video games-related stories
Posted Nov 12th 2009 10:02AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Web, Reality-Free
If there aren't already enough
Star Wars video games for your liking, you can make your own with Cartoon Network's
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator.
With the animated action show continuing to draw big numbers on Friday nights, its home network is serving up a chance for fans to
build their own Clone Wars game and share it with other gamers.
According to the network, these game creators aren't a stunt to generate TV show buzz. The
Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator posted more than 630 million game plays since it went live a year ago, with more than 4.6 million games created by online visitors.
Once fans open their game creator, they choose their character (Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex or Cad Bane) and their vehicle (AT-TE, AT-RT or Speeder), allowing nine different combinations of character abilities and vehicle powers.
Continue reading Cartoon Network lets Clone Wars fans design online games
Posted Oct 28th 2009 8:02PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Reality-Free
If you're a fan of
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and you want to know what happened between Season One and the now-running Season Two, you're going to need a video game system.
The story in the new game,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - "Republic Heroes" bridges the gap between the show's first two runs, as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and their loyal Clone Trooper comrades take on a new Separatist enemy packing a freshly polished doomsday weapon.
Available for PS3, Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360, "Republic Heroes" lets you play as a Jedi Knight or as a Clone Trooper -- depending on where you are in the game and what choices you make as a player.
Continue reading New Clone Wars game ties into Star Wars series canon
Posted Oct 12th 2009 4:03PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway
Here's your chance to make it work.
Variety has posted that
Project Runway is becoming a video game for the Nintendo Wii made by Atari. I guess it was to no one's surprise, many TV shows become video games (
CSI,
Grey's Anatomy,
Iron Chef America) all with varying degrees of success. Even
America's Next Top Model has a video game for the Nintendo DS, but it's only available in Europe.
There is no word of when the game is releasing or any meaty details. We do know that the game will follow the show's format: design a dress, make-up and hair, runway, and judging.
Continue reading Project Runway: The video game?
Posted Sep 15th 2009 8:09PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Dexter, Software, Reality-Free
One of the most anticipated iPhone apps since the "iFart" has finally found its way to the App Store.
The official Dexter video game from Marc Ecko Entertainment and Icarus Studios finally made it to Apple's App Store yesterday after more than a year in anxious development. The game is also set to be released on the PC, as well, but a release date hasn't been officially set yet.
Continue reading Dexter game hits Apple's App Store
Posted Aug 21st 2009 8:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Heroes, Reality-Free
I know, I know, maybe I should have said "Mr. Spock wants to save arcades," but readers probably wouldn't know if I was talking about Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto, so Sylar it is.
Quinto is trying to help Stride Gum with a special promotion to help raise money to
save four old arcades. They've set up a
web site where you can help too.
I didn't even realize that old school arcades were on the decline. Sure, I knew that home video game consoles are more popular than ever (I have a Playstation II and a Blu-ray player that plays games myself), but I thought they would still fill a niche for kids. Guess kids would rather stay at home or at their friend's home than go to an arcade. I remember when I was in my teens/early 20s I went to the arcade quite a bit. My game was Millipede.
Do people still bowl?
Posted Aug 18th 2009 12:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free
Is television taking up too much of your time? Do you find yourself spending night after night on the couch, spending hours of quality time clutching your remote in the hopes it will lead you down the primrose path of perfect entertainment? Have you wasted entire days of your life decreasing the firmness of the coils in your couch with your ever increasing ass planted firmly in front of the idiot box?
If so, maybe a more physical activity would perk up your droll and dull life. Why not put down that remote, throw that
TV Guide in the trash compactor and pick up that video game controller for a few hours of TV-related interactive entertainment? Because exercise is for people with no creative thought for self-entertainment.
Here is just a sample of some TV show game spinoffs headed to an XBox, Playstation or coffee table near you.
Continue reading Not wasting enough time watching TV? Try these upcoming TV games
Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:35AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
There is nothing inherently wrong with turning a TV series into a video game spinoff. It can fill in the gaps between seasons to quell the viewers' hunger, let audiences explore characters from new perspectives and even give the more hardcore couch potatoes some much needed exercise even if they only burned 1/100ths of a calorie solely through their thumbs.
The problem is video game developers pick TV shows that should never even become a travel sized board game. Developers have given the greenlight to games based on shows like
American Idol,
Desperate Housewives and even ...
Grey's Anatomy?!? I hope that last one was a first-person shooter.
There are far better shows that offer far more entertaining elements for a kick-ass video game. These are the shows that should be next in line for a pixelated re-treatment.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Shows that deserve to have their own video game
Posted Jun 6th 2009 9:05AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Sports, OpEd, Video
The saga of video game champion Steve Wiebe, the man made famous by the wonderful documentary film
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, is one that will be told on mountain tops by the elders of the tribes to young men as they pass into adulthood.
Wiebe struggled to achieve the success he so richly deserved for chasing the
Donkey Kong world champion title from
the Twin Galaxies score organization, due in part to the underhanded and downright evil efforts of reigning champion and
Donkey Kong douchebag Billy Mitchell. Even though he has surpassed Mitchell's scores since the release of the film, Mitchell always seemed to be one barrel behind him, making Wiebe even more of an iconic hero to geeks, spazzes, dweebs and everyone else.
