In Real Life

Someone’s Making A Twisted Metal Flick And I Can’t Wait For The Reviews

Let me put this delicately. I don’t want to see a Twisted Metal movie. But I do want to see a Twisted Metal movie get made. I want to see what happens when the whole thing gets trashed in a review. If it’s anything like what happened with the game’s review this week, it’ll be far more entertaining than whatever garbage Hollywood thinks gamers want to see.


February 17, 2012
PlayStation

Twisted Metal: The Kotaku Review

As I played through the first singleplayer mission of the new Twisted Metal I felt oddly disconnected from the previous games in the franchise. Perhaps my appreciation for the car combat genre had waned over the decade separating the latest title from PlayStation 2 classic Twisted Metal Black. Maybe I was just too old for this shit.


February 15, 2012
PlayStation

The Sweet Art Of The New Twisted Metal Game

So, the new Twisted Metal game was quietly released yesterday. In honour of the affair, and the fact the game has also been picked up for a movie adaptation, here’s some concept art from the latest entry in the long-running serires.


News

Sony Is Making A Twisted Metal Movie

The co-director of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Brian Taylor, will be both writing and directing a Twisted Metal movie. It’s being produced by super nerds Avi and Ari Arad.


PlayStation

Twisted Metal Sets Game Critic’s Skulls Aflame

After a decade of lurking in the darkness just outside of gamers’ views the evil clown rides back into town, guns blazing, engines roaring, and game reviewers rarin’ for a shot.


February 14, 2012
PlayStation

Twisted Metal Toys Are Meant To Bent To Be Driven This Recklessly

We met with a company called NKOK at Toy Fair 2012. They had a Twisted Metal toy to show us. This is how they showed it to us.


February 12, 2012
News

Outgoing Twisted Metal Creator Would Consider Kickstarter Funding For His New Project, Too

Despite his fears — as only he could express them — that crowdfunding for video games could become “a dick measuring contest”, Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe says he’d consider a Kickstarter project for backing, as he embarks on life starting up a new development studio.


In Real Life

Machine-Gun This Truck From The Comfort Of Your Computer Desk On Valentine’s Day

Out in the middle of the desert, a remote-controlled M249 Squad Automatic Weapon will unload its magazine into Sweet Tooth’s iconic ice cream truck from Twisted Metal, out next week for the PlayStation 3. The trigger will be thousands of spacebars from across the Internet and the finger on one of them can be yours.


February 9, 2012
In Real Life

A Follow-Up With David Jaffe About That Oral Sex Remark

In a promotional video interview that went live on February 6, David Jaffe included a statement that I and others found objectionable. So I objected. After the piece ran, Jaffe reached out to me through Twitter and we agreed to schedule a call. Yesterday evening, we spoke about the issue by phone for roughly half an hour.


February 8, 2012
In Real Life

Does David Jaffe Really Recommend His New Game As A Sexual Aid?

Game designer David Jaffe has been in the news quite a bit this week. His newest game, Twisted Metal is set to launch in a few days and his recently announced impending departure from studio Eat Sleep Play made a bit of a splash.