jason-hall posts

It's been a very interesting last few years for Jason Hall. He first became well known as a game developer and later game industry executive who helped to found developer Monolith (creators of games like Blood, Shogo and No One Lives Forever). Hall then became the head of Warner Bros. Interactive in 2004 and helped to launch a number of titles for the company including the original F.E.A.R. In 2007, Hall decided to leave the game industry, at least on a day to day basis, with the founding of HDFilms, a multi-media development studio in Hollywood.

Despite becoming a full-fledged Hollywood producer, Hall told Big Download recently in a phone interview that he's still a gamer at heart, "I grew up playing games," he told use, "and it always pissed me off how video game culture is depicted in the media. The masses in general have this very specific viewpoint of what these people are like." Hall said that the video game culture is, in his opinion, everywhere you look. " Today, either you play video games or you know someone who does," he says.

Earlier this week we reported that former Monolith founder Jason Hall was going to debut his new web based talk show called the Jace Hall Show. The announcement claimed that the first episode would have a new trailer from Duke Nukem Forever, the long awaited FPS from 3D Realms. However, the developer's president George Broussard quickly put that bit of news down, saying, if there was a new trailer for Duke Nukem Forever on the show, "I'd tell you if I did."

Well, now you can see that debut episode on Crackle.com yourself and after chatting with team members about the game, Hall is actually seen playing the game near the end of the episode. It's an over the shoulder camera viewpoint so that means no direct feed footage. However there is a lot of shooting, a brief look at the weapons interface and some interesting visuals. So while it's not a true trailer it's still something new from the game that's been over 10 years in development. Now we just need something a little more substantial . . . like a release date.

Oh, and there's a chat with Heroes actor Greg Grunberg.

It's been a few months since we have had any news on Duke Nukem Forever so we dive in head first any chance we get on this game. The latest tidbit that got us excited (at first anyway) was news from a web-based video show network called Crackle.com that they would have a new trailer from 3D Realm's long, long, long awaited first person shooter. The trailer would be shown on a new Crackle.com program called the Jace Hall Show, hosted by Jason Hall, the former head of Monolith Entertainment and the former president of Warner Bros. Interactive.

But wait! Shacknews (who got a look at Duke Nukem Forever several weeks ago but said little about it) reports that there likely won't be a new trailer after all on this show. According to 3D Realms' president George Broussard, they did the show with Hall as a favor to him months ago and that if there was a new trailer for Duke Nukem Forever on the show, "I'd tell you if I did." The show is expected to debut online and on Xbox Live on Wednesday.