Posts By Julian Titus
Bloodbath Arena not quite ready.
Looks like people will have to wait a little longer for the first DLC of Dead Island. The Bloodbath Arena, which features four new multiplayer Arenas has been pushed back. According to the Dead Island Facebook page, the extra time needed to polish the retail release has impacted the production on the add-on.
It's not too late to score epic loot.
Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to 2009’s sleeper hit Demon’s Souls, is coming out in a matter of days. For fans of the punishing Action/RPG, publisher Namco Bandai has set up an interesting viral marketing campaign via the website preparetodie.com.
The director of Glee 3D hired by New Line.
Last year, relatively unknown director Kevin Tancharoen released a video online called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. It was unclear at first just what it was supposed to be; a trailer for the upcoming game series reboot, or a trailer for a new film. As it turns out, it was neither one, but instead a project Tancharoen did to show what he would like to do if he was given the chance to work on a new Mortal Kombat movie.
Zombies are so hot right now!
The trailer for Dead Island took everyone off-guard. It crossed over from the usual video games press and fandom into other areas of geekdom like comics and movies. It even got the attention of Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, who tweeted about it. The somber and poignant CG depicting a family falling to zombies created a tropical storm of hype.
Hopefully that armor has a heating system.
Dead Space 3 has yet to be announced formally by EA, but that’s not going to keep the proverbial cat (or is that necromorph?) from getting out of the bag. After the success of Dead Space 2, and the cross-media blitz that EA has done with the franchise, a third game in the series was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Get your click on early next year.
Blizzard is one of the few game developers to have the luxury of releasing a game “when it’s done”. Considering that the company was able to release both Starcraft 2 and the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft in one year it should come as no surprise that they have decided to delay Diablo III.
This galaxy is closer than you think.
It looks as if EA has a pretty firm release date set for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The highly-anticipated MMORPG from BioWare has been in development for quite some time, and rumors of an astronomical budget have created an understandable amount of skepticism regarding release dates.
