"The script has been incredibly well-received around town," says producer Adrian Askarieh. "After Bruce Willis read it, he called it one of the best action scripts he's ever read, and Bruce is an expert in terms of action scripts because he's read everything over the last 20 years." Bruce Willis knows something good when he sees it!
Critical Gamer Writes: Kane and Lynch is probably best known amongst gamers for sparking the furore at Gamespot which resulted in reviewer Jeff Gerstmann's dismissal from the site, after scoring the game as a 6/10. Despite the relatively lacklustre reviews and critical response, the movie version still sits just over the horizon and having Bruce Willis on board will no doubt raise it's profile.
Die Hard actor Bruce Willis is negotiating to star in Liongate's Kane and Lynch: Dead Men movie.Willis will play Adam "Kane" Marcus, a bald headed mercenary who partners up with pony tailed schizophrenic killer James Lynch.According to Variety, the flick will be the directorial debut of Simon Crane, who served as second unit director and stunt coordinator on Mr & Mrs. Smith, Troy and X-Men: The Last Stand. It's ...
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Reports indicate Willis is in final negotiations and filming will start later this year.
Gamesite XGN posts her weekly European Xbox Live Marketplace Roundup. This week there are a great number of new demos released.
Eidos is releasing four new downloadable maps for the Fragile Alliance multiplayer mode in Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. The maps will be downloadable for free on April 17, from Xbox LIVE and from the Playstation Network for the PS3. The new maps will be released in one downloadable pack entitled 'The Dope Bag', with each of the four maps featuring its own unique scenario. There will also be an additional 250 Xbox 360 achievement points to earn based on the downloadable content.
As well as the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack, a mass of new content (mainly for Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore) is now available to download from the XBOX Live Marketplace. Here's the full list:
From April 17 - that's this Thursday - you'll be able to download the 'Dope Bag' multiplayer map pack for Kane & Lynch from PSN and XBL Marketplace, and we've got footage of it in action.The 'Dope Bag' pack includes four maps each with a new back-stabby heist scenario.Clean Cut has you take on the local dope dealers and the Russian mafia at an LA construction site, 'Hooker's Trail' has you clash with the Yakuza in Tokyo, ...
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The Advertising Standards Authority has banned "shocking" magazine and television ads for Eidos and IO Interactive's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men in the UK - because people totally still care about the game, apparently.
The magazine ad, which shows a crying, gagged woman with her head held back by Kane and co, has been ordered not to be printed again after complaints were made, calling the image "graphic" and "shocking," MCV ...
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The Advertising Standards Authority has outlawed an Eidos advertising campaign for Kane & Lynch.
Eidos sends word that four new multiplayer maps are on the way for Kane & Lynch's multiplayer mode, Fragile Alliance. They're all absolutely free.In case you've never played it before, the multiplayer mode has you playing as criminals in a heist. You're encouraged to work as a team until the very end, when back-stabbing your teammates at the right moment can help you get away with all the loot. It also gives your victim a chance ...
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Four new multiplayer maps are headed to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions of IO Interactive's buddy-buddy shooter Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, publisher Eidos has informed Shacknews.
Xbox 360 Achievements reports that Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has been upgraded to 1250 gamerscore with 5 new achievements, all of which are secret. As is the case with most new achievements, this most likely points to some upcoming DLC, though no official announcement has been made by Eidos.
Buried in its restructuring statement was this bit of data from SCi/Eidos: Kane and Lynch sold 1.4 million units.
Videogamer writes: The Official PlayStation Magazine, is reporting that Kane & Lynch 2 is in development.
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade, full versions purchased this week. Here are the top 3 for each charts, see the source for the complete top 10 list.
Surfer Girl is back with ten new rumors including info on Team Ico's projects, whether Kane & Lynch 2 is happening or not, the next Shrek game, and the release date of Rage.
A Kane and Lynch: Dead Men demo is now available to download from the XBOX Live Marketplace. The same demo was available to download on the PlayStation 3 from the PlayStation Network earlier this month.