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Showing posts with label Gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaming. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Spielberg Wants Master Chief.

HALO project to the big screen has been stalled for quite some time. From Jerry Bruckheimer to Peter Jackson, Master Chief appearance is yet to be confirmed. Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson won't be in for HALO. That's for sure, since they have their own alien movie (and a very good one too...positive reviews all around folks).

It appears that Master Chief, one of the most iconic figure in modern gaming, will be left forever in the dark. That is until one man decided he wanted in and that man is an icon himself. Steven Spielberg is reported to have been engaging in an active negotiations develop the feature film adaptation. Yes, Steven Spielberg.

After he loses Transformers to Paramount, maybe this guy planning to have HALO as a stepping stone for his new independant studio. But hey, whatever his motives might be, I am thrilled with this news. There is no other person that is better in the producer seat for HALO than Steven Spielberg.

With him taking active role in negotiation, we can finally finish the fight with Master Chief and Cortana on the big screen.

Let's just hope that Spielberg won't cast Shia as Master Chief...just kidding.

"Damn those ET's,"
said Master Chief after destroying a covenant ship.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen character sneak peek

Hey guys! Are you ready for a new adventure by Sam Witwicky? Well get ready because it is yet a new battle between the autobots and decepticons to be unfold at cinema this June 24. I guess many transformers fans out there knew this but not all of us knew what characters are up for this sequel, don’t we? Who are going to invade the earth and who are going to protect us from them? Well guess what. If you have this question in your head, then you’re in the right place because I have just the information that you need.

Activision had finally revealed the characters in this movie to satisfy gamers who has been excessively anticipated about what character they’re going to play in Transformers 2 game. This info has indirectly revealed the characters that are going to participate in a quest of defending the earth this summer. Long story short, here’s the list of autobots and decepticons for Transformers 2.

Autobots:
OPTIMUS PRIME
IRONHIDE
BREAKAWAY
BUMBLEBEE
RATCHET
AERIALBOT
PROTECTOBOT

Decepticons:
STARSCREAM
SIDEWAYS
GRINDOR
LONG HAUL
MEGATRON
SEEKER

Yup! That’s it! And if you haven’t watched the trailer for this movie yet, you can start watching it down here. It’s extremely awesome…



Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 2009-06-24

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese, Rainn Wilson, Matthew Marsden

Directed by Michael Bay
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Written by Ehren Kruger

And of course, you might want to see the music video for Transformers 2 OST from Linkin Park...

Linkin Park - "New Divide" The Official Music Video

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Rated Z for Zombie-licious

What’s up people!...or in a more appropriate manner of speaking, how are you doing, fellow reader.

How’s your day?

Zombie here, and you’re going to see a lot of me from time to time. I decided to drop by and say hi to all of you. Yes you guys, the one who are reading this. I’ll be mainly posting book reviews and few stuff about authors that is, if you don’t know about them already

Since Roldan would probably chop me to pieces if I put up some senseless post, so in response to his post about Xbox’s Natal, yeah it is somewhat intriguing. I know Microsoft yet to have a release date and all but, I’m pumped up already. Imagine the possibilities. No, I don’t mean playing an improved Wii Fit-ish game. Though it is Microsoft answer to Wii…let’s not go there, I leave those arguments to the fan boys.

What I am getting at here is the potential of Natal. I’m seriously intrigued of its capabilities, you know, imagined that playing Left 4 Dead-esque game on those things. It’ll be awesome, you can finally punch the zombies, kick them or do all those things to your fellow survivors for being such an a-hole (I’ve taken more hits from teammate rather than from zombies, idiots). Maybe this time we can talk trash to the zombies every time we’re being overrun.

Hypes have been surrounding this particular revolution of gaming by fans and haters. Some love it, some don’t but I like to quote a rather disturbing comment concerning Natal scanning function. It involves creating avatars. One user said,

"I can’t wait coz I wanna scan myself naked."

Xbox Live users will see a lot of interesting avatars soon.

Anyway, although Natal is a techno wonder but I doubt its application will be featured in such games. At least not anywhere near its release. But hey, we’ll never know until it hit the shelves, for all we know I am probably wrong. Maybe this is the starting point for the much-awaited advancement in entertainment that probably would lead to humanity doomsday in the hand (or in this case – the screen) of machine.

Since I’m still in Zombie mood, check out the vid for Dead Rising 2 if you haven’t already (link at the end of the post). It’s wicked awesome. The only disappointment for me is that Frank will have only a guest appearance and probably not as a playable character. I missed Frank but I guess Chuck kick some undead ass too.

With the capabilities of spawning 7,000 zombies on the screen, (the first only have max capacities of 800) and ready to be taken down with the most creative way, Dead Rising 2 is going to be big. No, not big but Zombie-licious. I mean, where else can you see Zombie showgirls?

Well then, keep that console warm for Chuck Greene’s arrival on PC, Xbox360 and PS3.

On a side note, I’d like to see that on Natal, don’t you?

Click here for Dead Rising 2 Vidz.

Project Natal: Microsoft stunned the world of gaming industry

Gamers! Finally it’s here, the most incredible futuristic creation of console without tangible controller for all of you to enjoy. This is truly a remarkable breakthrough by Microsoft research team under XBOX360 platform.

I stumbled upon this news when I surfed on youtube for new interesting video, and when I saw a post of “Project Natal”, my first impression was “what the hell is Natal?” Curious, I clicked on the links, and what I saw was too awesome that I could not even believe my eyes. Here, see for yourself…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U


Unfortunately, there’s not much for me to say here about this techno mumbo jumbo. The video above would say it all. However, if you wish to read further about this amazing invention, I suggest you follow the links below. I’m sure they could provide you with more detailed information about Natal. In fact, the first link would bring you to a blog by Johnny Chung Lee, one of the researchers in the Applied Sciences group at Microsoft who actually took part in this incredible invention.

http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-natal.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10253892-235.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10253586-1.html
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/