Video Games

New Monsters trailer finally shows us MONSTERS! (7 screen grabs)

Published on: 8th September, 2010

There’s a new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi film Monsters and we finally get a glimpse of the actual monsters from the flick. You can briefly see them in the trailer below, and we took some screen grabs for you so you can get a slightly better look.

Warren Spector First Pitched Sci-fi Game to Disney

Published on: 8th September, 2010

When Deus Ex creator Warren Spector originally met with Disney, it wasn’t to discuss Epic Mickey . Instead, Spector was apparently set on selling a sci-fi game that could potentially have been seen as a spirtual follow-up to Deus Ex (via Develop ). Spector said he was leery about meeting with Disney to pitch the concept, since he was convinced that they wouldn’t be interested. “I went into the meeting room, pitched them my stuff, and sure enough I was right. The guys started texting in the middle of the meeting. I was convinced they were not interested,” he said.

The Hollywood Reporter: ‘American’ wins holiday weekend box office

Published on: 8th September, 2010

Exit popcorn-pic season, hello movies for grown-ups: Focus Features’ George Clooney starrer "The American" topped the domestic box office with an estimated $16.4 million during the summer-ending Labor Day weekend. The assassin-themed thriller rang up $19.5 million in its first six days, after unspooling midweek to get a jump on the four-day frame. Two other wide openers bore the same R rating as "American" but seemed more restricted in audience appeal. Fox’s crime actioner "Machete" topped daily rankings with $3.9 million in its first day of release on Friday, but the Robert Rodriguez-shepherded splatterfest quickly ceded its lead to the more broadly appealing Clooney pic and fetched $14 million in second place through Monday. Warners’ romantic comedy "Going the Distance" — starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long — proved the weakest of the weekend debutantes, wooing $8.6 million in fifth place during its first four days. Elsewhere, Sony’s heist actioner "Takers" took in $13.5 million in its sophomore session to finish third on the frame and pile cumulative coin to $40 million, while Lionsgate’s horror pic "The Last Exorcism" conjured $8.8 million in fourth place for an 11-day cume of $33.6 million. Outside of the top rankings, Fox’s special edition re-release of "Avatar" posted another $2.9 million in its second weekend to push record cume for the James Cameron epic to $758.2 million. Labor Day is marked annually on the first Monday of September, both in the U.S. and Canada. Collectively, the top 10 pictures registered $93.2 million, or 3% less than top performers in last year’s comparable holiday-stretched weekend, Rentrak said. Read the full Hollywood Reporter article here

Mario Games We Demand Be Included in Super Mario All-Stars

Published on: 8th September, 2010

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FMV Adventure Starring MST3K Cast, Peter Graves Nearing Release After a Decade

Published on: 7th September, 2010

A bit of living history will become available to PC gamers in November. Strategy First is preparing to release Darkstar: The Interactive Movie , an FMV adventure game that has been in the works for roughly a decade. Billed as an adventure game in the style of Myst featuring 360-degree panoramics and more than 13 hours of video, it stars a good chunk of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast as well as actor Peter Graves in his final role. The story is set 300 years in the future, with the main character awakening from a lengthy hibernation. MST3K creator Joel Hodgson stars as the commander, with Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff and J. Elvis Weinstein also filling roles. Graves, who was a frequent targets thanks to appearances in films such as Attack of the Eye Creatures , serves as the narrator.

Game Night with Batman: Brave and the Bold

Published on: 7th September, 2010

Live video by Ustream Time : Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 5:00 PM Location : Watch the embedded video player above. Can 1UP save Gotham City from having its citizens be turned into cats? Who gets to play Batman while the other person is stuck as Robin? How useful is Booster Gold when you call on him during battle? What’s it like to have a tiny little fanboy from the Fifth Dimension come by and drop health and anvils all over the place? These questions, and more, will be addressed (and possibly answered) in our quick sessions with Batman: The Brave And The Bold for Game Night.

Disney’s TANGLED gets ‘Double Rainbow’ Viral Parody

Published on: 7th September, 2010

Hey Gang! Here’s a great little viral video for Disney’s upcoming animated film Tangled . The video is a parody of the classically hilarious “Double Rainbow” video. I couldn’t help but have a good chuckle at this thing. The new video recently popped up on the official Facebook fan page for the film. The video features a happy-go-lucky cameraman that comes across Rapunzel’s tower. The amazing scene capturs his state of wonder as he approaches and climbs inside. The film hits theaters on November 24th. Check out the funny video below and hit us up with your thoughts!

Latest PS3 Update Ends PSJailbreak Exploit

Published on: 7th September, 2010

Sony has officially released a new firmware update for PS3, version 3.42, which seems to only include “additional security features” as explained by Sony’s director of hardware marketing John Koller in the official announcement on the PlayStation Blog. As rumored and then confirmed by Eurogamer, this firmware update’s intention was to stop the much-discussed “PSJailbreak” exploit — in which users used a USB dongle to “fool” a system into thinking it is a debug unit, allowing installation of “unsigned code ” (the expectation being pirate games) on the system.

‘Judge Dredd’ Movie Gets Renamed, More Story Details Posted Online

Published on: 7th September, 2010

The new “Judge Dredd” movie could be getting renamed “Dredd,” according to a website for one of the studios producing the film. According to film and television studio IM Global (one of the producing partners for the project), the official title of the movie will be “Dredd” (not “Judge Dredd”) — a change that could indicate studios’ desire to distance the upcoming movie even further from the 1995 Sylvester Stallone film based on the character. The website also offered a few more details about the movie’s plot that should give fans hope that the next incarnation will adhere a bit more closely to the character’s “2000 AD” comic book roots. “Dredd” star Karl Urban previously insisted that the new film is “in no way related” to the critically panned 1995 “Judge Dredd” movie, and promised it will get back to the character’s violent, gritty roots. Here’s what the studio had to say about the film’s plot: DREDD takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s revered comic strip. “Judge Dredd” is expected to begin filming soon and hit theaters in 2012. Let us know what you think in the comment section or on Twitter ! You can also follow me, Splash Page editor Rick Marshall , on Twitter!

BioWare Details Mass Effect 2 Player Statistics

Published on: 7th September, 2010

Like many developers these days, BioWare likes to keep tabs on player activity in its games. It’s nothing sinister; the studio merely collects anonymous data based on what in-game actions you take (or don’t take). But unlike most developers who gather this sort of info, BioWare just went public with some of the user statistics for its biggest franchise. Executive producer Casey Hudson sat down with IGN to discuss the player stats for Mass Effect 2 , revealing some fascinating discoveries about user behavior. For example: Players skipped just 15 percent of conversations in BioWare’s sci-fi sequel, with a majority of those skips occurring on the game’s hub worlds rather than during climactic story moments. “If we found that 80 percent or 90 percent of the lines were being skipped, we would have to reevaluate the work that we were putting into the digital acting,” Hudson explained.

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