So at this year's E3 video game expo, the G4 Network gave Wiebe and his many fans the chance to reclaim the title for humble people everywhere by broadcasting his nine hour attempt live on television. It may sound like something that could make your eyes bleed no matter how close you were sitting to the TV, but it became hands down one of my 10 greatest sporting broadcasts of the year. And this is from a network that runs reruns of both
COPS and
Cheaters.
Continue reading Donkey Kong champ Steve Wiebe tries to defeat evil live on television
Posted Apr 20th 2009 2:05PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, 24, Scrubs, The Shield, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
The TV is a weird beast. Your show can have ridiculously high ratings, receive greater critical claim than the Mona Lisa and achieve a cult following not seen since the People's Temple, and the network can still pull the plug on you.
TV Land doesn't work like Reality Land, if the Reality Land is in fact reality and not some bizarre reality land where meat-hungry producers are the gods of fate. TV has a different equation for success.
Here are the ten telltale signs that your new show will spend eternity shining in the pantheon of the cosmos and the rest of its life on Best Buy's DVD shelves.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Signs your show has made it
Posted Apr 13th 2009 10:30AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Daytime, Reality-Free
Seriously, you'll never guess. Go ahead and try.
Now if you did just try and venture a guess, let me point out how incredibly stupid you are. You just answered a question verbally at a computer.
And no matter what your answer was, chances are it was wrong. If you had a million guesses, a team of round-the-clock researchers, and more than half of a century to sit down and figure out the answer, you still wouldn't get it. It's THAT bizarre.
Continue reading You'll never guess which TV star is getting his own video game...
Posted Mar 6th 2009 3:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Software, Reality-Free
If you're a wobbly-kneed, amateur chef with a tendency to wet your pants anytime someone's voice goes a few decibels higher in your direction, a good version of the
Hell's Kitchen video game should make you wish you put on your rubber pants before you started playing.
Unfortunately, the real version isn't even worth shelling out for the price of a pair of extra-large Depends.
The game lacks in just about every area imaginable, from gameplay to ambiance, most notably and disappointingly from the angry chef himself, whose mean stare can make puppies cry and anger spittle can burn a hole in your face like hot alien acid.
Continue reading Hell's Kitchen - video game review
Posted Jul 17th 2008 7:57AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free
I've never interviewed
Babylon 5 creator
J. Michael Straczynski and don't know him personally, but he sure seems like one classy guy. He recently posted a note on
his web site, giving readers his thoughts on more
Babylon 5 DVDs.
In short, he's against it. He feels that offerings like the TV movie,
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, and the straight-to-DVD story,
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, take away from the strength of the original TV series.
He writes that
The Lost Tales was commissioned at a $2 million budget, and they did the best they could with it. Apparently, the studio wasn't sure there was an audience for
Babylon 5. Silly studio.
Continue reading Straczynski: It's a Babylon 5 feature film or nothing
Posted Mar 3rd 2008 8:58PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Dexter
Too many anguished nights have I spent watching Showtime's
Dexter, wondering aloud, "Why can't I control
Dexter's actions through my Xbox like so much Lara Croft?", and I know you have too. Believe it or not, we freaks are in luck, because it looks like there's going to be a
Dexter video game. Finally! Another few months without it and I would have killed someone.
Okay, I think I have reached my sarcasm quota of the day, so let's get serious here.
Dexter is a fantastic show and I have watched it faithfully through its run so far. However much I enjoy it, I cannot imagine it becoming a video game, let alone playing it. The show is built around blood, self-tortured deception, and internal monologue.
Continue reading Dexter finally comes to the Xbox 360
Posted Dec 2nd 2007 6:40PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Documentary, Software
Would you play a
Meerkat Manor video game? I sure would--I would love to play as Flower leading her massive group of offspring around. I'm sure the fight scenes would be good too. Those meerkats have some pretty sweet moves.
Well, if you love
Meerkat Manor and you love video games, you're in luck because Activision (the same people who brought you the immensely-popular
Guitar Hero 3) has teamed up with Discovery Communications. The two companies are in talks to produce a series of video games based on cable network's shows.
They decided on
Meerkat Manor for the first game (it is Animal Planet's highest-rated show) and more titles will be released in early 2008. I wonder what other shows they will turn into video games? Discovery Communications has several cable networks so they have a wide array of shows to serve as the basis for a multi-media project (i.e. Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel). I have a few suggestions:
Man vs. Wild (or
Survivorman if you like him better),
Orangutan Island and
Deadliest Catch.
Posted Nov 7th 2007 11:02PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E13) After seeing the title of this episode, I'm more embarrassed than I already was to admit that I'm a fan of Guitar Hero. In fact, I own all four versions of the game. There. I said it.
Thankfully, I will say that I never have, nor will I ever, play in my underwear. As far as you know.
This was a strange episode given what we've been seeing the past few weeks. We barely got anyone other than Stan and Kyle this time, but what we got was, as always, pure gold. Oh and by the way, one of our sister sites, Joystiq,
liveblogged the episode tonight.
Continue reading South Park: Guitar Queer-o
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