Ken levine reveals bioshock movie cancellation details

Ken Levine Reveals BioShock Movie Cancellation Details

Universal’s fear of R-rated films led to severe budget cuts to the Bioshock movie project The the details behind the cancellation of the ill-fated movie adaptation of the 2007 video game classic BioShock have always been shrouded in a fair amount of mystery. However, creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games and one of the…

Nintendo announce pokémon x and y for the nintendo 3ds

Nintendo Announce Pokémon X and Y for the Nintendo 3DS

The next two games in the Pokémon series, Pokémon X and Y, will be released for the Nintendo 3DS  October 2013.    During a Nintendo Direct live internet broadcast, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata highlighted the significance of the Pokémon brand via retrospective on the entire series and the innovations they have brought to the world…

The Horrifying Controversy of Zombie Survival Game The War Z

Zombie Survival Game ‘The War Z’ – Controversy If there’s one thing the geeky world can’t get enough of its zombies. Zombie films, zombie television programmes, zombie toys, zombie video games, zombie everything. For the most part us zombie-philes are grateful for this consistent stream of gory, undead goodness, but late last year a game…

Del Toro Pushed to Have the Voice of GlaDOS in Pacific Rim

Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming giant monsters vs. giant robots movie Pacific Rim is nothing short of a geek’s dream come true. But when the first trailer was released last month, the focus of many gamers’ attention was not on the interdimensional monster invasion, but instead on the familiar voice of the film’s A.I. Fans of…

Retro City Rampage – Review

Retro City Rampage Full Review Retro City Rampage is in essence an invitation by indie game developer Brian Provinciano to immerse ourselves in everything he enjoyed while growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. His game, with its 8-bit graphics viewable in the style of a Nintendo Game Boy, an Atrai 2600 and various MS-DOS…

Phil Fish: Fez to be Ported to Other Platforms, More Games on the Horizon

Phil Fish has made a statement confirming that not only is his unique puzzle plat-former Fez, due to be ported to other platforms sometime in 2013, but that future games are on the way. The announcement was made via a post on the Canadian developer’s company website, Polytron Corporation, in which the somewhat infamous indie…

Geek Insider’s Most Anticipated Games of 2013

With Christmas and the Mayan apocalypse behind us we find ourselves looking out to 2013 and the fantastic line-up of video games that sit on the horizon. While it’s impossible to predict which titles will make their mark on the video game timeline, there are plenty of games due for release this year that are…

Control the Spice, Control the Universe: Dune II Playable Within Your Browser

Establish base, gather resources, build army, crush opponent. This simple series of events is the backbone of any real time strategy game (RTS) old or new and will be familiar to fans of StarCraft II back through to the original Command & Conquer. The progenitor of this template, Dune II, was developed and released back…

Sony ps vita is one of 2012’s worst product flops

Sony PS Vita is One of 2012’s Worst Product Flops

This time last year the gaming world readied itself for the release of Sony’s PlayStation Vita. Even though the device itself was a technological marvel, many were sceptical as to whether or not the Vita would overcome the stigma surrounding Sony’s hand held gaming efforts after the somewhat underwhelming PlayStation Portable (PSP). Unfortunately, the Vita’s first…

Impressive live action Deus Ex: Human Revolution fan film trailer released

The internet is full of lighthearted and entertaining fan films based off popular video game series, but the recently released trailer for a short film under the simple title of ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ is a far more serious venture. Clocking in at a short but sweet 1 minute 5 seconds there isn’t much to…

Capcom Celebrate Mega Man’s 25th Anniversary

Yesterday, December 17th, saw the 25th anniversary of Capcom mascot Mega Man. To celebrate Capcom have released a new game titled Mega Man x Street Fighter for absolutely free for PC users while also announcing that classic games Mega Man 1-6 will soon be available Nintendo’s 3DS eShop. The Mega Man series and character have been…

The nintendo wii mini – why canada?

The Nintendo Wii Mini – Why Canada?

Although released over a week ago, most of us are still baffled by Nintendo’s new Wii Mini, a Wii redesign with less features, no online functionality, a reduced price point and strangely enough, Canadian exclusivity. Nintendo’s official announcement regarding the reasoning behind it’s Canada-only availability is vague at best,“Wii Mini is available exclusively in Canada during…

Valve to sell Steam enabled PC packages in 2013

Gabe Newell, CEO of PC game digital distribution pioneer Valve has confirmed the company’s plans to enter the hardware market with a PC based device allowing customers to play purchased games directly on their televisions. In a recent talk with Kotaku, Newell made the following comments on the device which is set to be made…

Evidence suggests that ‘The Phantom Pain’ is Metal Gear Solid V

Being the first game trailer shown during Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, The Phantom Pain is certainly an impressive looking project. However since its original showing on Dec 7th  eagle-eyed gamers around the world have pointed to evidence suggesting that the game, purportedly under development by previously unheard of Moby Dick Studios, may in…