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Grand Theft Auto IV, BlackSite: Area 51, and Lair Keel Over

GTA IV

Two EPIC games have been delayed: BlackSite: Area 51 and Grand Theft Auto IV. It makes me ill to my stomach to think that the industry had to delay such gems to make them better. What happened to outsourcing?!

Get some slave labor working on the game and we industrialized nations wouldn’t have to deal with such baloney. I mean seriously I don’t think I can wait till November 25, 2007 to play BlackSite: Area 51 or the second fiscal quarter of 2008 to play GTAIV! Gosh people, I don’t care about “setting a new standard for next-generation games!” I simply want to play these games. That’s all folks.

Is that so hard to ask?

Don’t even mention how Lair was delayed yesterday to September 4, 2007. Man the game industry is lazy.

[Update]

GamerTagRadio is reporting that Medal of Honor: Airbone is another game being added to the delayed list. It’ll be released on September 4, 2007. I knew a tester on this game and he said it was extremely bad. So I won’t bother making fun of MOH.

Game-to-movie of the day: Painkiller

Painkiller

The film industry conducted a raid on the gaming industry recently, taking with them Painkiller, the acclaimed shooter for PC and Xbox. The “old-skool” sort of game will now be turned into a movie by Guy Walks Into a Bar, the guys behind Starship Dave, starring Eddie Murphy which will be released next year.

Jon Berg and Todd Komarnicki, big guys at Guy Walks Into a Bar will be handling production, along with Matthew Weinberg. No director announced and pretty much no other details divulged as of yet. Berg decided he wanted a movie on the game when he watched a “60 minute” segment on competitive gaming. Uwe Boll refused to comment.

The rights were eventually sold because, according to the DreamCatcher VP, Guy Walks Into a Bar were going “to blend the fast-paced action, the wide array of weaponry and cast of demonic characters in the feature adaptation.” Gee, I was hoping for a nice date movie to cuddle into. Thanks for telling us, genius.

[Via Variety]

Lead Posioning Watch Out!

Deadly Dora

Oh no Batman there’s lead in these toys! We’re going to have to somehow tell almost 1 million people that their children are at risk!!! Damn you Fisher-Price for making the world a terrible place! One where our children can’t even play with their crappy Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego toys.

Think you’re at risk?! Then go here to see pictures of the recalled toys and don’t forget for more information, call Mattel’s recall hot line at 800-916-4498.

[Via Yahoo]

Codemasters and GameTap Sitting In A Tree

Codemasters has signed a deal with GameTap where it must release the games in retailers as well as online exclusively on GameTap on the same day! So now you won’t ever have to leave your home to buy fun things to entertain yourself at home! Codemasters’ titles will be available in with the subscription based service as well as the ad supported versions of GameTap. In addition to that people can buy Codemasters titles through GameTap’s new online digital retail storefront. The first batch of titles are DiRT, Overlord, Clive Barker’s Jericho and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

Another reason to own a PS3

Playstation 3 Grill

As we all once thought – the PS3 does it all – but Sony has proven us wrong yet again. In New Zealand Sony is planning on upping the offerings of the PS3 by including a TV tuner with DVR functionalities! Now how much will this increase the price Sony?

[Via The Press]