Sony Reveals More Characters for Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale

Sony Reveals More Characters for <i>Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale</i>

Ever wonder how Uncharted‘s Nathanial Drake would fair against BioShock’s towering Big Daddy? Or what fisticuffs would be like between Twisted Metal‘s Sweet Tooth and PaRappa the Rapper? Well, other than being a bit deranged, you’re in luck. At E3 yesterday, Sony released a new trailer for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale....  read more

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Five Popular Games That Drew Inspiration From Books

Five Popular Games That Drew Inspiration From Books

It’s not uncommon for different forms of entertainment to make a media crossover. TV shows become movies, movies become books, and in some cases, books become video games.  read more

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No BioShock Movie Happening, Says Game's Creator

No <i>BioShock</i> Movie Happening, Says Game's Creator

For all the terrible _Alone in the Dark_ and _Doom_ style video game franchises that get film adaptations, their are just as many great properties that deserve the big screen route. One such game, _Bioshock_, was on it's way to getting its own movie, however the game's creator Ken Levine has stated that this is no longer happening at this point.  read more

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[E3 2011] Sony Reveals PS Vita, New Uncharted 3 Info, More

[E3 2011] Sony Reveals PS Vita, New <em>Uncharted 3</em> Info, More

Closing out day one of E3 2011, the Sony press conference debuted the official title of the NGP as the PlayStation Vita, as well as firmly pushed 3D and PlayStation Move gaming. Here’s what they showed:...  read more

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Ken Levine Says No Motion Control Plans for BioShock: Infinite

Ken Levine Says No Motion Control Plans for <em>BioShock: Infinite</em>

In a recent interview with Play Magazine, BioShock creator Ken Levine made it clear that there are no plans to include motion control options, such as PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect, in the forthcoming BioShock: Infinite....  read more

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Seven of Our Favorite Videogame Scores

Seven of Our Favorite Videogame Scores

Last month, we reported that Clint Mansell, the composer behind dark musical masterpieces Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan would be composing the score to Mass Effect 3, the upcoming action-RPG sci-fi epic from BioWare. This got us thinking about some of our other favorite musical videogame compositions and, to be honest, led to some extended Final Fantasy music listening. Here are seven of the best videogame scores out there....  read more

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Gore Verbinski Explains Why the BioShock Movie Fell Apart

Gore Verbinski Explains Why the <em>BioShock</em> Movie Fell Apart

In a recent interview with ComingSoon.net, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski discussed why the movie adaptation of videogame BioShock fell apart. Turns out, itt was the movie’s R rating, and Verbinski’s dedication to that rating, that kept the movie from moving forward....  read more

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The 20 Best Songs in Videogames

The 20 Best Songs in Videogames

The first commercial videogame involved navigating a rocket ship; it was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1971. Music has been around for um… a lot longer than that. But the two have been intertwined from the nearly the beginning of gaming, as far back as Atari 2600, which allowed gamers to play alongside background “music,” which was really a series of simple loops. ...  read more

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Singularity Review
(Xbox 360)

<em>Singularity</em> Review <br>(Xbox 360)

Developer: Raven Software Publisher: Activision Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Time-bending shooter works despite wearing influences on its uniformed sleeve Like some sort of time-traveling Frankenstein’s monster, Singularity is a game that seems cobbled and scraped together from the vestiges of the games that came before it. Rising from the corpse of Half-Life 2 and sewn together with bits of BioShock, chunks of Raven’s own Wolfenstein and even a dash of TimeShift, Singularity is far from the most original game out there. But it does actually have a few new tricks up its sleeve, the neatest of which is that...  read more

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Start Press: Daddy's Love, His Yoke

Start Press: Daddy's Love, His Yoke

“Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.” (Cormac McCarthy, The Road) *** This past Sunday was Father’s Day, an occasion that has historically compelled me to look outward. It’s a day on which I’ve grown accustomed to considering my own dad, actively muting my lingering nitpicks with his job performance and focusing instead on the ferocity of the man’s affection; his contagious, untidy laughter; his irrepressibility; his resolve...  read more

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