Yearly Archives: 2013

EA Has Money For You… Thanks to a Lawsuit Settlement

EA Has Money For You… Thanks to a Lawsuit Settlement

Apr 18

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Are you one of the millions of gamers who regularly buy one of EA Sports’ football games? Thanks to a lawsuit over EA Sports’ exclusive licenses to make games for various sports leagues, you can get some money back. If you bought an EA Sports Madden NFL, NCAA Football or Arena Football game between January 1, 2005, and June 21, 2012, you’re entitled to a not insubstantial claim.

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The History of LucasArts

LucasArts is and was one of my all-time favourite publishers. They facilitated some great games from when I was growing up like the Dark Horse / Jedi Knight series, Tie Fighter, Rebel Assault (Shut up! I liked it.) and Knights of the Old Republic. That’s not counting the other massively popular LucasArts games like Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Grim Fandango.

Victor Lucas of the popular Canadian gaming news show Electric Playground looks back at the history of LucasArts. For a quasi-Easter Egg, watch for a young Geoff Keighley at the 3:34 mark as he worked in his early days in the gaming press.

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Kirk Needs a Bigger Ship in the Latest Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer

Apr 17

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The third Star Trek Into Darkness trailer brings us a little less Cumberbatch and a lot more Kirk as we finally get to see a bit more of what the crew of the Enterprise is up against.

In the last trailer, Cumberbatch came off as smarter and more charismatic than Kirk. Now, Cumberbatch comes off as a bit crazier and much scarier thanks to his massive ship with epic armaments. Kirk looks to be in over his head and has gotten his ship in and crew into some pretty deep shit.

Star Trek Into Darkness is hits theatres on May 17th.

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Building (Critical) Consensus: Injustice: Gods Among Us

Apr 17

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injustice-gods-among-us-box-artI don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but I’m a DC Comics guy. I feel as though that would make a good t-shirt. Specifically, I’m a Superman guy. I know I mentioned this one last week. Now, we finally get our chance to pit Superman against Batman. Oh, and most of the other DC Comics regulars also appear in NetherRealm’s new fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us.

We’ve gotten a DC Comics fighting game from a Mortal Kombat developer before. That was the entirely forgettable Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe by Midway. With NetherRealm now at the helm of Mortal Kombat and having just released the best story in fighting game history in Mortal Kombat (9), could they do something special with Injustice?

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Hotline Miami in Real Life

What happens when Hotline Miami invades the streets? The crew at Mega 64 found out that people are either confused, concerned or far to quick to call the cops when a man in a chicken mask assaults two guys using a baseball bat.

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Comic Book Pull List for April 17, 2013

Apr 16

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justice-league-19Since I like telling stories to make these comic book pull list post less listy, here’s one for this week. I’ve gone to the local comic book emporium enough that they offered me my own file. See, you don’t have to namedrop yourself as an occasionally read internet blogger to get a file at your neighbourhood comic book shop.

Right, time for the quick hits of the week. Superman and kryptonite makes this week’s Justice League #19 one of my must reads. Okay, that and the release of Injustice today has me hyped about all things DC/Justice League. In Judge Dredd #6, technology has gone rogue in Mega City One which leaves Dredd stuck without a weapon or backup against a large gang of thugs. And who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows. Hahahaha! I mean, The Shadow: Year One #2 is out today, too.

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Is Dredd 3D Getting a Comic Book Sequel?

Apr 16

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I’ve not exactly made a secret of the fact that I’m a Judge Dredd fan. That’s thanks in large part to the great Dredd movie of 2012. I honestly think that Dredd (3D) was every bit as good as The Dark Knight Rises. Since then, I’ve become a regular reader of IDW’s Judge Dredd comic.

Now, 2000AD has sent out an image that teases some sort of Dredd sequel based on the 2012 movie. It’s likely another comic book series but we can always hope that it’s a new movie.

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A New Street Fighter Web Series Needs Your Money on Kickstarter

Apr 16

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street-fighter-assassins-fistVideo game adaptations to a live-action dramatic performance don’t have the best track records. The best ones tend to be smaller scale adaptations by independent groups rather than big budget Hollywood productions. For example, the Mortal Kombat: Legacy series was a well-received adaptation of the game while the movies were slightly not at all well-received.

Now, Street Fighter might be getting a web series treatment similar to Mortal Kombat: Legacy called Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist. All it needs is $960,000 from Kickstarter funders to make it happen.

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What if Disney Made Game of Thrones?

That’s a frightening thought but the result is a fantastic video. So what would Game of Thrones look like (and sound like) if it was done in typical Disney fashion? In this video, Daenerys and Ser Jorah have a duet in the classic Disney princess style.

George R. R. Martin would be spinning in his grave at the thought of this. Wait, he’s still alive? How bloody long is he planning to take to write the last two books?

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The XCOM Shooter’s Web Presence Disappears Which Means…?

Apr 15

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On Friday, Digital Trends noticed that the official web presence for the much delayed XCOM shooter has disappeared. The former website for the game xcom.com/xcom now has a 404 error message. 2K Games also has appeared to have pulled all the trailers and gameplay footage from their official YouTube channel.

This development comes on the heels of a report from a couple of weeks ago that said that 2K Games had registered some new web domains for the game. Rumours now suggest that the XCOM shooter has been re-branded The Bureau but will keep the same premise as the originally planned game.

The Bureau/XCOM is said to be a third-person shooter after originally being designed as a first-person shooter. The last we heard, 2K plans to distribute this digitally sometime during their 2014 fiscal year which runs from April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014.

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