Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
Up until very recently, Walt Disney’s first creation didn’t belong to the empire that the iconic animator built up over the deacdes. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit plays a big part in the upcoming Disney Epic Mickey game and this new clip details how the history of the long-eared toon influenced designer Warren Spector and the [...]
Warren Spector’s been promising that Disney Epic Mickey–the first video game in years where Uncle Walt’s signature creation plays a lead role–will let players turn Mickey into, well, a poopyhead. Players can make a bunch of self-serving decisions that benefit only themselves and one guess that, once those choices compound on one another, Mickey will [...]
We already know that Warren Spector’s lending his particular brand of game design genius to one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved characters. If that alone isn’t enough to get you excited for Disney Epic Mickey when it hits this holiday, then Disney’s throwing in some shelf porn to sweeten the deal.
Video games get a lot of accessories. Controller cozies, charging stations, cable extenders. All too often, this crap doesn’t function not to mention it can look awful.
With another E3 in the books, Peter and I took some time to compile a list of what surprised us the most at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. This year’s show boasted over 100 exhibitors and many more hundreds of titles to see and play, all split between the South and West halls of the [...]
The cool thing about Disney Epic Mickey is that it puts you in a living breathing cartoon world and gives you the power to change the way it looks and behaves. The upcoming game merges action, role-playing and platforming elements and takes place in the Wasteland, a sort of limbo for obscure and forgotten Disney [...]
Last week we sat down with Warren Spector and spoke to him about his upcoming project: Disney Epic Mickey. The artwork looks amazing despite the Wii’s lackluster graphics capabilities. This is a Mickey that we’ve never seen before. It’s a radical change for Disney from what Spector told us. We also learned that Warren is [...]
