Well, the next Bioshock game has been unveiled, and apparently it will be a prequel called Bioshock: Infinite. This time the folks at Irrational have shaken up the franchise a bit by setting the game in a giant air city suspended by blimps and balloons in 1912. The art design seems to draw from early [...]
I’ve been on a real retro 8-bit kick lately, so this recent trend of releasing video game “demakes” has definitely struck a chord with me. Whether we’re talking official releases like Mega Man 9 and 10 and Dark Void Zero, or fan-made projects like Portal: The Flash Version and the inexplicable new Goonies game for [...]
Never mind that Marvel Super Hero Squad stuff… now this is a comic book-based MMO I want to play! Of course, there’s obviously no way that the gameplay for an online game will look anywhere near as good as this epic six-minute cinematic. But if they can at least capture the general feel of this, [...]
I finished playing through David Cage and Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain a few days ago, the latest interactive mystery thriller from the same folks who made Indigo Prophecy for the Xbox and PS2. While I did enjoy it and I certainly admire the attempt to raise the bar for storytelling in games, I find myself [...]
If you’ve been enjoying the resurgence of point-and-click adventures thanks to folks like Telltale Games, and you’re in the market for something a little bit edgier, you might want to check out an iPhone game called Hector: Badge of Carnage. Developed by Irish animation studio Straandlooper, it’s an adventure game about a drunk and depraved [...]
I know a lot of people have been waiting a long time for an official Marvel MMO, but somehow I doubt this is what they had in mind. This week Gazillion Entertainment officially announced Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, an MMO based on Marvel’s line of cute and cartoony two-inch figures. As you might expect, [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post over on Film Junk about a movie in development based on one of the Fighting Fantasy books from the mid-’80s. I was a big fan of these books when I was younger, as they combined Choose Your Own Adventure-style branching stories with role-playing elements… a brilliant [...]
I know I’m probably in the minority here, but I haven’t touched a football video game since the mid-’90s. Once the Madden era took over, the games just got too complicated and realistic for me, and I couldn’t be bothered to put in the time to learn all the intricacies. In the years before that, [...]