How Stig Built God of War and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Welcome to the newly relaunched IGN Unfiltered, my monthly interview series where I sit down with the best, brightest, and most fascinating minds in the video game industry. I'm back with a brand-new bar/arcade set – complete with a working beer tap! My guest this month is veteran game developer Stig Asmussen, who discusses his career in gaming, from being an art director and eventual game director on the God of War series to leading a team at Respawn Entertainment on the smash hit Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

Check out the episode in the video above, but if you'd prefer to listen to the full, unedited episode, here's an audio-only podcast download link. One way or the other we hope you'll check out the interview!

Here's a preview clip, in which Asmussen reveals the other names that were considered for both Kratos and God of War itself:

And if you missed it, here's the previous episode of Unfiltered, in which former PlayStation and Xbox executive Phil Harrison discusses what it was like working on both sides of the console rivalry:

Catch up on every episode of IGN Unfiltered here, including conversations with Bethesda game director Todd Howard, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, former PlayStation boss Jack Tretton, Journey creator Jenova Chen, Halo boss Bonnie Ross, and many more!

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