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Monday, December 17, 2007
Resident Evil Degeneration Trailer!
That looks good. I think the current series with Mila should watch it's back.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Rumor Killed so fast we hardly knew it: Resident Evil Extinction has no demos on the Blu Ray
"Some errant reporting this morning led a few sites—including Sony's own semi-official blog ThreeSpeech—to believe that the Blu-ray disc movie release of Resident Evil: Extinction would ship with playable demos of Devil May Cry 4 and Resident Evil 5 for the PlayStation 3. Sorry, but that's just not true, as Capcom has confirmed.Actually, the rumor was carried on all most every site. I think even Kotaku.. Hehe! Anyway, I we will just have to be happy with the movie. Unfortunately, the whole thing was kind of destined for falsehood from the beginning. Devil May Cry 4 might be done enough for a demo eventually but Resident Evil 5? That is circa holiday 2008. Silly rumormongers!Users will have to make do with high definition trailers for both games and crystal clear 1080p stills of Milla Jovovich in thigh-revealing outfit."Kotaku...
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Capcom's BIG Announcement! Lost Planet?
Capcom's announcement from 1UP"Capcom Reveals New Games, IP in LondonSome cool announcements but Lost Planet for the PS3? Is this a big deal? I dunno, I guess I'll give it a shot, but it seems a little anticlimactic.
Lost Planet PS3, sci-fi Dark Void, SF2 HD delay, more.
By Patrick Klepek, 10/17/2007
What happened in London was supposed to stay in Londonuntil embargoes expired, but Games Radar defied the marketing folks at Capcom this morning and published a story detailing many of the announcements coming out of their media briefing overseas today. Games Radar has since taken down the article, but the announcements are no less intriguing.As Street Fighter IV is announced, another is delayed. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD will not find itself on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this year, as Capcom works on reducing the effects of lag for online multiplayer. The remake will also introduce true widescreen support and remixed music.
Capcom also revealed a brand-new sci-fi IP, Dark Void. Does Dead Space have some competition? Not much is known about Dark Void, but Games Radar said the trailer showed "third-person and air-vehicle gameplay with a character wearing a steam punk jetpack, skydiving and landing in the cockpit of a gyroscopic aircraft, and then jumping and climbing through airbase fortesses [sic]."
And confirming something we all suspected would happen eventually, Lost Planet is arriving on PlayStation 3 in early 2008. The PS3 version will include all content released over Xbox Live, bonus characters from the PC version and apparently support up to 16 players over PSN.
Additionally, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney made an appearance on Nintendo DS, but we already knew about that one, along with Wii Love Golf from the studio behind Mario Golf.
1UP is at Capcom's event now, but our lips are sealed until later this week -- stay tuned."
Monday, October 15, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
We don't like Wii better, it's just Cheap!
"Capcom managing corporate officer Katsuhiko Ichii explains why they jumped ship:Due to high development cost of titles for PS3, we have decided to switch the platform to which we release our Monster Hunter 3 title."Kotaku
OK, someone in PR at Capcom is probably losing sleep over this right now. If this is the case why didn't they just release it for the PS2 or the PSP? After all, those consoles have to be even CHEAPER to develop games on. I just can't believe he said that...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Alternet the uninformed and crazy seems to extend beyond Jack Thompson
The article talks about how Resident Evil Extinction is a racist movie based on a racist video game series.
Well, this is an interesting statement because up until Resident Evil 4 there were only white people in Resident Evil. So I guess the Japanese developers are racist against white people. As a white person, I don't mind...
Resident Evil 4 took place in a Spanish village and area which pretty much makes it impossible not to have Spanish speaking zombies. Just like if it took place in a German village; the villagers would be speaking German. Not really racist right?
Finally, in Resident Evil Extinction there are African Americans among the zombies but very few are really seen on screen at once, if much at all. Perhaps I'm too racial ignorant because I didn't notice it at all. I do remember seeing a large number of white people as zombies, as I expected.
At the very least Roberto Lovato was being ignorant and inflammatory in this article. Personally, it just seems like a reaction to the allegations that Resident Evil 5's trailer was racist. Which hasn't gotten much traction. Therefore, we need to move on to the next thing that seems like the same thing. Which many alarmists and people like the infamous Jack Thompson like to do. These people usually have a loud voice and a good place to use that voice.
I hope Mr. Lovato will do more research on his stories before he writes them. As journalists it is our responsibility to get all the FACTS before we write a story. It strikes me that Mr. Lovato hasn't ever played Resident Evil, any of them. And probably didn't even bother to watch any of the Resident Evil movies, where African Americans and Hispanic Americans have been supporting cast members. These are token roles, but then video games movies usually equal a token role for minorities. That might be an issue to address, but I doubt it would have the same inflammatory impact that the current article has on his readers.
In the end, I just want to say that these are Japanese made games and they have no concept of racism. The movies ARE made by Americans but I do think that much care is taken in Hollywood to try and make everything politically correct. But all of the criticism would be fine with me; if they were valid. Or if the comments were coming along with proof from the games and films. But that seems to be too much work. I just hope Mr. Lovato never tries to write that kind of fluff for a major news outlet because his editor would be all over him. When a journalist writes a story on the internet it should be taken just as seriously as if it was in a newspaper or magazine. These kinds of stories give a black eye to all the people struggling to be taken seriously in the world of mass media. Thanks Roberto Lovato for making my job harder...
