Four long years ago, world-reknowned creators of Halo and the yet-unannounced space-epic Destiny announced an interesting project: Bungie Aerospace. Aerospace was a brilliant initiative from the minds at Bungie to partner with small developers and provide them with the initiative, funds, and community to cultivate and launch amazing games. Per Audacia ad Astra – Through Boldness To The Stars – was the motto. A powerful term first coined by the philosophical...
A LOOK INTO MUNITIO In late 2009, Munitio introduced themselves to the world, out of nowhere. A self proclaimed “precision sound company”, specializing in lifestyle electronic accessories. Let’s be honest, in 2009 you probably didn’t even know that Munitio actually existed. What put them on the map then, and ultimately gave the small company a chance to prove their ability to blow large competitors out of the water, was the release of their Billet...
Rockstar Games announced today that the much anticiapted heists update will be hitting Grand Theft Auto V on March 10th, more than a year and a half since the games original launch. Grand Theft Auto V’s heists have been one of the most anticipated multiplayer feature of the game, and fans are more than ready to get their hands on them. While many (including myself) have been tough on Rockstar for missing their originally launch date by over a year, hopefully the time...
it is not a surprise that Nintendo’s new Amiibo line is here to stay, but what is the reason behind its success? In a new report Nintendo stated that characters that have been selling out and less popular characters will be getting reprints and also redistribution as nfc equipped cards. To me this could undermine what is making the figures popular in the first place. The exclusivity, the rarity is what entices the 20-30 something to buy these figures; all in hope of...
This weeks 20 Questions will be with Dan Mitre (Community Manager BF Hardline) @dan_mitre Seven million players got their hands on the Battlefield Hardline Beta from February 3-9, allowing EA and Visceral Games to gather a mountain of data to mine, feedback to read, and videos to watch. But rest assured, as Dan Mitre says, “We still hold strong to the March 17th ship date”. That’s great to hear that Visceral Games has dedicated so much time to listening to...
Last week we brought you the oddity that was the Mohawk Grenade, this week we’re going to step it up a notch. Back in 2010, Kotaku gave the world a great gift to celebrate the new decade: autotuned video games. From the Night Elf Mohawk, Mr T, to the Mushroom Kingdom’s Star Plumber, and all the way down to the slums of Liberty City, we have some wonderful singers. Check out the video below and you’ll understand why I still watch this video five years...
This weeks Watch This gives us some very, very odd feelings. Remember back in 2010 when Blizzard thought putting Mr. T in World of Warcraft through the use of Mohawk Grenades was a good idea? Yeah. Unfortunately we do too. These commercials are some of the most bizarre gaming adverts we’ve seen at any time, and we’re not sure if we’ll ever be as confused as we were back then.
This weeks 20 Questions will be with Ryan Duffin (Senior Animator at DICE) @AnimationMerc You can not look anywhere today without seeing some sort of animation. From a logo on your phone to a commercial about car insurance animations are everywhere and in everything. Animations or the process of creating motion thru a series of pictures has evolved from simple pictures to clay motion, puppet, model, pixilation, 2D, 3D, mechanical, and special effects among many variations of...
Heading in to the theater for my screening of Project Almanac, I had heard very little. The solitary trailer I had seen months earlier had sparked my interest, and the idea of “Chronicle with time travel” sounded compelling enough to give it a go. For the uninitiated, Chronicle was 2012’s highly heralded found-footage style film (Not sure why everyone seems to forget about Cloverfield, although that’s besides the point…) that followed a group of teenagers as they...
This weeks 20 Questions will be with Dan Sheridan (EA UK Marketing Battlefield, BioWare, Need for Speed & Titanfall) @EA_ActionMan. Thoughts of the competition between the UK and the USA— police procedures, living standards, video games, laws, all crossed my mind. I read numerous articles on the all the aforementioned items and found it all quite boring. What I did find very interesting was that while United Kingdom and Canada continue to give tax breaks to game...
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