We never figured it'd be particularly hard to compare "Dante's Inferno" to "Dead Space" or "God of War." The first two games both come from the same EA Redwood Shores studio, and the first and third have practically the same premise: both are 3rd-person action adventure games that explore an individuals' journey from hell towards [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
I've already explained how I feel about the VGA awards, but this year they had even more great surprises for those who bothered watching them live. Nine hot trailers of nine equally hotly anticipated titles were shown for the first time, sending crowds of fans into a pants-wetting ecstasy. Here they are in random order, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Right before Halloween, in a Hollywood bidding frenzy for hot new film licenses, Electronic Arts prematurely revealed that they were working on a brand-new Divine Comedy videogame. Three days later, GameCyte discovered that the game's would-be producer, Jonathan Knight, had one hell of a resume. Today, two months of rumor and speculation about both come to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
This Halloween, EA likely made video game licensing history when they managed to attract four separate film studios to bid on the movie rights to a video game they hadn't even announced yet: Dante's Inferno. Today, Variety reports that the winner is Universal, and that they landed Dante's Inferno in a seven-figure deal. But to GameCyte [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 31, 2008
Despite their average lack of quality, building movies around video game licenses seems to be the in thing right now. Dead Space, Prince of Persia, Lost Planet, even The Sims will have their own movies shortly, and there are plenty more in the works. Yesterday evening, Variety discovered that four film studios were bidding for the [...]
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