Telltale is currently riding high on the success of its Walking Dead
series, but that's not the only hot property that the company would like
to work on. That list includes franchises like Halo, Half-Life, and
Star Wars.
The GI offices are just getting back into the swing of things after
taking a few weeks off for the holidays. Thank goodness the weekend is
finally here, so we can get back to all those great games we started
over the break.
THQ recently filed for
Chapter 11 with the intention of selling to Clearlake Capital Group,
however a recently objection by creditors and trustees have complicated
the sale.
Baseball season is about to start (relatively) and that means that
another edition of Sony's homerun hitter, MLB The Show, is about to
release. Check out the first trailer of this year's edition.
An art student recently put a pinball machine to work making modern
art. If cats can do it, why not pinball machines. Jackson Pollock eat
your heart out.
BioWare recently made Star Wars: The Old Republic free-to-play, but
the company isn't done with the MMO. The game will soon be getting new
operations, flashpoints, difficulty modes, player-versus-player areas,
and same sex sex.
Who's cooler than a band's lead guitarist? Certainly not the singer. Maybe that's
why Activision's Sing Hero never made it past the early development
stages.
The Walking Dead is at the top of it's game right now, but
Activision's upcoming FPS based on the AMC television show doesn't look
like it will stand up to the franchise's usual level of quality.
The Walking Dead is at the top of it's game right now, but
Activision's upcoming FPS based on the AMC television show doesn't look
like it will stand up to the franchise's usual level of quality.
The next Lego game won't be based on an outside license, but on on
Lego's own brand of fantasy-themed Chima sets. It also won't be one
game, but three!
Nintendo Buddha, Shigeru Miyamoto said that he didn't like the design
choices made during Pikmin 2, and that the third entry will be more in
line with the first Pikmin game.
Start the New Year off right. Go eat a whole pizza, take a five hour
nap, and then watch this Zelda-inspired animated short entitled Link’s
Triumph. Now it's time to go back to work playing video games; you can't
slack off all year.
If you are the kind of gamer that likes to wait a year or two to buy
your sports games then you might want to know that EA will soon be
shutting down it's online servers for many of the games it released a
couple years ago.
Ubisoft has been on a push to turn many of its properties into big budget films. Splinter Cell, Assassins' Creed, and Watch Dogs are all in various degrees of development, but Ubisoft isn't stopping there; next up on the list is Ghost Recon.
