Red Faction to Get Small Screen Treatment
Friday, April 30th, 2010The partnership between developer THQ and SyFy has borne some significant fruit. Destroy-everything-shooter franchise Red Faction is set to be translated into a television film, with the next game in the series being produced in conjunction with SyFy games. The film will run approximately two hours long and could act as a pilot for a [...]
No CommentsInfinity Ward Files $125m Lawsuit, Activision Responds
Friday, April 30th, 2010After weeks of continuous resignation announcements, we are finally getting some legal data on the ongoing battle between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward and giga-publisher Activision. “The Infinity Ward Employee Group”, 38 plaintiffs either current or former employees at the developer, filed a claim in the Los Angeles Superior Court against Activision. [...]
2 CommentsGet Your Name in Crysis 2
Friday, April 30th, 2010EA is giving 50 people the opportunity to have their name (or gamertag/psn ID) immortalized in Crysis 2 as graffiti. The contest is open to residents of US, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. To enter follow @Crysis on Twitter and tweet one of the following:
1 CommentUniversity of Maryland to Offer Free Gamer Orchestra
Friday, April 30th, 2010There are few words in the English language that are better than the word “FREE.” “Burrito” comes close… but nothing is better than free.
4 CommentsCall of Duty: Black Ops Announced
Friday, April 30th, 2010Activision has announced today that the next instalment in the Call of Duty series will be released on November 9th 2010, and will be known as Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game is currently in development at Treyarch, who has dedicated teams working on the singleplayer, multiplayer and cooperative aspects of the game. No [...]
1 CommentTwo New Tom Clancy Games in Development
Thursday, April 29th, 2010In a recent interview, the IP-developer for games in Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy series stated that two new Tom Clancy titles have just gone into development. The statement was made in an interview with game industry magazine Control by Michiel Verheijdt, who was recently promoted to the position of IP-developer at the newly opened Ubisoft Luxembourg [...]
1 CommentBungie and Activision Sign Exclusive Publishing Agreement
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Activision proudly announced today that it has entered into a ten-year agreement with Bungie, the developer of Oni, Myst, Marathon and the Halo-series. Bungie had been an independent studio since 2007, when it separated from Microsoft. Under the current agreement, Activision will have exclusive publishing and distribution rights to all future games that are to be developed by Bungie [...]
9 CommentsRomero’s Survival of the Dead Premiers Tomorrow
Thursday, April 29th, 2010It’s hard to be a geek without falling in love with zombie films. Geeks and zombies go hand in hand… until the zombie bites the geek’s hand and then you have two zombies to deal with instead of just one.
No CommentsAfter Burner: Climax Video Review
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Nostalgia is a powerful marketing tool. SEGA appears to be going after those nostalgia dollars with After Burner: Climax, but there’s a large age gap when it comes to the After Burner video game series.
16 CommentsMonster Hunter Tri Review
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010You get to kill giant monsters with giant weapons, what more could you want?
23 CommentsMotion Gaming, Part 2: Project Natal
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Motion Gaming is all the rage, we take a detailed look at the phonomenon. This time Project Natal is de-mystified, to the best of our abilities.
4 CommentsSingapore Invests $14.6m in its Games Industry
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore’s federal government recently announced a financial incentive boost on internal film and video game development, hoping to “[place] an emphasis on projects that are internationally-marketable and scale across media platforms.” Games in particular received 20 million Singapore dollars, roughly equivalent to $14.6 million in investment. The earmarked funds [...]
1 CommentBruckheimer: Games to Look Identical to Movies in a Decade
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Jerry Bruckheimer has the magic producer’s touch, weaving gold from a stilted script about a group of bar room dancing girls and – most impressively – a Disneyland park attraction. But his approach and support of the Prince of Persia video game license has many, including him, both declaring an end to the two medium’s [...]
1 CommentNintendo Forced to Reveal 3DS?
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010A lot of analysts are still blinking in confusion after the puzzling announcement schedule coming out of Nintendo’s portable gaming division. Months before the DSi XL unit was to be released in the States, the Big N announced the development and impending release of another, arguably superior, 3DS unit. Some have supposed that the inconvenient [...]
1 CommentEven More Designers Leave IW, Activision
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Bonuses be damned. Infinity Ward has been hemorrhaging staff ever since the controversial firing of Vince Zampella and Jason West, but the consistent flow of resignations has surprised even the most liberal reactions to the legal conflict between developer and publisher. Since last week, 10 more have left Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward, bringing [...]
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