UltraMarines: Warhammer 40k Movie Announces Voice Actors (Video)
We'll soon be treated to a few movies based of video games, like this one. TRON seems to be a great candidate for a video game based movie, and that trailer makes it look like it will be one to watch. Another notable movie will be the one from Legendary pictures based on Blizzard's Warcraft games, but that may still be a while off. However, there are other noteworthy ones in the works as well. If you haven't heard about it already, let me introduce you to the UltraMarines, a movie based on the Warhammer 40,000 intellectual property from Games Workshop. Updates have been coming fast and furious from the people behind this movie, and the most recent was the press release clip below that announces the stellar voice acting cast for the clip via interviews done with them: The UltraMarines movie is using facial animation technology from Image Metrics to create those truly lifelike CG graphics we've all become accustomed to seeing. It looks like the UltraMarines characters will truly come to life in this movie if the Image Metrics technology and previous work is on par with what they've done in the past: It has no official trailer available ...
Place Your Bets: Valve Bringing Steam To The Macintosh
Many of us have noticed that Steam recently released a new beta client, complete with all kinds of cool new UI improvements and other assorted bells and whistles. In reading the beta release notes recently I noticed something interesting. One of the line items in those notes was that Valve has replaced the in game web browser's rendering engine with WebKit instead of IE. Since Steam runs on Windows only, it makes perfect sense that it would be easy to just use IE, so their motivation to make this change seemed curious to me. What if you wanted Steam to run on a machine that wasn't Windows based? You would need to remove all dependencies on Windows, which includes the in game browswer using IE. Changing to WebKit during this beta release is a tell tale sign of portability I tell you! This was my theory. In making my rounds around the interwebs today I came across some very interesting articles that pretty much validated my thinking, and I went from theorizing to placing my bets on this inevitability. *Update: Others have reported seeing OS X buttons in the graphics folder of the Steam install, ...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – The Awesome Starts Tomorrow (Video)
I've been playing the BFBC2 demo and I have to say that this looks like the next great shooter that I'll be getting into, although I think I certainly need to buy a joystick for my PC if I'm going to think about flying a helicopter. Beta saw me attempt to fly these in a fantastical noob style with only my keyboard and mouse, and the attempts nearly always ended in a crash and burn mere yards from the launching pad and lots of kids cussing me in chat for trying to fly. Crashing and burning aside, I can't wait to get the full game. Check the video below, and if this doesn't get your action juices flowing, I don't know what will: The game is set to launch tomorrow, March 2nd and I'll be running around getting owned by adolescents and juvenille adults with a big adrenaline junkie style smile on my face. Look up Stimulus Package on Steam or in game if you'd like to shoot me as well. ~br3ntbr0
Transformers: War For Cybertron – The MMO That Should Have Been (Video)
Transformers: War For Cybertron is a game that has seems to have all the key pieces; deep lore, two opposing sides struggling in a world destroying war, and of course drool worthy animations and sound effects. It breaks the fantasy mold quite well despite having no light sabers or phasers, fitting nicely into it's own sci-fi action niche. That said, it's great news that High Moon Studios is releasing War for Cybertron this year. The problem is, this version of the game isn't an MMO (see Joystiq's preview) but more of a single player game instead: Trailer: Game Play Reveal: It's my opinion that if ever there was an intellectual property out there in need of an MMO, it's the world of the Transformers. It begs to question if there just aren't enough investors out there willing to take the plunge into the volatile MMO market. This type of game seems like it would have been poised to be a great persistent online world, yet it seems like this is a stand alone game that doesn't seem to promise much MMO-like persistence. Hopefully, it is still a solid game despite it's single player/co-op design. This game has Activision shown as it's publisher, ...
