News

Think Rampage Would Make A Good Monster Movie? So Does New Line Cinema

Inspired by the classic giant monster movies of Hollywood’s past, Midway’s arcade classic Rampage is now the potentially classic giant monster movie of Hollywood’s future. New Line Cinema has begun development on George, Ralph, and Lizzie’s big screen debut.


November 18, 2011
In Real Life

The Game May Be Dead, But The Helicopter-Fighting Art Lives On

Tae Young Choi used to work at Midway Games. Before Midway went belly-up, they were working on an open-world superhero game called Hero.


October 26, 2011
Retro

See How 1993′s NBA Jam Was Made

We rarely get to see the process by which a video game is pitched to a publisher, even today in an age of developer diaries and all-access marketing. It’s even rarer we get to see how a game was pitched all the way back in the early 90s.


May 19, 2011
News

This Digital Face Might Creep You Out

The faces in L.A. Noire venture towards the unsettling. Uncanny Valley. The game uses face mapping to achieve its results. That’s not the only face-mapping game in town, though.


April 28, 2011
In Real Life

The World War Z Game That Could Have Been

Max Brooks’ World War Z is one of the best books about zombies ever written, using the subject of a zombie apocalypse not as a chance to stage a few cheap scares, but to rewrite the history of the world.


December 14, 2010
News

How An Emulator Saved A Video Game Developer’s Bacon

Part anti-publisher rant, part impressive display of creative coding, Mark Feldman’s fascinating little story about how the multiple arcade machine emulator MAME was instrumental in rebuilding a Spy Hunter port from scratch is a must read.


December 9, 2010
News

Video Game Creators Invent The Darndest Finishing Moves

Kratos, star of God of War games, is apparently coming to the next Mortal Kombat as a “kombatant.” What does the man behind the first God of War game think Kratos should do to finish his foes? Fuck ‘em, naturally!


November 19, 2010
In Real Life

Pinball Gave NBA Jam’s Announcer His Gaming Start

His bombastic boothman persona in NBA Jam isn’t Tim Kitzrow’s only gaming credit. The guy also was the voice of Rod Serling in the classic Twilight Zone pinball table. He got his start from his bandmates, who worked for Midway.


September 1, 2010
In Real Life

This Is What $10,000 Worth Of Top Tier Pinball Play Looks Like

Forty minutes of expert level pinball, that is, from the deciding game at this month’s Professional/Amateur Pinball Association World Pinball Championships. If you’ve got a thirst for pinball and the better part of an hour to spare, watch.


August 25, 2010

Rumour: $50 Million Video Game Cancelled

You may have already deduced this in light of the complete absence of marketing for the game, but CVG report that long-in-development-hell, ex-Midway game This Is Vegas has finally been put out of its misery.