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Years after viral Game Awards rant, ‘It Takes Two’ director says he doesn’t hate the Oscars
You can never accuse Josef Fares, director of the critically acclaimed, 2021 co-op action-adventure “It Takes Two,” of blowing his time in the spotlight. Even with just 30 seconds of allotted ...
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Raised in a Civil War, He Makes Games to Bring People Together
Josef Fares, whose family fled Lebanon for Sweden in the 1980s, began his career as a filmmaker before pouring his creative energy into cooperative video games. By Harold Goldberg Within a modern ...
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Josef Fares is bragging about how good Hazelight's next game is going to be (again): 'A lot of people say I'm cocky, but it's impossible to not be cocky when you have a game ...
and the creative lead and founder Josef Fares is now teasing an imminent reveal for all he's worth, and actually dropping a few details. Fares might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I love his ...
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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'
Hazelight founder Josef Fares, known for his work on games including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and the upcoming Split Fiction (plus that whole Oscars moment at The ...
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'Split Fiction' director wants video games to bring people together
“You are jumping between sci-fi and fantasy throughout the game — these two people are not a fan of each other's genre and are not a fan of each other,” says game director Josef Fares.
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The Independent Gamer: ‘It Takes Two’ Director Josef Fares on Being Inspired by “The Urge of Doing Something That Hasn’t Been Done”
In fact according to Hazelight’s founder Josef Fares, who directed the game, it has been “quite insane.” He recalls to The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom, “It’s the most craziest reaction ...
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“We are the best in the world, because nobody else is doing it.”
Amid the games industry’s constant push-pull between contained single-player stories and sprawling multiplayer experiences, Josef Fares and his studio Hazelight keep making things that sit ...
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A Way Out creator Josef Fares: ‘If you don’t like it, you can break my legs’
It was a wonderfully creative co-op game about two friends breaking out of a prison. Josef Fares, the head of Hazelight, a new studio from the creators of indie hit Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons ...
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Josef Fares reveals why 'It Takes Two' is a "f*cked up" game
Josef Fares knows how to make headlines. The eclectic game director first gained attention when he took the stage at EA’s 2017 E3 showcase to introduce his co-op game, A Way Out. A few months ...
The Washington Post3mon
‘Split Fiction’ is a dazzling leader in the revival of two-player gaming
As a former filmmaker now directing video games, Josef Fares is taking the hard road to creativity. “If I want to make another movie, it’ll be like going on vacation,” said Fares ...
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Josef Fares reveals whether Hazelight would make 3-4 player co-op games
While two seems to be the magic number for Hazelight at the moment, we asked if they'd consider expanding the amount of ...