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The answer? A song. More »
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If ever there was a character that needed a fresh new video game, it's Detroit's finest, Alexander James Murphy. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Korio8 asks us to dream up a modern game that's half-man, half-machine, and all awesome. More »
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And it's got nothing to do with serving the public trust, protecting the innocent or upholding the law. More »
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RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven is having a go at the video game movie business, working on an "Indiana Jones-ish" but also "Hitchcockian" video game set in the year 1914. Could it be anything other than Jordan Mechner's The Last Express? More »
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I just read the most amazing little write-up by Steve Hogarty over at PCZone. He theorizes that BioShock is based upon RoboCop, a sort of archetypal allusion, breaking the argument down point by point. Interesting parallels include conflicts in programming, humanizing flashbacks, big daddies (remember those faceless ED-209's?), shameful period advertising and even the titles 'BioShock' and 'RoboCop' when broken down into syllabicate structures. The only element I see missing is the Little Sisters...yeah, my mind just can't fill in that gap with literary theory. More »
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