Zen Studios has been on a roll in 2011, with the release of several pinball tables for both Zen Pinball and Pinball FX 2, namely the Marvel Pinball tables. But this holiday season, it's continuing to build on its reputation by releasing a quartet of new tables. Coming next week, Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue will give you four more reasons to flip out -- and for moderately cheap.
Legendary Entertainment (The Dark Knight Rises) is developing several videogame projects, including WarCraft based on Blizzard Entertainment’s game franchise and Mass Effect based on BioWare’s franchise. The producers of the Mass Effect movie were at San Diego Comic-Con this year. They didn’t have time to answer all of the fan questions at the panel, so they posted the below questions on their Web site. Filmmakers are working with Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson on the project, which is being written by Mark Protosevich (Thor).
Paramount Digital Entertainment has taken a unique approach with its new Facebook game, Mission: Impossible The Game. Developer Funtactix has created a very deep multiplayer online experience for fans of the film franchise that boasts 200 levels. The game currently available focuses on the first three films in the franchise and a new level based on Ghost Protocol will be launching in December before the new Tom Cruise movie from Paramount Pictures opens. Sam Glassenberg, CEO of Funtactix, talks about this new project in this exclusive interview.
Chinese online game company ZQGame has partnered with Los Angeles-based SEE Games to create, co-invest in, and publish an original MMO (massively multiplayer online) game based on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s 2012 summer event film, Total Recall (2012), starring Colin Farrell. The deal represents the first time a Hollywood entity has partnered with a game company from China to develop an online game in-full.
There's an overabundance of dancing/rhythm games to choose from on the Kinect this holiday season, and it's vitally important to pick the right one, lest your party turn into a forgettable affair. For that, we can't recommend Dance Central 2 enough. It gets everything just right. Meanwhile, 505 Games' Grease Dance, based on the hit film/play of the same name, can't manage to find that beat. Not even with Greased Lightning.
Movies based on popular video games are usually a crapshoot. We say this because of the history of most of these films, though a couple, like the original Mortal Kombat, have escaped unscathed. But the future isn't looking too rosy, mainly because of the argument of who should retain control of the rights and production. So we've decided to take a look at all sides and see what the best way to go is. It sounds like the upcoming film adaptation of Assassin's Creed needs it.
Fans of Assassin’s Creed have more than Ubisoft's Revelations to look forward to on November 15th. There’s a feature film in the works from Sony Pictures based on the original game. And now one of the main characters from the franchise is getting his own TV show. Starz Entertainment has greenlit a new original adventure series titled “Da Vinci’s Demons,” developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. Written by David S. Goyer, co-writer of blockbuster and critically-acclaimed films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and writer of the highly anticipated Man of Steel, the eight-episode series is scheduled to begin production in early 2012.
VIZ Media, the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, will release a new anime feature-length film, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, on DVD November 8th. The movie is based on the highly popular Professor Layton series of video games for the Nintendo DS. The DVD features both subtitled and dubbed English dialogue options.
NEVERDIE Studios, creators of the ROCKtropia Virtual World, a sophisticated, next-gen, cash prize-based game world with mythology drawn from pop culture, has launched a unique, in-game event for players of its recently released massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Hunt The Thing. This new movie-length MMO event is inspired by Universal Pictures’ current thriller The Thing, now in theatres nationwide. The game was developed using Crytek’s CryENGINE2 technology.
It’s been a long, hard road for Grimlock when it comes to video games. In fact, barring an appearance as a playable character in a Flash game for the Hasbro website, we haven’t really seen the Dinobot get any sort of video game respect. But that’ll change by this time next year, as Activision has announced that full details for the upcoming sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be coming to the November issue of Game Informer. And one thing we know for sure – Grimlock will be a featured character.
When it aired a few years ago on Fox, Arrested Development was quite simply the best comedy show on television, with its over-the-top characters (Gob is the man!), ridiculous scenarios and dead-pan humor. And when it went away, we got all sad. However, news is now spreading like wildfire that the Bluth family will return to TV one more time, before setting down the path for the highly anticipated movie.
Trekkers have a lot to look forward to all of a sudden in the gaming space. There’s the new Star Trek game coming out from Paramount Pictures Interactive Entertainment and developer Digital Extremes in 2012, which is set in the new movie universe. And for those who want to go retro, there’s Star Trek: Infinite Space. The new free-to-play, browser-based game is set in the Deep Space Nine universe, which also correlates with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gameforge talks about the new game from developer Keen Games, which focuses on epic space battles, in this exclusive video interview below.
David Maisel, the new head of Rovio’s North American operations, will be the opening keynote speaker at the second annual 3D Gaming Summit: 3D Gaming and Beyond on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood, CA. Maisel, who is heading up Angry Birds migration to Hollywood film and television, will speak at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, September 22nd.