Нет, спасибо (No Thanks): Allods Offline
That didn't take long I think I can safely say that my Allods Online experiment is done, and it seems like I was just getting started with the game. I stated previously that I thought Allods had alot of good things going for it, especially that it launched at a good time. However I knew the devil was in the details, particularly with the item shop. As it turns out, gPotato and Astrum Nival are as lost as a fart in the wind when it comes to bringing a game to the American market and will soon find themselves with little or no customers. You're doing it wrong If you want a case study in how to do it wrong, look no further than this game. Exorbitant prices in the item shop are one thing, but when patches go into the game that basically require you to purchase these high priced items (thanks Keen for this insight) from the shop, it's game over. Most US gamers are not idiots (note the word most there) and won't support this kind of underhanded management of the game. Нет, спасибо (No Thanks) Most American gamers don't trust our own game development companies, much ...
Mar 9th
UltraMarines: Warhammer 40k Movie Announces Voice Actors (Video)
We’ll soon be treated to a few movies based of video games, like this one. TRON seems to be a great candidate for a video game based movie, and that trailer makes it look like it will be one to watch. Another notable movie will be the one from Legendary pictures based on Blizzard’s Warcraft games, but that may still be a while off. However, there are other noteworthy ones in the works as well.
If you haven’t heard about it already, let me introduce you to the UltraMarines, a movie based… Read >>
Mar 3rd
Place Your Bets: Valve Bringing Steam To The Macintosh
Many of us have noticed that Steam recently released a new beta client, complete with all kinds of cool new UI improvements and other assorted bells and whistles. In reading the beta release notes recently I noticed something interesting. One of the line items in those notes was that Valve has replaced the in game web browser’s rendering engine with WebKit instead of IE. Since Steam runs on Windows only, it makes perfect sense that it would be easy to just use IE, so their motivation to make this change seemed curious to… Read >>
Mar 1st
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – The Awesome Starts Tomorrow (Video)
I’ve been playing the BFBC2 demo and I have to say that this looks like the next great shooter that I’ll be getting into, although I think I certainly need to buy a joystick for my PC if I’m going to think about flying a helicopter. Beta saw me attempt to fly these in a fantastical noob style with only my keyboard and mouse, and the attempts nearly always ended in a crash and burn mere yards from the launching pad and lots of kids cussing me in chat for trying to fly. Crashing and burning… Read >>
Feb 28th
Transformers: War For Cybertron – The MMO That Should Have Been (Video)
Transformers: War For Cybertron is a game that has seems to have all the key pieces; deep lore, two opposing sides struggling in a world destroying war, and of course drool worthy animations and sound effects. It breaks the fantasy mold quite well despite having no light sabers or phasers, fitting nicely into it’s own sci-fi action niche.
That said, it’s great news that High Moon Studios is releasing War for Cybertron this year. The problem is, this version of the game isn’t an MMO (see Joystiq’s preview) but more of a… Read >>
Feb 22nd
Нет, спасибо (No Thanks): Allods Offline
That didn’t take long
I think I can safely say that my Allods Online experiment is done, and it seems like I was just getting started with the game. I stated previously that I thought Allods had alot of good things going for it, especially that it launched at a good time. However I knew the devil was in the details, particularly with the item shop. As it turns out, gPotato and Astrum Nival are as lost as a fart in the wind when it comes to bringing a game to the American market and will… Read >>
Feb 18th
Battle.net: New Bnet Integration Shown In StarCraft II UI, World of Warcraft Implications Pondered (Video)
I’ve never been a big fan of RTS games, primarily because I don’t multi-task well and managing all those units and construction and such is usually a bit too much for me. Throw in competitive play and I’m bound to have one sad losing experience after another. I guess that explains why my first foray into Blizzard’s games was with World of Warcraft, and it’s RTS style titles. Regardless, I’m throwing that all to the wind and giving StarCraft II a nice long look when it comes out.
Closed beta recently began for SC2, and a… Read >>
Feb 18th
Allods Online: At The Right Place In The Right Time
There has been allod alot of buzz about Allods Online recently. The game just launched after several weeks of closed and then open beta, and the game has plenty of promise. Many will put the game in the “WoW clone” category, and others will defend it’s twist on the proven themepark mmo formula.
This is not a review of the game per se, but so far my opinion is that it is solid and worth giving a shot. There is great value in the game, especially since it is free to download and play… Read >>
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