News

GameStop Wreaks Havok On The X-Men, Gives Spider-Man An Identity Crisis

With two Marvel superhero video games coming from Activision this Australian spring, GameStop ransacks comic book continuity for fresh outfits to provide preorder customers of X-Men: Destiny and Spider-Man: Edge of Time.


May 21, 2011
News

Meet Grant, X-Men: Destiny’s Football Hero

Joining Aimi Yoshida as one of three new mutant characters in Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny, Grant is a jock hailing from Georgia whose only ambition is to become a football hero. He gets it half-right.


May 12, 2011
News

"Social Gaming Is Going To Crash"

Game designer Denis Dyack, who labored on action game Too Human for years, thinks that social gaming is a bubble waiting to burst: “The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry’s seen in a long time and I think when it crashes it’s going to crash very hard.” [IndustryGamers]


May 3, 2011
Xbox

Too Human Trilogy Will Be Finished, Says Silicon Knights

Silicon Knights, the creators of Xbox 360 game Too Human, says it still “intend[s]to finish the trilogy” despite meagre sales, middling critical reception and a very long development cycle.


March 31, 2011
News

This Is Going To Be Epic: Too Human Creators Gear Up For Legal War With Shooter Giant

Gears of War’s success was built on broken promises and the neglected developers who helped fund the creation of that game, a 2007 suit from the developer of the disappointing Too Human alleges.


March 23, 2011
PlayStation

New Look At X-Men Destiny And Its Teenage Mutant Ninja Girl

The last time we got a look at X-Men Destiny, the merry mutant adventure from the House of Ideas and Silicon Knights, it didn’t look too hot. But our latest look at the game and new X-character Aimi Yoshida has us warming up to Activision’s latest.


January 18, 2011
PlayStation

First Look At The New Mutants Of X-Men Destiny

The people who made games Too Human and Eternal Darkness are now making an X-Men adventure for Activision, a game that lets players mould their own mutant. This is what that game, X-Men Destiny, is looking like right now.


December 14, 2010

New X-Men Game Sounds Mass Effect-y

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.viddler.com/player/ce4e35cf/","customParams":{"flashVars":"fake=1"},"width":570,"height":360,"ratio":0.5625,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"viddler","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

This new trailer for 2011′s X-Men Destiny keeps hammering away at one point: as a virtual X-Man, we will be able to choose our destiny in Destiny. That sure makes it sound like this game’s a role-playing game.


October 8, 2010
News

Too Human Creators Heading X-Men Destiny Development

Silicon Knights, the Canadian studio famous for its work on Too Human, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness, is the studio behind Activision’s recently announced game for Marvel, X-Men Destiny.


April 13, 2010
News

Canadian Gov’t Gives $US4 Million To ‘Too Human’ Studio

The bunch that brought you 2008 dud Too Human is now on the public dole, getting a $US4 million gummint cheque the studio says will help it build its next AAA-game.