Mike Wilson, he of Ion Storm, Gamecock, Gathering of Developers and Devolver Digital video game company founding fame, is also the star and producer of Austin High, a “goofball stoner comedy” that has nothing to do with video games (I think) and everything to do with joints and bongs and slackerdom. More »
Today’s announcement of Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD for Xbox Live Arcade had a hidden bonus announcement buried within, the existence of Devolver Digital. That’s the new production company from the founders of the extinct Gamecock and G.O.D. More »
If you watch the new extended trailer for Velvet Assassin and feel a strange sense of deja-vu, there’s a reason for that. Sadly, that reason doesn’t make the trailer any better.
What was presumably meant to be a sexy and inspiring trailer for Replay Studio’s Velvet Assassin instead manages to bring to mind the disturbing image of Sir Winston Churchill in a bloody nightie.
At a time when other companies are reconsidering their membership, fast-growing video game publisher SouthPeak Interactive becomes the first new member of the Entertainment Software Association for 2009.
Southpeak had their very own Violette Summer on hand to pose for pictures with fans. But, I was at their booth to check out their game, not the babe.
Gamecock founder Mike Wilson has been in talks with the owner of eBay-listed gaming magazine Hardcore Gamer about a potential purchase, Wilson confirmed to Kotaku today.
There were several things that stayed with me long after I’d put down Velvet Assassin – the most vivid of which was the morphine. In this World War II stealth-action game, morphine acts sort of as bullet-time; when you botch a sneaking mission and your character Violette gets shot at, you can inject yourself with a syringe of the magic medicine which turns everything all orangey with little flower petals/red blood cells floating everywhere. While this is going on, Violet appears onscreen in her hospital nightie (sexy), can run super-fast, and kills people in lightning-quick shanks.
Whoa, I didn’t even know SouthPeak Interactive swung that way, but apparently they’ve been Gamecock-hungry for quite some time and aren’t too proud to pay for it. SouthPeak today announces that they have acquired wild-and-crazy Gamecock Media Group. ‘Cock head Mike Wilson swells with excitement. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with SouthPeak to continue to bring great original titles from independent developers to market with a stronger sales and distribution reach,” said Mike Wilson, CEO of Gamecock. “We have followed each other’s progress closely over the last two years, and combining our team with theirs results in a very strong and well-rounded force in the market.”
The whole Mushroom Men concept is one bizarre creation from Gamecock. The thing is that you can’t help but stare at the beauty of it. There’s something really intriguing about helping a lone fungi find his place in society. We have screens from Spore Wars (Wii) and Rise of the Fungi (DS) here in the gallery.
