“Developers should design innovative, ethical and personal art because players are hungry for inspiring new games.”
When making statements like this Jonathan Blow has a lot to live up to and with Braid his debut platform/puzzle game not only does he live up to them, he manages to bring the world of video games one step closer to a respectable art form.
Yesterday Giant Bomb put up a Quick Look for The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom; a game which until now had completely escaped me. Taking the role of Mr. Winterbottom players bend time and space in order to eat as many pies as possible, clearly the game has its priorities right.
Since it’s still frosty outside it’s only fitting that there be a snow themed horror movie on the horizon. Frozen, Hatchet director Adam Greens latest film, follows three skiers (Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers) trapped on a ski-lift of a holiday resort. With the resort abandoned for a week and hypothermia starting to set in the group must figure out how to get out both alive and in one piece.
With some hype and an interesting if slightly spoilerish trailer Frozen has a lot going for it and if it can manage not to squander it’s good will with some dumb character moves could be a good start to the horror genre in 2010. It currently has a US release date of February 5th but hopefully won’t be too long before it’s release this side of the pond. The trailer can be found below.
The end of the year means only one thing, end of year lists and below are 15 of my favourite music videos of the year. There’s some short film, some promos, some live performances and one funny youtube. Not included is a Rammstein video which I thought was best not to link to just because of the kind of hits I’d attract from it.
Paranormal Activity
Directed by: Oren Peli
Starring: Katie Featherston // Micah Sloat
Running time: 86 min
Genre: Horror // Thriller
It’s been ten years since The Blair Witch Project was released in cinemas and it seems that ten years was ample time for audiences to once again fall in love with a ghost story within the guise of a mockumentary. It may seem odd to discuss The Blair Witch Project straight away but the similarities that Paranormal Activity has to it are too great to ignore; both are simple ghosts stories, both present themselves under the illusion of “found footage” and both fully take place completely through a handheld camera. That’s not to say that Paranormal Activity is just a cheap copy though and along the way it manages to offer a few tricks of its own.
Frank West may be off busy fighting Ryu and some anime characters but that doesn’t mean that the zombie destroying fun of Dead Rising is over. Thankfully Chuck Greene is up to the challenge of chopping up some zombies in Dead Rising 2 and with the latest trailer for Capcoms zombie killing simulator comes a glimpse of the multi-player mode sorely missing from the first entry.
No More Heroes is the best third party and “mature” game currently on the Wii. No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle will probably follow that trend. The Tokyo Game Show has given a few more brief videos for the title including a new playable character Shinobu; an assassin from the original No More Heroes and a better look at the revamped mini games within the game.
Continue reading ‘Tokyo Game Show 09: No More No More Heroes’
More Tokyo Game Show news this time in the form of a short but cute trailer for The Last Guardian (more awesomely known as Trico, the man-eating erne in Japan)
Continue reading ‘The Last Guardian: Your Griffin thing probably dies’
Frank West isn’t just a reporter anymore. The protaganist of Dead Rising has made the move to fighting games with Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars , the seventh instalment to Capcoms Vs. series which has included Marvel Vs. Capcom and Capcom Vs. Snk.
Continue reading ‘Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: 18 Billion Damage Points’
Tokyo Game Show is upon us once again and already news is starting to pour out. High up on our upcoming games list is Splinter Cell: Conviction which unfortunately was another victim to the great 2009 Christmas Release Exodus of this year. Those worrying that it would slip out of the Q1 2010 release need worry no more though as TGS has given us a release date trailer, because every thing needs a trailer apparently. So set your calendars for February 23, 2010 and get ready to kick some terrorist ass all over again. Michael Ironside demands you do.
