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Irish indie rocker loves Sonic the Hedgehog
Irish indie folk rocker Big Monster Love loves video games. So much so that he named his debut album Game Over and uses a pixelated version of himself on the cover (hmm, that’s a pretty neat idea).
He teamed up with the creative agency Bowsie Workshop to create the awesome 8-bit-inspired stop motion music video you see above. Add in a little Sonic the Hedgehog for flavor and a catchy little ditty (called “Free Gaff Forever”) and you’ve got the recipe for a great two minutes on YouTube.
Oh, and in case you don’t speak Irish slang, “free gaff” refers to living rent free with your parents. And “forever” means forever. OK, that one’s the same everywhere.
Extended Prototype 2 trailer adds in some dev commentary
GDC is ending today (but PAX is coming up!) and Radical Entertainment released an extended clip of the announcement trailer for Prototype 2. It’s mostly the same stuff we saw at the VGAs, but the most notable part is the developer commentary. It’s almost kind of depressing, where one of the lead designers proclaims how he’s not making the game for himself, he’s making this game for three, four, five million people and wants to know how to make it for them.
I guess the sentiment’s appropriate for GDC, since everyone there is asking the same question, but I would hate to play in an industry where that’s how game developers go about their job. In fact, the team in the Killzone 3 special features stated that it’s a culmination of all the cool ideas they personally wished were in games, and that turned out pretty well. We’ll have to see how the different approaches work out for each studio with the incoming NPD report for February and when Prototype 2 ships sometime in 2012.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Prototype 2
Fifth Resident Evil film coming September 14, 2012
It’s kind of ironic that the last few Resident Evil films have all had subtitles suggesting the end of the world, as the next movie in the franchise is releasing towards the end of 2012 on September 14.
The untitled Resident Evil 5 will be coming two years after the last one, the shortest wait in between installments ever for the series. It’s no wonder why, as the last outing, Afterlife, exploded at the foreign box office, grossing $236 million overseas, more than the first three films combined.
The film is expected to be in 3D, as was the last one, and currently there are no other movies scheduled for that date. The September window is the same the last three movies have all shared.
[Source: Box Office Mojo]
Posted in Etcetera, News
Tagged Resident Evil: Retribution
Daily Scoop: March 4, 2011 – Let the PAX countdown begin!
It’s Friday! It’s one week until PAX East! You know what that means, right? It means my weekend is going to be full of laundry and packing and planning and scheming. It also means this is going to be one of the longest weeks of the year, because the week before PAX is always the longest week of the year. Whatever, time! You can’t stop the FUN!
Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is Fable III for the Xbox 360. It’s $28.06 today, which seems completely and totally arbitrary, but whatever. That’s a good deal down from $59.99! So gobble this one up while you can.
Also, I am completely freaking out right now, because ThinkGeek is selling PixelJunk Shooter 2 t-shirts!! AIEEEEEEEE!!
This is amazing. They have this shirt (called “Ship It“) and another called “Acid Test.” So. Cool. As soon as these t-shirts are available as babydolls, I’m buying them both. Do you hear me, Timmy??? BOTH OF THEM!!
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Bungie’s next game will be an MMO
Move over Blizzard, Bungie’s riding into town and they’re bringing a new MMO with them.
During a panel titled “I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach” at the Game Developers Conference, Bungie’s David Aldridge revealed that the company’s next game will be a “massively multiplayer action game.”
The game will be part of Bungie’s New Universe and will be published by Activision sometime in the not-so-near future (Activision execs have stated it won’t be released until 2012 at the earliest). When asked for more details on the project, Aldridge said it’s not “WoW in space.”
Hopefully, we’ll find out more about Bungie’s New Universe (and some kind of release schedule) at E3.
[Source: IGN]
Sega announces Game Gear lineup for Japanese 3DS players
Nintendo announced so many insane features for the 3DS yesterday that some of them couldn’t even make the headline. One of the bigger surprises was that Sega Game Gear games would make it to the 3DS’s Virtual Console. To someone who started playing games in the 1990s, this would be like Microsoft Games Studio titles coming out on the PSP.
So far, Sega has announced which games will be available to download at launch in the land of the rising sun, and hopefully it’ll shed some light on what games we can expect in the US:
— Sonic and Tails 2
— Sonic Drift 2
— Columns
— The GG Shinobi
— Dragon Crystal: Shirani’s Maze
I don’t know about you, but Sonic, Shinobi, and Columns sound like enough on their own to keep you occupied on the go for a long time.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best-selling PS3 game of all time
Relying on data from the NPD Group, Chart-Track, and GfK, Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops is the highest selling game on Sony’s PlayStation 3 since the console launched in 2006. The PS3 is in its fifth year on the market, and CoDBlOps managed to accomplish this feat in less than four months. The announcement came with the arrival of the First Strike DLC map pack on the PlayStation Store this week.
We recently compared the game with its immediate predecessor, Modern Warfare 2, and came out with Black Ops as the superior game. While Call of Duty isn’t necessarily the greatest series in the world, it’s nice to see Black Ops surpass the records of the last one.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Mortal Kombat introduces the Challenge Tower, wants you to cry
The newest feature revealed by NetherRealm Studios for the upcoming Mortal Kombat is the Challenge Tower. We could make a news post detailing all the insane scenarios shown and described in the trailer above (Test Your Might, Test Your Sight, etc), but you really should just see it for yourself. My favorite is when Mileena offers Scorpion a Teddy Bear, which he refuses. Frustrated at how long she spent making it, the two have no choice but to battle it out.
Mortal Kombat will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 19, with a PlayStation Plus-exclusive demo planned for March 8.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat