PAX East isn’t known for big announcements and this year was no exception. However, there were a few noteworthy tidbits to come out of this year’s convention.
DuckTales Remastered
YES! YES! YES! DUCKTALES! MOTHERFUCKING DUCKTALES!
Sorry, let me compose myself for a minute. It’s a remake of the classic NES game based on the classic Disney cartoon, both of which we all know and love. In addition to the graphical updates, WayForward seems to have added a bit to the game as there are some parts of that trailer that I don’t recognize.
My only question (besides an actual release date) is about the music. The Moon level’s music is considered to be among the best pieces of music written in the 8-bit era. I’m hoping that the original music for that level comes back but as long as that piece comes back in some form or another.
Deadspin’s resident video guru Timothy Burke has been pretty busy yesterday and today gathering clips to post. He does this through one of the biggest video recording setups you’ll ever see. Gee, I want just a little bit of that to create video content for here. [Gizmodo]
Let’s have some fun introducing this link and call it “Victor Sandberg and Missile Command’s Holy Grail.” [ars technica]
Can we declare Anna Kendrick our new nerd queen? She’s actually a huge Game of Thrones fan and has the House Kendrick crest to prove it. [UPROXX]
I didn’t realize it until yesterday but Twitter has officially been around for seven years. Here are seven people who have had their lives changed by Twitter. Sadly, Charlie Sheen isn’t on the list. [CNN]
Over on the sister site, I examine what Major League Gaming and eSports needs to do to make it big and why they won’t be going mainstream anytime soon. [The Lowdown Blog]
A quick FYI for Mass Effect 3 fans: As implied by a post on the BioWare blog and later confirmed on the BioWare Social Network forums, the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer weekend operations have come to an end. They had been weekly since last fall’s release of the Retaliation DLC and bi-weekly prior to that.
With the start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball championship tournament, also known as March Madness, comes a deluge of bracket tournaments to determine the winner of every competition imaginable. One of the more noteworthy is The Consumerist’s bracket to determine the Worst Company in America.
We gamers might have heard of this because the Mass Effect 3 ending and day-one DLC controversies powered EA to victory last year. Well, the tournament is underway for 2013 and EA is in with another chance to repeat.
We’ve gotten plenty of trailers for this summer’s reboot sequel Star Trek Into Darkness but, for the first time, we have some clues as to the plot of the movie.
The newly released international trailer for Into Darkness gives a bit more insight into Benedict Cumberbatch’s still nameless character and how Kirk and the Enterprise get involved.
Just a quick reminder/heads-up that epic looking space sim Rogue System is in the final hours of its Kickstarter campaign. We profiled the game briefly a couple of weeks ago and came to the inevitable conclusion that this thing will be absolutely epic. However, it still needs your money to make it happen.
Click here for the Rogue System Kickstarter. You can pledge until about 11:00 PM EDT (about nine hours after posting).
I have to give PBS’ Off Book credit. They’re putting out some pretty good short documentaries about web culture. It sure shakes the stereotypical image of PBS of kids shows, imported British programming and fundraising drives.
This time out, Off Book looks at the rise of the web comic.
One of the greatest indie games of all-time is Bastion. That’s not an opinion. Consensus among both gamers and critics was that Bastion was absolutely amazing. It won numerous awards for the narrative, music, art design and overall RPG and indie game awards.
Naturally, when Supergiant Games announces that it’s making another game, everyone is going to take notice. This week, Supergiant unveiled their next game, Transistor.
Is it possible that it wasn’t Rebel Alliance pilot Luke Skywalker didn’t destroy the Death Star with a perfectly aimed torpedo from an outdated X-Wing fighter? Is it possible that the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job that went all the way up the Empire to Darth Vader?
YouTuber Graham Putnam examines the possibility in this Loose Change style documentary. Even though it has several factual errors, it’s still a pretty neat video.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Bruce Lee and Liam Neeson did battle in a giant battle royale of action movie superstars? I’m sure a drunken conversation has resulted in a battle between movie heroes but nobody’s really gone beyond the argument over pints.
The Showdown Effect, a new game from Magicka devs Arrowhead Studios, tries to answer the question of which action star would win if placed in a battle to the death. If Super Smash Bros. dropped the more family oriented direction for the comically clichéd action ripped out of 80s and 90s action movies, it would be The Showdown Effect.
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