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David Jaffe on Lying About Twisted Metal

By james_fudge

Leading up to E3 Eat, Sleep, Play's David Jaffe vehemently denied that he was working on a new Twisted Metal game, but near the end of Sony's E3 press event last week Jaffe revealed that a new Twisted Metal game was in the works for the PlayStation 3. Later Jaffe would reveal that he had been working on the game for well over 18 months. Some in the press called him out for his blatant disregard for the truth.

Speaking to Joystiq this week, Jaffe defended his decision to lie, saying that the importance of keeping his project a secret was more important than being honest with media outlets looking for confirmation. But the lie was further perpetrated by a blatant game of misdirection as Jaffe lamented about not working on a new Twisted Metal game on Twitter. In the tweet he said that he "wished" he was working on Twisted Metal because "making a game you've already worked on is tons easier" than working on a new property. Well it turns out that he was in fact working on Twisted Metal at the time he wrote. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).