Ben Retan

I am honored and privileged to have been a member of the Conference Associates program at Games Developers’ Conference for over 11 years. I started when I was still in college and it has been an invaluable community of highly creative and talented individuals who posses both skill and kindness that have helped me along my journey within my career.

This past year at the conference, I arranged to give a speech to some of my fellow associates prior to our volunteer shifts and wanted to share this heartfelt video with you all.

Nothing but love to my fellow CAs and all the staff and UBM that help us put on a great show for the boss! (the attendees)

Defiance 2050, a reimagined take on the 2013 shooter MMO Defiance that was revealed to the world earlier this year, will launch on July 10, Trion Worlds announced today. Before it does, an open beta will run from June 22-25, providing players with an opportunity to try out different character classes, weapons, and progression systems.

As a Senior Systems Designer at Trion, I personally have been responsible for overseeing the reworking of the weapons and the implementation of the class system.

I am really excited that I can finally share with everyone the new project I have been working on at Trion.

As a Senior Systems Designer, I am responsible for the core combat, including base weapons, movement, melee and grenades. I am also working on a new, revamped class system!

Having a great time working as a Technical designer at my new company MunkyFun. Nothing to announce just yet but everyone here is really motivated to launch our next product. Stay tuned!

Although I’ve already moved on to start my new position with Hammer & Chisel, you can see all my work in the new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare multi-player reveal!

While my role was primarily in the systems design and gameplay, kudos to the whole multi-player team including our talented artists, map designers, engineers, producers, quality analysts and leads.

I know it will be a hit!

We at Hammer & Chisel have just released the game Fates Forever, a MOBA game designed exclusively for touch-devices.

We are really excited to share it with the community and look forward to all the new contestants that we have in the works!

Check out our introduction cinematic as well as some gameplay footage:

After working on this for so long, I’m happy that we can finally share our debut trailer for Advanced Warfare starring no other than Kevin Spacey himself!

Can’t share anything on multi-player yet. Stay tuned later in the year for our reveal!