About two years ago, a guy posted a how-to for turning old NES cartridges into a harmonica. If you lack the tools, know-how or NES carts to make one yourself, someone’s now selling them, for $US24.99. More »
Last year, Days of Thunder quickly asserted itself as a serious arcade racer on the iPhone. Paramount’s back with Top Gun, looking to do the same for combat flyers. More »
While making the world’s latest video game about the Tom Cruise classic, the Top Gun iPhone development team took a few liberties — in the name of both fun and air supremacy. More »
I mentioned earlier this week the CBC’s misguided attempts at laying the blame of Brandon Crisps’ death at the feet of pro-gaming, and not society, his parents or Crisp himself.
When Midway scrubbed their Austin studio and binned a game nobody had ever heard about – Career Criminal – many people were left, well, nonplussed. After all, it’s a bit hard to get worked up over a game that you’ve never heard of. But a few retrospective tears may be in order today, as Variety brings word that Hollywood director Tony Scott was attached to the project. Don’t know Tony Scott? Dude directed Top Gun. And the last of the great corny action movies, True Romance. He was working as a kinda creative consultant, continuing a recent trend/fascination Midway have had with getting Hollywood types working on their games (John Woo/Stranglehold, for example). So while we may never see Career Criminal, we can at least rest assured that if we had, guitar solos, sexually-charged one-liners and dimly-lit sex scenes would have featured prominently.
Tony Scott was attached to Midway’s canceled Career Criminal game [Variety][Pic]
