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NetherRealm pours it on with Rain gameplay trailer
Rain and his water-based repertoire of special attacks will be coming to Mortal Kombat on July 19. Available to download for 400 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360 and $5 on the PS3, the purple one is still rocking the “around the world” roundhouse kick, which instantly makes him the awesomest character available in the game. Which you can check out in the trailer above.
With Rain’s release that only leaves the “unannounced new entrant” as the final piece of Mortal Kombat’s Summer DLC slate. Anybody want to take any guesses as to who it’ll be? Or could it be a truly new character? Hopefully, we’ll find out soon.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat
WWE Brawl takes it to the streets in 2012
Everyone’s favorite WWE wrestlers will be taking their fighting prowess to the streets in next year’s WWE Brawl. The game was first revealed at a WWE corporate event back in April, but its full trailer wasn’t released on the Internet until today (and there’s still been no official announcement from THQ).
In development for the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360, WWE Brawl features cartoony renditions of WWE superstars as they use their wrestling super powers in “full destructible environments.” Beyond the beat ’em up nature of the game and a preliminary roster that features The Undertaker, The Miz, John Cena, Kelly Kelly, Triple H, Edge and Sheamus, there’s not much else to tell about WWE Brawl.
But the trailer above is fairly entertaining.
Valve comic collection coming in November
Dark Horse’s newest solicitation list has revealed the comic book publisher plans to release a hardcover compilation of Valve’s promotional comic strips in November. Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories will contain over 300 pages of comic strips set within the worlds of Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.
Here’s what Dark Horse had to say about the collection:
For fifteen years, Valve has defined the cutting edge of video games. Now, Valve joins with Dark Horse to bring three critically acclaimed, fan-favorite series to print, with a hardcover collection of comics from the worlds of Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Portal. With over three hundred pages of story, Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories is a must-read for fans looking to further explore the games they love or comics readers interested in dipping their toes into new mythos!
Valve Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories will be available in stores and online on November 16
[Source: Comic Book Resources]
Space Invaders film in the works
With films based on Uncharted, Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed in the works, the “video game movie” may be undergoing a radical shift in the near future. But in addition to those more cerebral games, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed there’s a movie adaptation of Space Invaders in the works as well.
The movie rights to the game adaptation have been acquired by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (one of the producers of the Transformers trilogy) and Odd Lot Entertainment’s Gigi Pritzker, who are currently looking for a writer. Although “adaptation” may be stretching the definition of the words as Space Invaders had little in the way of plot or characters. In fact, the whole story is right there in the title: invaders, possibly from space, are attacking Earth!
This isn’t the first time a Space Invaders movie has been mulled over by Hollywood. Last year, Warner Bros. and Criminal Minds mastermind Mark Gordon attempted to acquire the rights, but that deal must have fallen apart.
Whatever the final movie looks like, it’s unlikely it’ll top one of the greatest moments in the history of Futurama.
Posted in Etcetera, News
Tagged Space Invaders
Weekly Warp-Up: July is Too Hot Edition
No, that’s not a typo. Welcome to the Weekly Warp-Up, your weekly wrap-up of the biggest and the best articles posted at Warp Zoned this week…
The temperature is rising, but we’ve got lots of cool games to talk about this week on the Warp Zoned Weekly Warp-Up.
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The Warp Zoned Podcast goes weekly with episode 13! Mike Gutierrez, Nicole Kline, Ryan Littlefield, and Adam Woolcott tackle some of the most important news, starting with what they’ve been playing, moving on to the big regime change at Sony, and ending with Nintendo’s folly with Operation Rainfall. They keep the tangents to a minimum, focusing mostly on ridiculous peripheries for the Wii.
We also dug back through the last five years of gaming and found Five Games That Deserve Another Look. Trust me, you’ll thank us.
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See the BioShock Infinite “Behind Closed Doors” E3 demo
BioShock Infinite cleaned up at this year’s E3 Game Critics Awards winning Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best PC Game and Best Action/Adventure Game.
BioShock Infinite won these awards on the back of a “Behind Closed Doors” demo provided by Irrational Games. Now, Ken Levine and the rest of Irrational has released the demo for public consumption and its easy to see why it won so many accolades.
BioShock Infinite is currently on track for a 2012 release on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. So hopefully we’ll get plenty more gameplay footage where this came from.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged BioShock Infinite
Bungie bids farewell to the Halo franchise
Halo was first revealed at MacWorld 1999, at a time when Semisonic’s “Closing Time” was one of the most popular songs on the radio. While the game and the song are otherwise unrelated, the theme of Bungie’s farewell to the Halo franchise seems to evoke the song’s memorable: line “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
The team at Bungie talked about the last 20 years and how much the Halo franchise means to them. But they have also empowered fans to remember that the series ultimately belongs to them and to “hold these characters and stories and worlds to the same unflinching standards you did while we were at the helm, but allow them all to blossom and change and grow in the ways that they must.”
The developer also revealed that Halo matchmaking services will transfer to Microsoft’s 343 Industries on August 2, the same day they plan to release a documentary on Bungie’s history titled O Brave New Worlds. After that, they plan to go dark and begin serious work on their New Universe.
They closed by saying thanks to all their fans, but really, I think its the fans who should be saying thanks to them. Whether or not you like the Halo franchise, it changed video gaming forever. And that’s not something too many developers can say.
Bungie hiring more PS3 developers for their New Universe; could it be Pimps at Sea?
If you were still worried that Bungie’s New Universe wouldn’t be coming to the PS3, don’t be. The developer, who just said goodbye to the Halo series, has posted multiple job openings looking for programmers who are proficient in PS3 development.
Scouring the job listings produced few details about the project, although the phrase “A love of combat on the high seas” appeared several times under the heading “Nice-to-have Skills.” Does this mean Bungie is developing a pirate game? Perhaps one with futuristic pirates? Or is this just another reference to their long-running April Fool’s franchise Pimps at Sea? The world may never know.
Actually, we’ll probably know in the not-too-distant future as Bungie plans to “go dark” and afterwards reveal the first game in their New Universe, published by Activision, very soon. Good thing too as the game will likely be released in 2012.