Exploring Stuff That Makes Life Great
After Activision, Vivendi and LucasArts, we now have confirmation that id has quit the Entertainment Software Association. This comes up as news with id getting ready to rear its epic head once again when it comes out with Rage and Doom 4 in the coming years, along with their id Tech 5 Engine. Hit the jump now!
Continue reading “id leaves ESA too!”
Sometimes there are things that just make you smile. Even though the URL has been
around for so long we can’t remember when it was announced thanks to another website
that has changed. First to the site URL.
Continue reading “Bad Company? Or “Bad Company”?”
With all the hype of Metal Gear Solid 4 and its soon to be released status sometimes its
hard to recall just how the franchise has got to this point. For most it is assumed that
MGS began on the Playstation 1. This is a common mistake and can be easily corrected
in a fun way.
Continue reading “Metal Gear Solid Retrospective”
With the release of the PS3 in all territories and the Wii to be released in it’s final
territories soon sometimes it’s nice to remember those devoted fans. The fanboy’s.
Continue reading “Cult of the Fanboy”
First a little Family Gamer business; while clearing the office out, ready for its transformation into Ollie’s room, I discovered some Nintendo games to give away. If you fancy winning Metroid Prime on Wii (PAL) just post a ‘family gaming moment’ on my Facebook wall before the end of May. Those who follow me on twitter had some advance warning and as you will see there are some great stories already, but there is still plenty of time to get your entry in.
More interestingly for today’s article, my clearout also turned up a misplaced iPod and some unused iTunes cards – the perfect opportunity to try out some iPod games. I’ve wanted to give them s spin since I noticed that two family friendly developers (Harmonix and PopCap) announced their games on Apple’s popular music player.
There are only a handful of video games in my mind that would make for a stellar movie experience. Other than Shenmue, one of them is Bioshock. The rich and beautiful world is coming to the big screen thanks to Universal Pictures. Gore Verbinski who is the Director of Pirates of the Caribbean is going to Direct/Produce this Bioshock film! John Logan, Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd, is in talks to do the screenplay. That’s some high caliber talent.
Obviously Take-Two and Universal are taking this film very seriously unlike Universal’s failed video game based film DOOM. Currently no release date was revealed. Bioshock 2 the video game is being released in 2009.