“Warframe” is the crowning achievement of Canadian development studio, Digital Extremes. Prior to bringing “Warframe” to open Beta testing in 2013, Digital Extremes was primarily known as a work-for-hire studio, which bigger publishers or other studios could contract – cheaply and half-assedly – for development assistance with other low-budget projects. While it started up way back in 1993 as a pet project for studio head James Schmalz, Digital Extremes produced little of note in its first 20 years, outside of the dreadful ‘Unreal’ series of Arena FPSes, made in collaboration with Epic Games. In a lot of ways, “Warframe” in 2013 was to Digital Extremes what “Final Fantasy” in 1987 was to Squaresoft: A last-gasp effort by a struggling, floundering videogame studio t... |
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