Category Archives: work

Geometry Wars: Galaxies Announced for Nintendo Systems

Today we announced Geometry Wars: Galaxies, a new project I’ve been working on for Nintendo systems this Fall. The announcement was “leaked” in Nintendo Power days before the official announcement, causing the fan community to go wild with speculation, and driving up our diggs.

Ign.com (May 25, 2007)
Front Page Announcement, Screenshots
GameSpot.com (May 25, 2007)
Front Page Placement […]

The Week of World in Conflict for February 9, 2007

Another busy week at the office has come to an end. Look for some new films and announcements from us very soon. Until then, these are the latest WIC headlines.

Our third monthly World in Conflict Newsletter went out earlier this week. Are you on our mailing list?
The World in Conflict team continues to grow […]

Dean Takahashi Previews World in Conflict

The big kahuna of Silicon Valley consumer tech, Dean Takahashi (Opening the Xbox, etc), posted a preview of World in Conflict in the San Jose Mercury News blog.
“It’s one of the prettiest and most intense RTS games I’ve ever seen. If this one doesn’t get you excited about playing games on PCs, you’re very […]

World in Conflict - CES 2007 Trailer

The World in Conflict trailer we debuted in the Microsoft Games for Windows booth was released online today.

In World in Conflict players defend their country, their hometown, and their families in the face of Soviet-led World War III invasion. We used Cold War-era stock footage to bring the audience back to the time when […]

World’s Greatest Videogame Company

The “World’s Greatest” television program recently featured Sierra Entertainment as the “World’s Greatest” videogame company. I appear in the piece alongside a dozen or so of my co-workers about half way through. The video was recorded during a World in Conflict meeting.

Report from CES 2007

My quick report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
On Sunday night the World in Conflict team was invited to Bill Gates’ CES Keynote. It was a thrill for everyone to see our game included up there on the big screen.
Afterwards we headed to the Games for Windows cocktail party. It was […]

Even Better Than The Real Thing

On a recent trip to Malmo digital Guy and Cece meet the real thing.

In San Jose for NVIDIA “Reality Redefined”

I was in San Jose earlier this week for NVIDIA’s “Reality Redefined” event. What a whirlwind.
They’d picked World in Conflict to go on stage between Todd Hollenshead (id Software) and Cevat Yerli (Crytek) during the keynote — it doesn’t get much bigger than that!

NVIDIA had staged the event to introduce their new GeForce 8800 […]

World in Conlict is Tops on GameSpot

What a way to return from vacation! World in Conflict is the featured game on the homepage of GameSpot.com, the world’s #1 video and computer game website.
Check out our exclusive interview and gameplay video premiere.
GameSpot - Homepage Originally uploaded by guywilliamwelch.com.

Joint Task Force Ships to Stores in North America

Joint Task Force ships to stores in North America today. I’ve been working on the title since Sierra signed the deal with HD Publishing to bring it to market.
The team created a wonderful trailer for us to release this week.

Approval was a challenge as the ESRB requested several scenes be removed. You can see below […]