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Video gamesThursday Oct 30, 2008
Beatles Videogame Coming Out in 2009They once said all you need is love. That might be amended now to All You Need Is Videogames A new Beatles videogame from MTV Games will be in stores in time for the holiday season, according to Variety. The partnership is the first time Apple Corps., EMI Music, Harrisongs and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have agreed to present the Beatles' music in a video game presentation. Executives from Apple, MTV and game developer Harmonix announced the game today in London, giving few details beyond the game's existence, noting further announcements would come in the next few months. "The game is in development," said Jeff Jones, CEO, Apple Corps. "We don't want to talk about how it will turn out a year from now. We're in the process of creating the game." The game will include songs recorded during the Beatles tenure within EMI, 1962 to 1969, and it is possible the entire catalog will be used. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono Lennon have been part of the conversations regarding the design, layout and roll out of the game. Discussions, both creative and financial, between Apple Corps. and MTV began 17 months ago. Friday Jul 25, 2008
Darksiders: The Wrath of War Party
It was like a really wholesome opium den - with cartoon violence. Monday Dec 03, 2007
Gerstmann Gone from Gamespot--What Really Happened?
Jeff Gerstmann, the editorial director at CNET's Gamespot.com, was abruptly fired last Wednesday after 11 years at the site. There's a rumor going around that Gerstmann was canned because he was overly critical of Kane & Lynch, a game that was heavily advertised on the site. Eidos,the publisher, allegedly threatened to pull hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising if Gerstmann wasn't fired. CNET has denied that the firing was based on advertiser pressure, Eidos has issued a blanket "no comment" and Gerstmann isn't talking about the circumstances surrounding the firing (citing "legal reasons"). Despite this, the gaming community is up in arms over the issue, vandalizing "user review" pages on Gamespot, posting criticism on the site's forums (over 12,600 posts at last count) and planning boycotts and protests at the CNET offices. Rival publisher Ziff Davis staged an impromptu rally at their offices (across the street from CNET) and gaming blog destructoid.com has changed their front page banner to criticize Gamespot.
Tuesday Jun 26, 2007
Red Vs. Blue--100th Episode Marks the End
The 15-minute final episode will be "the biggest one we've ever done," says Burns, "but The Sopranos stole our ending, so we had to change it completely" Microsoft, in a rare show of generosity, decided to embrace Rooster Teeth's work instead of suing them. Monday Jun 04, 2007
GSN Offers Paris Hilton Video Game
The Prison Life: Paris features an animated Hilton making license plates, that feature such phrases as PRTYGRL, ABUVLAW, DUI4ME, DRV2FST and PRVTCEL. John P. Roberts, GSN's Sr. V=P of Digital Media & Interactive Entertainment, is the originator of the game. Friday Apr 27, 2007
Game Over: Larry Shapiro Leaves CAA, Ken Kutaragi Leaves Sony
Shapiro was the head of the video game unit. Seamus Blackley is still there, along with Ophir Lupu. The team brought Doom to the multiplex, but the Halo movie stalled. Back in the day, actors actually thought they would have some influence on characters and plotlines. SAG couldn't even get them residuals, much less script approval. Far bigger news in the game world is the retirement of Sony CEO current director, chairman, CEO, and "father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi. Friday Nov 17, 2006
Can Buzz Be Explained in a Q&A? Mais Wii'Tis the season of consumer madness. Of people lining up for days outside Best Buy and Circuit City for the chance to spend the equivalent of some countries' GNP on a PS3. Of people getting into scuffles. Of people getting shot. We expect that. It is, after all, almost Christmas. But our jaws dropped when we saw a recent "South Park" episode in which Cartman, unable to stand the anticipation of the launch of the Nintendo Wii, freezes himself to, you know, make the time go by faster. How does a PR agency buy that kind of buzz? The answer is simple: They don't. "The South Park episodes happened completely unexpectedly and on their own -- we had no role in that," Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo of America's VP of marketing told FBLA. What they do have a role in is getting normal, showered, employed people to act like morons in anticipation of a toy going on sale. To explain how buzz spills from Ain't it Cool News to Fit For Kids, Perrin agreed to illuminate the insidious world of brainwashing, er, marketing:
Thursday Nov 02, 2006
Huff Poster Fearless Enough to Ask "Are Video Games Art?"
I'm one of those antediluvian killjoys who have always found them a mind-numbing, headache-inducing, imagination-trammeling, morally desensitizing, graphically violent and misogynistic waste of time. Unlike the rest of her life, outside of Uncanny Valley.
Thursday Oct 19, 2006
L. A. Noire-Video Game Goes into the Past
L.A. Noire blends action, detection and complex storytelling and draws players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders. Set in a perfectly recreated Los Angeles before freeways, with a post-war backdrop of corruption, drugs and jazz, L.A. Noire will truly blend cinema and gaming. Developer Brendan McNamara was looking for help: We still need more help so if you're a big Chandler, Hammett or Ellroy fan and still love making video games please get in touch. FBLA would love to help, but we're here and they're in Australia. Friday Aug 04, 2006
GTA's Pig Pen Not Play Pen
Grand Theft Auto is officially art. Rockstar Games had been sued by the owners of an LA strip club, who felt that the Pig Pen was too close to their own Play Pen. But US District judge Margaret Marrow ruled: Defendants' use of the Play Pen trade dress and trademark bears some artistic relevance to the game, and does not explicitly mislead consumers as to the source or content of the game. So with this and the Hot Coffee ruckus behind them, Rockstar can gear up for the release of Bully and the accompanying media squwaks. Previously |
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