New
Line Cinema is developing a movie based on Midway's retro arcade title
Rampage. John Rickard, co-producer of Final Destination 5 and the
Nightmare on Elm Street remake, is meeting with writers to develop a
story around the game's conceit of “ordinary people become monsters
and smash everything.” The movie's intended as a tentpole
blockbuster release, which is Hollywood-talk for “this thing needs
to make a lot of money, and we're going to make sure it does by putting Bradley Cooper in it...”
Midway is once again raiding its arcade heritage; this time to bring back the skyscraper-bashing Rampage to PS2 and GameCube in the form of Rampage: Total Destruction.
While the original game featured just three monsters - George the Ape, Lizzie the Dinosaur and Ralph the Wolf - Total Destruction has a total of 30 creatures to unlock, including new leviathans Gilman the Blowfish and Marco the Shark.
For the uninitiated, the premise of Rampage isn't particularly sophisticated or complex, but
In what's slowly becoming an ongoing saga of video updates, Midway's dropped another set of monsters you'll see in the upcoming basher Rampage: Total Destruction. We've neatly packaged this release, plus the previous four for your viewing pleasure. Just click the "Movies" tab
Sometimes you just don't need or want a riveting storyline or cutting edge, senses-shattering graphics. You want mindless destruction. How about Total Destruction, then? Weve got another reel of Midway's monsters trashing various cityscapes around the globe. Move your mouse over the "Movies" tab up there and take a
New
Line Cinema is developing a movie based on Midway's retro arcade title
Rampage. John Rickard, co-producer of Final Destination 5 and the
Nightmare on Elm Street remake, is meeting with writers to develop a
story around the game's conceit of “ordinary people become monsters
and smash everything.” The movie's intended as a tentpole
blockbuster release, which is Hollywood-talk for “this thing needs
to make a lot of money, and we're going to make sure it does by putting Bradley Cooper in it...”
A videogame version of Ratatouille, Pixar Animation's latest project about a French rat who really wants to be a great chef, will be launched on just about every gaming platform you can think of next summer.
In case you can't think of that many platforms, here's the list: PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, GameCube, PC, DS and PSP. Mon dieu.
As the Parisian rodent, Remy, you'll be skittering through a bunch of minigames and cookery challenges themed around what publisher THQ promises are "the film's
Rats aren't very cute, but neither are bugs, monsters and hillbilly pickup trucks. But somehow Pixar has been able to take those characters and make some pretty great movies. Whether or not the videogame tie-in for Pixar's next animated film, Ratatouille, can borrow that mojo and make a game that appeals to everyone remains to be seen, but now we've got a trailer to give you a better idea of what to expect.
Our recent look describes the platformer as borrowing "everything from Super Monkey
We've got the latest amusing video from the gang creating Rayman Raving Rabbids - just hit the Movies tab above to give it a view. In the second installment of what could be a neverending stream of clips showcasing what Rayman's enemies cannot do, we learn the murderous "rabbids" ain't so hot at housework. Click, smile and wait for the game's inevitable release near the holidays.
June 23,
Critically beloved but still not the most popular kid in class, the funky-haired, no-limbed Rayman is still chugging along. Today, we learned he's getting a fourth game, which publisher Ubisoft announced will hit stores in time for the
Thursday 6 April 2006
Publisher Ubisoft has announced that it will release Rayman 4 this Christmas for next-gen and current-gen machines. Michel Ancel, superstar creator of platforming hero Rayman and the excellent Beyond Good & Evil, will spearhead the development of the latest game in the cartoon action series.
Ubisoft expects the new Rayman "to sweep players off their feet," an ambitious leap for the decade-spanning Rayman series. But with Ancel at the creative wheel, we're hoping Rayman
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