Video 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.
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?
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.
Source: Digital Trends
What happens when the TARDIS acts up with one of its occasional bouts of having a mind of its own? The Doctor and Clara end up trapped on a Soviet nuclear submarine at the height of the Cold War with an old enemy who just happens to be hell-bent on destruction. Don’t you just hate it when you have a day like that?
If you’re going to make a big mistake in a news story, don’t make it in one that geeks may be reading (which would be all of them but let’s just let people have their stereotype for the moment). [Poynter]
Indie developer Nathan Fouts doesn’t like seeing quick, cash-grabbing ports on the upcoming (kinda already released) Ouya. He’s gone as far as given porting tips to devs for things that they need to fix in moving from mobile to console. [Indie Games]
Short on content this week, Kotaku is doing a Mass Effect Week. So here’s BioWare founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk talking with GI about gaming, development, the gamers and, of course, EA. [GamesIndustry]
Today on the sister site, I look at why the upcoming console war could be a massive failure for all three manufacturers. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with the likes of the Steam Box, Ouya or GameStick. [The Lowdown Blog]
Uruk-hai swords are useful for more than just slicing through humans. [Apparently Fish Need Bicycles]
Ahead of next week’s release of the DC Comics fighting game Injustice, Jackie and I have been debating who would win in the ultimate fight between Batman and Superman. No other pair of battling superheroes can stir up the same debate that these two can, even the whole lot of Marvel heroes.
Yesterday, we made our cases for our superhero of choice. As a long time fan, Jackie said that Batman beats Superman. Being a fan since childhood, I said that Superman would beat the Bat. Now, it’s your turn to tell us which superhero would win the ultimate fight.
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In the run up to the release of Injustice: Gods Among Us next week, we’re looking ahead to the game by answering the ultimate question. It’s not life, the universe and everything. It’s who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman. Today, Steve looks at why Superman would win.
Superman wins because he’s freaking Superman! That’s it. Mic drop…
Okay, you want an actual answer? Well, Superman is very appropriately named because he is the most super of all superheroes. He can fly, he has x-ray vision, he has super hearing and vision (not just x-ray vision), he can shoot solar energy from his eyes and is almost completely invulnerable.
There is only one way that you can hurt Superman and there lies the only possible way that Batman can beat Superman.
As a geek blogger, it kind of goes without saying that I’m a huge fan of the NBC sitcom Community. While, this season hasn’t grabbed me in the same was as past years, it’s still a damn good series. So good, in fact, that PBS has taken notice of it. The question of life, the universe and everything: Is Community a great postmodern TV show?
By the way, Community is on tonight at 8:00 PM on NBC.
I should have written this review before I saw the season finale of The Walking Dead. You spend the majority of the season building up this inevitable confrontation between Rick and the Governor, the prison and Woodbury. What we end up getting is just an awful pay-off that doesn’t make sense. Presumably, this was Glen Mazzara’s revenge for getting fired.
And that brings me to the Organ Trail. No, not The Oregon Trail. The Organ Trail is an homage to the classic Oregon Trail and the zombie survival genre of movies that sees you try to traverse from Washington, D.C., to a safe zone on the west coast while fighting zombies, eluding bandits and just trying to make it in one piece.
In an unprecedented feat of terribleness, Electronic Arts has become the first-ever repeat winner of The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America poll. This year, they once again beat Bank of America to claim the Golden Poo.
While the Worst Company in America is a misnomer for The Consumerist’s poll as these things tend to degenerate into something closer to the most hated company, EA should still be taking heed of the massive victories they’ve been able to score in the poll. The problem is that they’re convinced that the results of the poll are largely unfounded. Sounds like EA wants to three-peat.
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