Lionsgate's Conan the Barbarian failed to flex any muscle at the box office, bringing in a meager $20 million in the U.S. and an additional $27 million overseas. But Funcom has released a new movie tie-in, The Savage Coast of Turan, a new and adventure pack for the massively multiplayer online (MMO) Age of Conan: Unchained. Players will meet both characters and monsters from the recent Conan the Barbarian movie, and explore the epic locations and storyline around the Persian influenced areas of Ardashir in several new dungeons and world regions. Players can purchase access to the adventure pack through the in-game store available to both Premium members and free players.
LOS ANGELES – At Call of Duty XP 2011, Activision debuted the world premiere of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish. The short film is a sequel by filmmakers from digital agency We Can Pretend and visual effects company The Junction. Set between the events of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2, the film tracks the origin story for soldiers Soap and Price. The sequel was funded by Activision, after the original became an Internet sensation and the game maker Infinity Ward loved what they saw from the passion project. See what Activision funding adds to fan filmmaking in the video below.
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight… take the oath to serve and protect when Green Lantern flies onto Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download on October 14th from Warner Home Entertainment Group. The Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack and the Blu-ray Combo Pack will offer Sony PS3 users an access code to unlock the Sinestro Corp Batman Skin for the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham City video game. The skin will give users the ability to fight crime with the help of the yellow power of fear, giving Batman a unique yellow costume in the story campaign and in the challenge maps.
When the next Mortal Kombat movie does hit the big screen, the odds are it will be a 3D film. After all, director Kevin Tancharoen, who just helmed the short film series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, now has a 3D movie under his belt. He filmed Glee: The 3D Concert Movie using James Cameron’s Fusion 3D camera system, which was also used for Avatar, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The director talks about his Mortal Kombat experience and 3D in this exclusive video interview.
Have you ever wanted to know virtually everything there ever was that went into creating one of the worst movies ever made? Do you just yearn to know why normally smart people make some stupid decisions that result in a hot steaming mess of personified WTF? Do you at all wax nostalgic for the 90's, a time when bad movies had some type of special I don't know what that make them somehow infinitely enjoyable in a way that science has as of yet failed to quantify? Then baby, do I have an interview to show you.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have provided the first look at the new Man of Steel, revealing star Henry Cavill (Immortals) as Superman in the film from director Zack Snyder. The film also stars three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (The Fighter) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) and Academy Award winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves). Cavill talks about Superman and World of Warcraft in this exclusive video interview.
Steven Spielberg made his first trek to San Diego for Comic-Con this year. He was joined on a panel for The Adventures of TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn by producer Peter Jackson, who flew in from the set of The Hobbit. Based on a popular European comic book franchise, the first of three TinTin movies will hit theaters this Christmas. There’s also a new video game from Ubisoft that will be out this fall in tandem with the live action/computer-generated film. Jackson and Spielberg talk about the new 3D movie in the video below.
Following last month’s launch of video game rentals, redbox is expanding video game rentals to approximately 5,000 additional redbox kiosks beginning August 1. Even more consumers will soon have the opportunity to discover and rent the latest PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 games at approximately 27,000 kiosks nationwide. Hit games like Mortal Kombat are available for just a $2 rental fee.
Bioware was on hand for Comic-Con 2011 to reveal new details about the Mass Effect movie and the upcoming Mass Effect 3 video game. Fans had a chance to check out the new game throughout downtown San Diego. Producer Jesse Houston discusses what’s in store for the last installment of the bestselling franchise in this exclusive video interview.
Hollywood director Dwight Little got his start working on hit action movies like Steven Seagal’s Marked for Death and Rapid Fire with Brandon Lee. These days, he’s behind the lens of some of TV’s most popular shows, including “Bones” and “Castle.” The director worked with Namco Bandai to bring the live action Tekken movie to Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay Home Entertainment. Little talks about the new movie and what’s in store for the franchise in this exclusive interview.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment celebrated the release of Limitless on Blu-ray in San Diego at Comic-Con 2011 with the Limitless Café. The director of the hit movie, which stars Bradley Cooper, was on hand to discuss his latest project – the video game adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Neil Burger talks about the challenges of turning Sony’s hit PlayStation 3 game into a new movie franchise in the exclusive video interview below.
Actress Hayley Atwell may not be wielding Captain America’s shield in director Joe Johnston’s The First Avenger, but she’s certainly stealing the superhero’s thunder. Atwell plays Peggy Carter in the World War II-era origin story of Stan Lee’s Marvel comic book, opposite Chris Evans. And gamers can get more of her in Sega’s Captain America: Super Soldier video game. Atwell goes virtual for the first time in the cross-platform game. The English actress, who’s the biggest gamer in the cast, talks about how she’s been hooked on video games since the early days of Sega’s Mega Drive and Game Gear in this exclusive interview.
