Dungeon Siege and BloodRayne movie director, Uwe Boll, has lashed out at Stephen Spielberg - pitting his film, an adaptation of videogame Postal, against the new Indiana Jones flick. In an email sent to horror website Bloody Disgusting, Boll said: "On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael
Thirty-eight percent of gamers are female, according to a report by the Entertainment Software Association, sourced by CNN technology. According to the ESA, girl gamers spend 7.4 hours a week playing games, in-between hiding every television remote and moaning that we've left the toilet seat up. Studies and sales data have shown that women are more likely to play casual handheld games such as Nintendo DS titles, along with "social games"
A batch of images rumoured to be for Knights of the Old Republic III has popped up on JZConcepts.com, website of LucasArts' concept artist, James Zhang. Question is, are the images from his pitch for the project or the real thing? Zhang lists Knights of the Old Republic II as a previously completed project and his client list includes heavyweight firms such as LucasFilm, Miramax, Sony Online Entertainment, Vivendi Universal and Epic Games.
In a meeting with Wall Street analysts, EA head John Riccitello has lashed out at the company's average metacritic score, which last year dropped from 77 to 72. "There is nothing acceptable about that," Riccitiello says. "Our core game titles are accurately measured and summarized by these assessments, and that is a very big deal."
EA has responded to reports speculating on the existence of a BioWare-developed third game in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, essentially saying 'don't get excited'.Hopes that a new Star Wars RPG title is in the pipeline were raised by a slide shown by EA CEO John Riccitiello to analysts that listed newly-owned BioWare attached to Mass Effect, KOTOR, Dragon Age and 'New MMO'.In response, EA has now told Shacknews, "The slide
Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson believes Microsoft and Nintendo will release new home consoles by 2010, the year he says will likely mark the end of the PSP and DS cycles.In an investor note issued to GameSpot, Wilson said it is unlikely that Microsoft or Nintendo will attempt to extend the traditional five year console cycle in this generation."We believe that peak industry sales will occur in 2010, given that Microsoft will
One of our favourite rumours is back - that BioWare is working on a brand new Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars RPG. But this time word suggests that it's not going to be of the previously tipped MMO genre. And looking at the uproar an MMO would create from past comments, that's a good thing.Kotaku reports that "during an EA analyst report it was revealed that in addition to working on more Mass Effect, Dragon Age and a 'New MMO', BioWare
The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) says that the percentage of Mature-rated games released halved from 2005 to 2007.In a winter newsletter, Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB, said that the amount of Mature-rated titles is declining each year despite the fact that more and more games are being released."The ESRB also had the biggest year ever in 2007, having assigned 1,563 ratings, a 22% increase over the prior year. And, as
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The Max Payne movie is taking a step closer to a cinema near you in March, which is when shooting of the flick starts.According to reports, filming will wrap up in early May, which presumably means we'll get to find out how awful - or not - it is toward the end of the year.In November 2007, we reported that ex-rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg had landed the lead role in the movie, filling the combat shoes of the man with nothing to lose.While
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