Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Heavy Rain, The Movie?: The magic eight ball says yes. Apparently, New Line guys Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are optioning the rights to turn the PS3 game into a feature-length film.
[via Slash Film]
You mean you actually built an Iron Man suit? …
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 …
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 …
Whatever your opinions about the quality of the Michael Bay Transformers movies, it’s hard to deny that they’ve pushed the envelope insofar as what’s possible with digital filmmaking and CGI. You can’t really say that for the most recent Transformers games, though. Maybe it’s because they’ve been tied to movie release dates …
MediaMolecule’s wildly popular Little Big Planet is coming back for seconds. The sequel will ship this year with a revamped Popit (“you can bring your characters to life, compose your own music, direct cinematic masterpieces, wire controllers directly in to your contraptions, connect easy to use switches, microchips and circuit boards …
The racing genre in video games tends to operate around two poles. On one end, you’ve got incredibly realistic driving simulations games like the Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport series. On the other end, explosive, arcade-style titles like FlatOut and Burnout defy reality with crash-intensive competitions.
The gameplay in Blur …
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 …
Modder extraordinare Ben Heckendorn has just wrapped up his second PS3 Slim laptop. This one has a 17-inch 720p display, built-in speakers and headphone jack, and McMaster-Carr friction hinges.
The display’s HDMI cable can be detached from the PS3 in case you want to hook it up to a bigger TV and the headphones allow you to play
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Earlier this month, we brought some details about the single-player experience in Red Dead Redemption, the upcoming Western from the makers of Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games is now unveiling what the multiplayer action in RDR will look like.
Multiplayer matches will begin with standoffs where teams battle each other; the winning …
Case of the Mondays? Well, we’ve got some free stuff to give away to cheer you up. We don’t have any particular swag lying around but we do have oodles and oodles of video games around the office. I’ll pull together a handsome collection of three Xbox 360, Wii or PS3 games depending on your console of choice. All you need to do is watch …
According to Comic Book Resources, Kevin Conroy–the actor who’s voiced Batman in various animated series and last year’s hit Batman: Arkham Asylum game–let slip the identity of one of the Dark Knight’s major arch-nemeses who’ll be showing up in the upcoming Bat-game. During a Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo panel on …
Here’s the second half of the interview with Cliff Bleszinski in audio form (Check out Part I here). Over the last half of the hour we talked, Cliff mentions the comics he’s reading and his love of alcoholic superheroes, the process of how Bulletstorm came about and what he thinks of Playstation Move’s chances vs.
