PAX East 2011 came to a close this past sunday, three days of amazing gaming goodness. For those of you who don’t know, PAX is of course the Penny Arcade Expo, a convention that celebrates all avenues of gaming, from upcoming video games to D&D and card games. There are two, PAX Prime in Seattle, …
Check out this cool NES artwork made by artist Jeff Bartell, if only it were a real game! Have a great weekend!
This will be it. I know it! Finally, a director who might be able to undertake the seemingly unproven task of making a good movie out of a video game. Gore Verbinski has left the helm of ‘Pirates 4’ and focus on ‘Bioshock,’ an adaptation of the best selling video game. No word on how …
WoW Insider, a blog for the famous MMO World of Warcraft is reporting that Steve Preeg, a visual effects artist who picked up an Oscar for Benjamin Button on Sunday night is a guild leader on World of Warcraft. Who says MMO players have no life? Just thought it was an interesting little news item. …
Despite less then stellar reviews, LucasArts latest ‘Star Wars’ themed video game ‘The Force Unleashed,’ has sold 1.5 million copies in its first five days. The multi-platform release (everything from Xbox, to PSP, to iPhone) still doesn’t beat ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’s’ sales records, but is on track to be one of the top games …
The former CEO of Marvel Studios has optioned the rights to Bioware’s hit RPG video game ‘Mass Effect’ The game which was released exclusively to the Xbox 360 and PC last year sets the player into the role of elite human soldier Commander Shepard, in the year 2183.
Finally, the date has been set for the new World of Warcraft expansion! ‘World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King’ is set to be released November 13, 2008. Mark Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard said “We’re Looking forward to launching Wrath of the Lich King, and finally giving World of Warcraft players a …
This next one will come to relief to many, EA has withdrawn its very public battle to take over Grand Theft Auto publisher, Take-Two. EA was looking to integrate many Take-Two brands into its slate for the holiday season. EA is notorious for its quick releases, and yearly retreads (read: any of the companies sports …
id Software head Todd Hollenshead has been vocal about film adaptations of his video game properties this week. He confirms that Roger Avary (The Rules of Attraction) is currently working on the script for a film version of ‘Return to Castle Wolfenstein’
It’s Monday, why not start it off with a video? Masters of Hyrule have put together a video of some strange moments in Video Game history, I’m sure there are plenty more of this, some are a bit funny, some are downright immature, but hey, what else was Youtube made for?