Universal Snags Movie Rights to Atari's Asteroids

By Michael Saba at 11:53 AM on July 6, 2009

The video game movie didn't exactly have a glorious beginning, but they're permanent fixtures in Hollywood these days as studios race to to snap up the film rights to video game properties, enticed by the allure of big box-office returns. It was inevitable that this exuberance would eventually go overboard, and we may have arrived at the genre's shark-jumping moment: Universal Pictures has emerged from a bidding war as the buyer of the rights to the Asteroids movie....  read more

New Xbox Console Rumor Stirred Up by Natal Hype

By Angela Pham at 9:50 AM on June 16, 2009

With the introduction of Microsoft's Project Natal, a camera that tracks motion and recognizes voice and facial expressions, comes the obligatory gossip and hype that sets in whenever a technology giant makes a giant leap in technology. The latest talk toys with a rumored new, refined Xbox 360 console that might be released along with the Natal camera system....  read more

Microsoft Wows E3 Conference With Myriad XBox 360 Plans

By Walton Murphy at 10:30 AM on June 3, 2009

If you've ever felt the urge to update your Twitter or stream radio while playing your favorite video game, now you're in luck. On Monday, Microsoft announced at the E3 conference that XBox 360 will now offer gamers the ability to stream music from Last.fm, check and update their Twitter and Facebook accounts and stream more movies and television shows faster from Netflix. Finally, we can stalk our friends on Facebook while waiting for Madden to load....  read more

The Beatles: Rock Band Details Announced

By Walton Murphy at 2:10 PM on June 2, 2009

It seems like everyone is taking the virtual leap into the karaoke, play-along worlds of Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, announced yesterday that on Sept. 9, fans will be able sing and play along with the Fab Four, in a five-button sort of way....  read more

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony on the Way

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 9:30 AM on May 28, 2009

Uh oh. In this age of renewed Prop. 8 outrage and rigged upsets for gay American Idol contestants, Rockstar Games has announced that the latest downloadable episode for Grand Theft Auto IV will be The Ballad of Gay Tony, which will follow “legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka 'Gay Tony')" and his dutiful thug assistant. ...  read more

Guitar Hero 5 Lineup includes White Stripes, Vampire Weekend, Johnny Cash, Many More

By Joe Shearer at 12:30 PM on May 20, 2009

In the ongoing Battle of the Band Games between Guitar Hero and Rock Band, the former has once again scored big. According to NeoSeeker.com, there will be no less than 85 bands contributing to Guitar Hero 5. ...  read more

Call of Duty Movie Might Be On the Way

By Muriel Vega at 1:00 PM on May 12, 2009

One of the Top 5 best-selling franchises across all video game platforms in Europe and the U.S., Call of Duty, might be coming to a movie screen near you, along with World of Warcraft, according to The Hollywood Reporter....  read more

PlayStation 2 favorite Shadow of the Colossus coming to the big screen

By Muriel Vega at 10:45 AM on April 10, 2009

Following the trend of books-into-movies, movies-into-books, and CDs-into-musicals, Sony will adapt the 2005 PlayStation 2 game Shadow of the Colossus into a full-length feature, with The Scorpion King's Kevin Misher producing. Colossus is following in the footsteps of Dante's Inferno, which just got an X2 screenplay writer for the movie adaptation. ...  read more

Marvel Universe multiplayer online games slated for 2012

By Muriel Vega at 2:30 PM on April 1, 2009

With Captain America and The Avengers movies slated for 2011 and 2012 respectively, Marvel is already planning to release multiplayer online games to follow the films in 2012. The company announced a couple of weeks ago that it will partner and sign a 10-year exclusivity agreement with video game developer Gazillion Entertainment to produce the online titles based on its library of superhero characters....  read more

Dead Rising 2 may feature 6,000 zombies on one screen?

By Matt Goodlett at 1:00 PM on April 1, 2009

Dead Rising 2, the much-anticipated multi-platform video game, may offer the opportunity to mow through up to 6,000 on-screen zombies at a time, says Laura Scholl, product manager for Mental Mill....  read more

Van Halen next in line for Guitar Hero

By Liz Stinson at 3:28 PM on March 10, 2009

It was bound to happen eventually. First there was Aerosmith, then Metallica. Now, in a logical third step towards a trinity of arena-rock and roll mainstays, Van Halen has supposedly been tapped for the next solo Guitar Hero game....  read more

Batman: Arkham Asylum slated for summer release

By Muriel Vega at 3:22 PM on March 10, 2009

Sadly, The Dark Knight video game production halted earlier this year and we were left with no game companion to the record-breaking movie. Batman has yet to have a truly great game, but according to MTV Multiplayer's sneak peek, Batman: Arkham Asylum might be it....  read more

God of War III details arrive

By Matt Goodlett at 9:32 AM on February 19, 2009

An extended trailer for God of War III for the PS3 is up and shows an impressive scale to the final installment of the trilogy, which is currently under development and scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2009. ...  read more

Watchmen: The End is Nigh game gets sneak peak

By Muriel Vega at 10:27 AM on February 18, 2009

A two-part episodic video game, Watchmen: The End is Nigh, will be the official video game release for the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, according to MTV Multiplayer. The video game is set for a March release and is available for download-only through Xbox 360, Play Station 3 and PC. The End is Nigh is another release to add to the growing list of download-only titles, a new trend among video games....  read more

Afro Samurai anime updates with sequel, PS3 game

By Matt Goodlett at 3:30 PM on February 9, 2009

Afro Samurai: The Game, based on an anime series featuring the voice of Samuel L. Jackson as the Hendrix-resembling, tough-as-nails samurai, was released as a PS3 title on Jan. 27....  read more

Guitar Hero publisher confirms: DJ Hero in the works

By Muriel Vega at 10:24 AM on February 3, 2009

Not in the mood to become a Rock Star? How about a DJ? According to MTV News, Guitar Hero publisher, Activision Blizzard, is working on yet another spin-off of its best-selling game, a DJ-based music game called DJ Hero....  read more

Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia gets date

By Rachel Dovey at 4:28 PM on February 2, 2009

What do you get when you mix medieval Persia, an evil vizier, an hourglass trickling sand that has the power to transform an entire village into demons, and a dagger that can reverse the flow of time? According to Disney's upcoming release schedule, the answer is Jake Gyllenhaal....  read more

Best of 2008: It's your turn

By Liz Stinson at 2:13 PM on February 2, 2009

Paste announces its 2008 Reader Survey...just in time for Feb. '09!  read more

The Dark Knight video game halts production

By Muriel Vega at 10:55 AM on January 26, 2009

As previously reported, The Dark Knight video game was in the works. However, due to various technical difficulties and licensing rights, the game project collapsed. ...  read more

Ghostbusters video game gets a release date

By Matt Goodlett at 2:13 PM on January 13, 2009

If you've played the first Ghostbusters game on the original NES, you may recall driving around in a white box meant to represent the Ghostbusters' Ecto-1, and disappointment that the game didn't live up to the movie. The news that Ghostbusters: The Video Game has made it out of production limbo, and is solidly slated for release on June 16 for all major systems might finally make up for that. ...  read more