Blizzard: World of Warcraft movie has slowed, but still happening

Blizzard: World of Warcraft movie has slowed, but still happening

22 July 2010

Blizzard Entertainment took the stage here at Comic-Con in San Diego to talk about World of Warcraft -inspired merchandise, and when the topic of the WoW movie came up during the Q&A, Vice President of Creative Development Chris Metzen confirmed that though the process has slowed recently, the movie is still happening. Director Sam Raimi is still "very, very passionate" about getting the movie made, but Metzen said that a treatment is still being hammered out.

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Atari's Haunted House returns to haunt PC, Xbox 360 and Wii

Atari’s Haunted House returns to haunt PC, Xbox 360 and Wii

14 July 2010

Atari is finally bringing back its classic Haunted House franchise for a new XBLA, downloadable PC, and Wii (presumably WiiWare) game. For those of you who aren't ancient, Haunted House is a maze game about a kid exploring a mysterious mansion in order to put an urn back together, hindered both by aggressive ghosts and total inability to see items or exits without lighting a match

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Rock Band senior designer Dan Teasdale leaves Harmonix for Twisted Pixel

Rock Band senior designer Dan Teasdale leaves Harmonix for Twisted Pixel

02 July 2010

Harmonix's Dan Teasdale , lead designer for Rock Band 3 , has made the jump to Comic Jumper and ' Splosion Man developer Twisted Pixel, where he will begin work on "a ridiculously cool new project." He is flying to Austin, Texas today to join the team, though we suspect there will be time for Mexican food and Amy's ice cream somewhere in there. While we assumed the only reason you'd leave a job like that is the sudden onset of deafness, Teasdale offered justification for the decision. In a blog post , he cited a desire to work with a smaller game in order to have more hands-on influence on the creation process

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Impressions: Bulletstorm

Impressions: Bulletstorm

13 May 2010

Epic Games and Painkiller dev People Can Fly have finally taken the wraps off Bulletstorm , their FPS collaboration for EA, and it's looking like a brutal yet beautiful love note to fans of over-the-top action. Epic's design director Cliff Bleszinski and Bulletstorm producer Tanya Jessen (who also produced Gears of War on PC) flew in to San Francisco last week to debut the game. The duo kicked things off with the above trailer before getting into the nitty-gritty details in a live gameplay demo, with Bleszinski steeling the crowd for what he considers to be "a mix of Burnout , Duke Nukem and Firefly / Serenity ." Bleszinski prefaced the demo by saying that, while still very much into the Gears series, "what really gets me out of bed in the morning is crafting a whole new world" -- something that he's excited to do on this project with the team at People Can Fly in Poland.

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HAWX 2 taking off this fall

HAWX 2 taking off this fall

05 May 2010

Get ready to play around with boys one more time! Ubisoft just announced HAWX 2, presumably one of the two new Tom Clancy games mentioned by an Ubisoft producer late last month.

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Impressions: Test Drive Unlimited 2

Impressions: Test Drive Unlimited 2

30 April 2010

It's been four years -- a.k.a. a long time -- since Eden Studios introduced "massively open outdoor racing" with the original Test Drive Unlimited . The series returns this fall in the sequel, which is still MOOR but not just MOAR of the same.

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