After all the hubbub around the gritty re-invention proposed by that live-action trailer from earlier in the week, I have to say that seeing Scorpion and Sub-Zero look the way I’m used to is a little bit comforting.
The new trailer from Warner Brother Interactive Entertainment returns to the mystical kung-fu tournament milieu of games …
Power Gig, Def Jam Rapstar, DJ Hero 2.Feels like I’ve writing a bunch about music games lately. Part of that’s because I like music. But the other part is because the genre’s evolving, adding new musical styles and modes of interaction in a bid to engage players in different ways. And, to make more money, of course.
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Unless there’s a sudden technology breakthrough brewing that no one knows about, movies will always be missing the core element of video gaming: pressing a button (or providing some other kind of input) to make stuff happen on a screen. Still, film can accomplish things with gaming-centric adaptations that aren’t inherent to the …
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 to your discretion and red means …
The thing about the worst movies adapted from video game source material is the insidious way they reinforce the most ignorant criticisms of the medium. “What do you expect?” elitists sniff about dross such as Far Cry. “It was made from a video game.” Yes, it was… by opportunistic producers, hack directors and actors looking …
DJ Hero was last year’s biggest surprise success in the music game genre. It had a lot going against it: it was largely a single-player affair, the game offered no vocal component and its controller were new and intimidating. Despite all of that, and a very high price tag, DJ Hero apparently sold enough units to warrant a …
Anyone watching the movements of Tinseltown dealmakers can’t have missed that producers keep on securing rights to turn video games into silver-screen spectacles. Maybe it’s because Hollywood sees its financial salvation in the titles of another medium, or because the ascendant agents, directors and execs grew up playing video games
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Sure as the sun rises every day, you can bet that a new Guitar Hero game will be hitting shelves on an annual basis. But, Activision’s looking to shake things up with the newly-announced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The 2010 version of the rhythm game introduces a story mode that will take bands from legendary rock club CBGB’s to …
This year’s spate of music games (and there’s gonna be a lot of ’em) will be getting more hip-hop than ever with Def Jam Rapstar. As previously discussed, Rapstar’s a MC-focused music game that tasks players to perform music from hip-hop greats past and present. Publisher Konami and developer 4MM are announcing that rap fanatics in …
Michael Jordan, arguably the best hoops player to ever drive the lane, has long been absent from basketball video games. That changes now.
Capping off a flurry of rumors, CNBC’s reporting that Jordan will be the cover athlete for NBA 2K11. 2K Sports is only one of many game-makers (including EA) to use the NBA license, but they’ve …
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 to your discretion and red means …
It’s Memorial Day, during which we celebrate those who have fallen fighting the good fight and those who still wage it. May is also Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, so we’ve decided to list a few Asian superheroes we think deserve a bit more recognition. People of Asian descent are woefully underrepresented in Western superhero …
