How Bad User Interfaces Are Ruining Video Games And Other Wonderful Things 
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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks 
Sunday Comics: Dead Island 
Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines 
Microsoft Responds To Reports Of Xbox Live Account 'Jacking' 
Charlie Brooker. Gaming needs folks like him. Folks that write about games intelligently – who can talk about games authoritively, yet still exist outside of the god forsaken loop of hype and bombast that makes up most of games writing. Folks that can somehow distil what makes gaming great to people who, in general, would rather dip their genitals in a deep fat fryer than give L.A. Noire the time of day.
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Did you ever play Space Invaders and, while you were dodging and firing and shooting, make up a story about who was in the tank and wish you could someday see them in a movie? Yeah, I didn’t either.
News from Hollywood here, kids, and the news is good. In an interview with IGN, movie producer Paul W.S. Anderson has revealed that not only is the Castlevania movie stalled, but Spyhunter is stalled and then some.
To refresh: Gordon Chan is directing a King of Fighters movie. Previously, details were scant, but today, details on the flick have surfaced. We wish they’d remained scant.
Ian Bogost and his students have a new project underway looking at the intersection of journalism and games; their new blog is full of interesting stuff.
Is there a market out there that needs/wants to stare intently at high-definition renditions of Kylie Minogue’s butt cheeks, Jean Claude’s chest cheeks and Raul Julia’s…cheeks to the extent we need Street Fighter released on Blu-Ray? We’d like to think there isn’t, and that the release of the forgettable, regrettable 90′s tie-in is just part of Capcom’s hype machine for Street Fighter IV (the disc is packed with “bonus” SFIV promo material), but these days, you never can tell. It’ll be out on February 10, just in time to coincide with the console release of SFIV and the theatrical release of the Chun-Li movie.
What a world we live in. Universal Pictures have bought the rights to make a movie based on EA’s Dante’s Inferno. And they’ve bought them for a “seven-figure sum”. Bear in mind, this is a game that hasn’t even been announced yet. The project will be overseen by EA movies-and-comic books guy President David O’Brien, as well as Jonathan Knight (from the gaming side of things), and both game and movie will involve – wait for it – “a journey through the depths of hell”
When Hollywood adapts a property for the big screen – be it a book, comic or game – they can often take a few…liberties with the source material. Take the Mario Bros. movie, for example. The upcoming Gears of War movie, however, will be doing no such thing, with the film’s screenwriter Chris Morgan telling MTV that the film will be sticking to the men and events of the game pretty closely.
