The New Red Dawn Movie Channels a Little Bit of Homefront
If you played Homefront, the new trailer for the remake of 1984's Red Dawn is going to seem like déjà vu all over again.
Red Dawn's Writer Didn't Actually Write Homefront's Script, Say…
In a superb autopsy of Kaos Studios, closed three months after it finished Homefront for THQ, Gamasutra's Leigh Alexander paints a vivid picture of a studio doomed by meddling, duplicitous executives, and filled with underqualified managers, overworked developers and even an overflowing urinal.
North Korea May Be Japan's Forbidden Bad Guys
One of the last year's most uncomfortable experiences was sitting in a room full of Japanese press and watching as North and South Korea united and then overran Japan. That experience, however, is now lost to time, and the game, first person shooter Homefront, is all the less interesting because of it.
Meet The Man Responsible For Your North Korean Fears
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This is John Milius. Writer, director and NRA member, Milius is bringing his vision to video gaming next month with Homefront.
Homefront Brings North Korean Invasion To Book Platform
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THQ's grim view of the future, in which North Korea somehow has the wherewithal to invade the United States, is being ported to books. Homefront is getting a novelization from people who know how to make game stories readable.
They're Gonna Make An Apocalypse Now Game? Really?
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Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now could very well be getting a video game. Oh dear.