Remember that a movie about Chun-Li was coming out? If not, chances are you manually made yourself forget it, so here’s a friendly reminder that it will exist! (And is being filmed/edited as you read this!) Before your eyes get too teary from sobs, you can now check out the first trailer for the movie at [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 20, 2008
People familiar with Paul W.S. Anderson’s work usually fall into one of two camps: those who think he’s the best of the game-to-movie directors, and those who think he’s the best of the game-to-movie directors and that is a very, very sad thing. Speaking to IGN about the Castlevania movie (spoiler: it's in pre-production limbo without [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Who doesn't love game movies? From the Hollywood masterpieces of Tomb Raider's caliber, to more independent efforts like Uwe Boll's Blood Rayne, such projects are always able to entertain, for one reason or another. I'm kidding of course, the only entertainment value in the former are Jolie's smooth, firm costumes (what did you think?), while [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Hollywood’s run out of awesome foreign films to destroy (for now), so what’s next? Games, of course! Gore Verbinski should be a familiar name to most gamers; he directed the Pirates trilogy and is producing the upcoming Bioshock film. If Bioshock weren't enough for you, now Variety is reporting that he purchased the rights to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I feel no shame in declaring my love for Professor Layton. The brainy, top hat wearing British puzzle solver has kept me awake many a nights. (I can’t stand Luke, though. Annoying bugger.) Ever since I first laid my hands on the game, I’ve wanted two things: the other two Layton titles to be released [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
If Game Informer does become the only remaining multiformat print mag in the US, I will weep -- but not because of any particular quality issues on the part of GI. This month, they've got a special treat in store for Prince of Persia fans like myself: an editorial on cross-media convergence penned by none [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
I very much admire Alan Moore. He is a genius. He was on the Simpsons. He might actually be the best person in the world. Unfortunately, all his railing against the upcoming movie adaptation of his Watchmen graphic novel and its inevitable video game tie-in has done absolutely nothing to squelch my lust for both. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
Want to know how to start a promising company, secure $400 million in funding, and then be forced to shut down 17 months later because you’ve run out of cash? If you do, pay close attention to the story of Brash Entertainment, because that’s exactly what they’ve managed to do, according to Variety. When it was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 7, 2008
Who ya gonna call? Atari, of course. Following their acquisition of The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena from Activision Blizzard last week, Atari has today announced that they will be publishing Ghostbusters as well in 2009. With a story "penned by original Ghostbusters writers Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd," the original film stars' faces and voices [...]
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 [...]
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Monday, December 29, 2008
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