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The Governator game in the works
Did you think Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to create a cartoon series called The Governator was all an April Fools’ joke? Well, the joke’s on you as Ah-nuld also plans to create a comic books series, a movie and a video game based on his Governator “character.”
“First will come comic books, then a TV series and after that we will develop the games and then a movie,” Schwarzenegger told a packed room of international journalists at global TV market MipTV in Cannes.
You can check out the first trailer for the cartoon series above where a powersuited Schwarzenegger steps down from the governor’s office and battles a group of bank-robbing Terminators with the help of his kids. Sure, it’s silly, but it also looks totally awesome.
[Source: Hollywood Reporter]
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Upsets abound in Round 2 of Madden NFL 12 voting
The second round of voting for the Madden NFL 12 cover athlete is complete and a ton of top seeds have been knocked out.
Jacksonville’s Maurice Jones-Drew (#3), Atlanta’s Matt Ryan (#2), Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward (#2) and San Diego’s Phillip Rivers (#1) have all escaped the Madden cover curse been voted out by the fans. The survivors of the second round include several Cinderella stories, though Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers is still alive as well in round three:
Aaron Rodgers (#1) vs Danny Woodhead (#4)
Jamaal Charles (#6) vs Peyton Hillis (#10)
Adrian Peterson (#9) vs Drew Brees (#4)
Michael Vick (#3) vs Patrick Willis (#10)
Voting for the third round begins today and runs through April 11th at ESPN.com/maddenvote.
Johnny Cage fights dirty in latest Mortal Kombat trailer
While the stupid “Johnny” tattoo across his chest is not a good look at all, Johnny Cage is back and as cocky as ever in the latest trailer for Mortal Kombat. Also, be on the lookout for the most painful X-Ray move ever.
Mortal Kombat will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 19th (which is just a little over two weeks away!).
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat
Super Bonk added to Virtual Console
It’s Monday morning and Nintendo has updated the Wii Shop Channel and the DSiWare Store with new games for all.
The biggest game in this week’s batch (or at least, the one with the biggest head) is Super Bonk. The Super NES classic was Bonk’s first (and in America, the only) foray onto the system.
If headbutting platformers aren’t your thing, the WiiWare service will see the addition of Planet Fish, a puzzle game set in an aquarium.
The DSiWare Shop will receive three new games this week: A Fairy Tale, a puzzle game where fairies have to save a magical kingdom; Absolute Baseball, a baseball management sim; and Anonymous Notes Chapter 1: From The Abyss, an episodic RPG with an “infinitely extending dungeon.”
More information on all of these games can be found after the break. (more…)
Weekly Warp-Up: No Fools 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…
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On Friday, the Internet lost its collective mind as the world celebrated April Fools’ Day. We dug through all the craziness in our April Fools’ Day Watch and, I have to admit, Smash M.N.C. would make an abosolutely game.
Earlier in the week had a lengthy chat with Kevin Schmitt, Lead Multiplayer Designer forSOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals. We got to talk extensively about the multiplayer, from game modes to progression paths, and how the buddy system plays a large role in the game.
But since it’s the end of the month, we discussed what we played in March 2011 in the very first Warpback compilation and we laid out our picks for the biggest games of April 2011 in the latest The Next Level.
Finally, we learned all about The Undead States of America, which was totally not an April Fools’ Day joke. OK, maybe it is. But if we all wish hard enough, it might become real.
Hit the jump for the rest of the Weekly Warp-Up. (more…)
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Team Meat bites back at Microsoft for lack of support; but reality doesn’t support their complaints
Team Meat recently sat down with Game Developer Magazine to talk about the development process behind their hit platformer Super Meat Boy. Summarized by Kotaku, the two-man team of Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes had some pretty harsh words to say about their relationship with Microsoft.
“We were told our price was too high, our visuals too rough and simply not as eye catching and flashy as the other Game Feast games Comic Jumper and Hydrophobia. Our hearts sank when we were informed that we were projected to sell as much if not less than Hydrophobia, which would be the second-highest grossing game of the Feast in their minds,” McMillen said.
McMillan would go on to complain that he felt Microsoft did not strongly support Super Meat Boy and that “the biggest mistake we made during SMB’s development was killing ourselves to get into a promotion [Game Feast] we would gain basically nothing from.” The duo also went on to say they never felt the game was given the attention it was promised. But wait… (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Super Meat Boy
Leaked Forza 4 gameplay video is real, says Microsoft
Forza Motorsport 4, with some neat Kinect-based features, was first shown off at last year’s E3 expo. Yesterday, April 1st, a new video showcasing some gameplay footage and more of the Kinect motion controls leaked onto the Internet. Microsoft could have passed the whole thing off as an April Fools’ Day hoax, but instead, they confirmed to CVG that the whole thing is real:
“The video in question was not intended for public distribution and may not accurately reflect features and functionality that ship in Forza Motorsport 4. We will have more to share on Forza Motorsport 4 in the near future.”
Just a guess, but I bet that “near future” reveal will be at E3 2011.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Forza Motorsport 4
Capcom, Namco won’t interfere with the other’s Street Fighter/Tekken crossover game
While Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat is still just a pipe dream of teenagers from the 90s, Capcom and Namco Bandai are moving full speed ahead with their Street Fighter and Tekken throwdowns.
But if you were worried that making two separate games based on the battle would be overkill, fear not, because apparently the two publishers have agreed not to interfere with anything the other does with one of their most sacred franchises. Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono recently sat down with The Guardian to promote Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition and delivered the news in the awesome way that only he can:
When we first decided to go ahead with this project we agreed not to interfere with each other at all! So Namco Bandai has no say in anything we do in Street Fighter X Tekken and vice versa for Tekken X Street Fighter – we have no idea what that’s going to look like and we cannot object to whatever Namco does!
If they go down the Dead or Alive route and Chun-Li comes out rather sexy, we STILL can’t say anything!
This news was already awesome, but Ono’s example showing just how much freedom each developer has in developing their “X” game is something you rarely see in inter-company crossovers.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Street Fighter X Tekken, Tekken X Street Fighter