kane & lynch: dead men
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GameSpot’s Kane & Lynch Review Hit The Dev Team ‘Like A Hammer’
9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Generally, we would suspect that any unfavourable review of one’s video game creation would be quite the bum out. In the case of IO Interactive’s Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, however, team members say that GameSpot’s damning review of the Eidos published crime epic knocked the wind out of them and that being caught up in the “conspiracy theory” brouhaha that surrounded the review was “surreal”. Jens Peter Kurup, Director of Kane & Lynch at IO, tells GamesRadar that “there was something in the tone of that review that was tough on people, and on me”. Calling the GameSpot thrashing of Kane & Lynch — a nasty 6.0, when many reviews range from 7.0 to 10 — “a review that I would like to forget”, Kurup is surprisingly honest in his feelings about the judgement. More »
Kane & Lynch Ads Banned In UK
2:20AM Mike Fahey | The Advertising Standards Authority is not amused by the recent UK advertisements for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. The watchdog group has recieved 26 separate complaints against the violent ads, which include a TV spot, posters, and print ads. The main offender was the poster, which featured a gagged, crying woman with her head held back by one of the game’s heroes. Another poster contained a quote from OXM calling the game “Grittier and nastier in tone than anything you’ve seen before, the violence here is visceral, brutal and very, very real.” More »
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Kane & Lynch Sells Over A Million Copies
1:20PM Michael McWhertor | Middling review scores and a negative association with the controversy surrounding the termination of a Gamespot employee doesn’t seem to have harmed the sales performance of the Eidos-published Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. The IO Interactive action game has sold over a million copies since its launch in November, according to a report from Next Generation. That would mean sequel talk is more than likely, despite my predictions that everyone involved would like to avoid franchise talk like the plague. Guess that movie is still going ahead, too. Also a big hit for parent company SCI? Pony Friends, which is, as far as we know, a harrowing pony war game. Kane and Lynch Sells 1 mln [Next-Gen] More »
Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review?
1:05PM Michael McWhertor | We’ve heard an unsettling rumour today from an anonymous tipster that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot has been let go. That wouldn’t necessarily be newsworthy, but the conditions under which he was allegedly dismissed were. According to the source, Gerstmann was fired “on the spot” due to advertiser pressure for his review of Eidos’ Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. A visit to Gamespot shows that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has taken over the site very prominently, with backgrounds and multiple banner ads all pitching Kane & Lynch. Allegedly, publisher Eidos “took issue with the review and threatened to pull its ad campaign.” More »Kane and Lynch’s Anti-Co-Op Multiplayer
2:20AM Mike Fahey |Kane and Lynch, Total Bastards
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Boy oh boy, I am excited about Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. And with the massive flood of games, that’s saying something! Here the game’s director Jens Peter Kurup talks about how the game and the characters evolved. So watch it! Great stuff, can’t wait until November when the title is released. More »
Sexing Up Kane & Lynch
10:21AM Brian Crecente | It’s been quite awhile since a marketing idea has completely confused me. So I guess it’s about time. Eidos today announced a partnership with Playboy and Fox Interactive to promote Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. If the promotional partner selection isn’t head-scratching enough, the concept certainly is. The idea is that IGN, Playboy and MySpace will team up to conduct a “cyber search” to find the “perfect girl who can best evoke Kane and Lynch’s dangerous vibe”. WTF? A lot of things pop into my head when I think about the gritty, unsettling action shooter, but hot women is not one of them. In fact, I kinda find it disturbing that a game about the brutality of a mercenary and a psychopath could in anyway be turned into sexy. It’s not sexy, it’s not supposed to be. It’s disturbing. Let’s keep it that way. More »
