razer's Nextbit
We haven't yet seen Razer's debut smartphone, but the team behind it is bidding farewell to an exec that played a crucial role back in its early days. Scott Croyle, who quit HTC as the Senior Vice President of Design, has left Nextbit as of September after a three-year run. His new gig? Going back to his design consultancy roots with the formation of Attic, a San Francisco-based studio covering hard goods (which obviously include consumer electronics), soft goods and furniture. Croyle is joined by former One & Co colleague Jony Ive Daniel Hundt, who was the lead designer of the Incredible, Incredible 2, Desire 816, Desire 820 and more. Prior to HTC's acquisition, One & Co was also known for designing Microsoft's Arc Keyboard plus Arc Mouse, as well as the original Amazon Kindle.
Drakensang website opens eye
German publisher dtp entertainment has announced the launch of a new website for Drakensang: The Dark Eye. While it's likely that the upcoming PC RPG is well off your radar, what's particularly interesting is that the game is based in Fantasy Production's Dark Eye universe, the same used for Attic Entertainment's Realms of Arkania franchise from the 90s. The Arkania games make up some of the most difficult and taxing RPGs in existence, where characters could just as easily die from foot rot from wandering the wilderness without shoes as they could from being gored by an ogre. Unfortunately, while Drakensang will be set in the same universe, it is not considered by the devs to be a sequel to the Arkania games – though this won't stop us from re-creating our party from Realms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva and playing Drakensang through the magic of self-delusion when the game ships in 2008.
