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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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.
Josef Fares made gamers laugh during The Game Awards when he yelled “f*** the Oscars” into the camera, saying that games are where it’s at. And the writer and director at the Hazelight game ...
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 ...
While two seems to be the magic number for Hazelight at the moment, we asked if they'd consider expanding the amount of ...
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 ...
During the last Game Awards, A Way Out director Josef Fares became infamous for a speech he gave before showing off the game. The big takeaway was a simple sentiment: “f**k the Oscars”.