Monday, September 24, 2007
My Undead Heart is about to burst: Resident Evil Extinction leads weekend box office!
"Resident Evil: Extinction Leads Box OfficeSony estimates a $24 million gross for the weekend.
By Andrew Hayward, 09/24/2007Resident Evil: Extinction, the third film in the game-based film trilogy, opened atop the North American box office this weekend with $24 million across 2,828 theaters, according to studio estimates released yesterday. As reported on Friday, analysts projected a $20-21 million opening weekend for the film, which was budgeted at about $45 million.
Should the estimates hold true, Extinction will have earned just slightly more in its opening weekend than its immediate predecessor, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which also opened at #1 with $23 million in 2004. According to Box Office Mojo, Extinction sold fewer tickets than Apocalypse, though the rising costs of film tickets made up the difference (and then some). Apocalypse lost steam after its opening weekend, drawing $51 million in total over its domestic theatrical run. We'll be keeping tabs on Extinction to see if it has more staying power than its predecessors.
Dane Cook vehicle Good Luck Chuck met projections with an estimated $14 million over the weekend, landing squarely in the second slot (ahead of last week's top flick, The Brave One, which brought in an additional $7.4 million). Actual numbers are expected to be available later this afternoon -- we'll update if the final numbers diverge significantly from the estimates."1UP....
I also dropped my money on this movie and I have to say that it is the weakest of the trilogy but certainly not a bad movie. I love these movies but I have some problems with this one.
First and foremost in Resident Evil Apocalypse Alice had these incredible mind blowing mental powers. But in this movie she hardly uses them even when Umbrella all ready knows where she is.
Second, the ending was horrible and could easily lead to another movie and this was supposed to be the last one. I'm not even sure I want to see a fourth movie; they completely accelerated a story line that could have been told over at least 6 movies but they decided to make this a trilogy and do a horrible job of telling what happened between 2 and 3. Besides that, never fleshing out Alice's character even though she is basically the main character of the trilogy.
Third, this movie was FAR TOO SHORT! An hour and a half is just not enough for a movie anymore. Most movies with descent stories are at least 2 hours now a days and they could have used this time to prevent the movie from looking like a sequel could be forthcoming.
I would just like to say that as much as I really love Mila and the whole cast of these movies, especially Valentine(Sienna Guillory). But what would have been wrong with doing the actual Resident Evil video game story? I mean it would have taken some editing and probably some modernizing but it could have been a landmark series for movies based on video games.
As much as I'd love to see another Resident Evil movie, I think it probably would be best not to have one. Because after Extinction there really isn't anything left...
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Tokyo Game Show 2007, Not feeling it...
In a recent podcast the 1UP folks talked about how the Wii has made a major difference in the way that games are shown at Press shows and how they have changed the way games are seen in the eyes of all consumers. Strangely this was very evident at a show where Nintendo as a company didn't show, Tokyo Game Show.
The carnival atmosphere around Wii games is just insane. The PR people should probably just start hawking, "Step right up, step right up, try your hand at the Wiimote and win a prize!"
The problem, of course, is not the Wii. It might be Japan at the heart of all this. The Japanese seem to be a little unhappy with the next generation. Their sales are pretty bad across both Sony and Microsoft's consoles.
The love seems wholly directed at Nintendo's franchises and hardware. These same franchises are holding to the last generation graphics and in many cases last generation gameplay. Nothing to see here folks, move along...
There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. But these folks are not representative of the masses. Folks like Tecmo, Koei, Capcom, and Sony Worldwide Studios are trying to play both sides and doing a pretty good job. But they are the people bucking the trend it seems, not creating it.
The Mistwalkers and Square Enix's of the world are happy to just keep making what they have been making for years. All most all games shown at the show except for a few stand out games like: Ninja Gaiden 2, Devil May Cry 4, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo, and Eye of Judgement. The majority of the games at the show are all too happy to just continue what they have been doing all along.
As much as I enjoyed both last year's and the year before that's Tokyo Game Show this year's show just doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. I'm truly and uttering tired of turn based RPGs. White Knight Story, Lost Odyssey, and from the looks of it Last Remnant can all dry up and disappear. These games all most all ways have nothing going for them at the core. If their stories were compelling all the mindless battles could be forgiven but this is usually not the case. I will wait for Persona 4, because it seems like they are the only folks capable of telling a descent RPG story nowadays.
I'm not terribly excited about the 100 FPS games coming out in the next year either though. But I don't think that the way to fix that blight on the video game industry is create as many lame RPGs as possible or heaven forbid as many mini game compilations as possible.
Maybe this is just a cultural or generational difference; but all I can say is that once upon a time I thought that Japanese developers were the saviors of this industry and maybe they would have been if it wasn't for Nintendo who stole all their souls in the name of the mass market and money. Now we only have Sony to look to for our salvation and I think everyone can agree that, that isn't a good thing.