Kotaku: silver surfer

Foot Controlled Silver Surfer Game?

Brian Crecente — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 MDT

Robomodo's Tony Hawk skateboard controller may be destined for some stellar controls if Robomodo President Josh Tsui wasn't just spit balling during a recent dev presentation in Chicaogo.

Tsui was at this week's IGDA demo night in Chicago, Tsui showed off the board controller to the crowd, explaining how the original prototype design set the company back abot $3,000 to make. After getting Activision on board (harhar), Tony Hawk started helping out with product testing, eventually cracking an early prototype trying to perform an ollie.

The most interesting thing to come out of the presentation, it seems was not that Tsui envisions the skateboard being used for other games, we reported that a month or so back, but which types of games it might be used for.

Tsui mentioned that there are plenty of no-brainers, like surfing and snowboarding, but that there are also opportunities for Silver Surfer and Hobgoblin games in the future.

[Thanks news ninja AJ]

Gallery: Fantastic Four 2

Mike Fahey — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:24:22 MDT

The best thing the Fantastic Four 2 video game has going for it right now is that it has nothing to do with Spider-Man, and people really aren't expecting all that much from it. It's good to see the Thing looking more...Thingish, and I love the Invisible Woman effect despite the pointless between the legs shot. For a game about a movie subtitled The Rise of the Silver Surfer there is a distinct lack of metallic surfing guys in these images, but I'm sure the final game will have plenty of awesome Human Torch / Silver Surfer "I can see myself in your ass" moments. For now, enjoy these screens and imagine - just for a moment - that it might not suck. Michael Fahey

Clip: F4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer Teaser Trailer

fdemarco — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:00:00 MST

Another day, another super hero movie franchise video game. This time around it's the Silver Surfer in all his nearly nude glory. I know none of this is in-game footage, but the character animations on The Fantastic Four look alright, particularly The Thing. I'm not sure that I hold too much hope for this game as it seems to be yet another cheap attempt to cash in on a semi-obscure super hero (Ghost Rider anyone?). I was a big fan of Silver Surfer as a kid, so I hope they do him justice, but I shall reserve my judgment until I see some real footage of the game itself.Flynn De Marco

Take-Two Takes Four

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:40:45 MST

So first Sega walks away with the Iron Man rights, now Take-Two Interactive has procured the rights to publish games based off of the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel, subtitled The Rise of the Silver Surfer. The games will be released next year to coincide with the release of the film. No word yet on what consoles, but considering recent release trends for movie tie-ins, I'm gonna go ahead and bet on all of them.

Activision's handling of the FF was pretty piss-poor, releasing what seemed to me like an unfinished game on the general public, and Acclaim's Fantastic Four for the PS1 is widely considered to be one of the worst games of all time. Sue, Reed, Johnny and Ben's powers are just so different that no developer yet has come up with anything truly unique and massive enough to do the team justice. Third time's the charm? It's all on you, Take-Two.

Is it me, or is Activision hemorrhaging comic licenses lately?Michael Fahey

Take-Two picks up rights to Fantastic 4 sequel [Gamespot]