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I can't decide if this guy sounds like Eddie Vedder, Adam Sandler, or the Bud Light "Real Men of Genius" singer. But he's singing, "MEGA MEGA MEGA MANNNN ... HE'LL SAVE THE EFFIN' DAY." More »
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Exidy's Death Race, of 1976, might have been the first game adaptation and yeah, it was kind of lame, setting a standard for adaptations for decades to come. (It was inspired by 1975's Death Race 2000 starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine). But man did it cause a stink. Players ran down stickmen with a car, eliciting screams and turning the screen into a graveyard of pedestrians. The game had no color, no digitized sound, no blood splatter, no ragdoll physics, its violence was abstract in both audio and video, and it made 60 Minutes as a national outrage. More »
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Rob Zacny has a thought provoking piece up at the Escapist: on the whole, we're the worst genre when it comes to preserving our history, even the great classics acknowledged as 'great.' In a society — never mind technical area — where progress and marching forward is the name of the game, it's not exactly surprising, but a problem nonetheless. And not just for the history buffs among us: More »
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Microsoft has announced plans to release six classic Atari titles over Xbox live, starting this January. Missile Command. Battlezone, Tempest, and Warlords are in the works, along with dual releases of Centipede/Millipede and Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=212599&view=rss&microfeed=true Planet Gamecube has an interview up with Retro Studios on the upcoming Wii launch title, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. There's some good stuff here... for one, we were pleased to read that Samus will be getting layered beam effects back, a la Super Metroid, instead of the weapon switching of the last two games. But does this sound cool or what? More »
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