The latest entry in the Nasty-Things-On-A-Plane genre is the WiiWare game Last Flight, which puts you on an airliner swarming with vampires. Marcin Kawa of Bloober Team, the game’s developer, recently explained his design process, why he chose WiiWare, and what it means to be hardcore in the gaming world:
Wii owners with that itch to [...]
Remember Gladiator? When it was first released, I was a little too young to appreciate its gory, macho aesthetic. But a couple years later, when I watched it with my dad as a rite of passage, I had to give some props to Ridley Scott’s sword-swinging epic. The story of a gladiator is a truly [...]
I’m gonna earn some simultaneous geek/literati cred right now by sharing this: I just finished up Aeschylus’ Oresteia, and it’s convinced me that all things epic and Greek must come in threes. Of course, in order to get this to work, you have to imagine a third companion for the Iliad and the Odyssey, but [...]
If you like your game developers a little on the eccentric side, Goichi Suda, aka Suda51, is your kind of guy. As the creative mind behind Wii action thriller No More Heroes, Suda has brought a stylish, often ridiculous brand of ultra-violence to the otherwise tame waters of Nintendo’s current system.
1UP’s Ray Barnholt recently spoke [...]
Some of my favorite sci-fi films seamlessly combine the new and futuristic with the historical, antique and classic. Serenity is definitely an example of this, with space-ships throwing out blasts of black smoke and smugglers hauling herds of cattle across the stars. 2K Games’ Borderlands has the the same feel, and in such a world, [...]
As far as digital distributors go, Direct2Drive is one of the oldest and best known. In a business that aims to put gamers first, Direct2Drive has offered up some pretty sweet deals over the years. But nothing beats it’s five-year anniversary special: a five-week-long blowout featuring 50 quality titles for the price of $5 each.
This [...]
I’m not sure I entirely understand Fat Princess as an experience, but I think that’s mostly the point. I do recognize, however, that it has one of the greatest titles in the history of video gaming. Fans of the hectic strategy gameplay will now have a new stomping ground to conquer: the ‘New Pork’ level, [...]
Often billed as the ‘World’s Greatest Detective,’ Batman has put away some of the most notorious fictional criminals in history. But with the release of Arkham Asylum (which I definitely plan to stop writing about sometime in the next decade), he’s taken on a new beat: REAL LIFE. That’s right–a virtual, video-game super-hero has started [...]
I really dug Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Hack-and-slash brawlers like Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath always seemed like a good fit for the super-hero genre. Captain America, Spider-Man and company are always clobbering whole hordes of foes in exotic locations, so the wide-open floor plans and regenerating baddies of these games are especially appropriate.
The first [...]
