Okay, everybody? Gather round. I’m about to say something that you’ll probably never hear again. As of this second, I take back all the nasty, snarky things I’ve said about Big N, and I’m really seriously thinking about getting a DS.
I’ll let you pick yourselves or your jaws up off the floor so I can explain. The DS, thanks to Barcelona company Gammick, is about to release a sweet little nugget of joy called–get this–Zombie BBQ. I heard about this sucker thanks to the indomitable Nick Chester’s blog on Destructoid, and it’s enough to get me to take back a whole lot of nasty words about Nintendo.
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I admit it, I used to like wrestling. When I was a kid, I couldn’t get enough man-on-man fisticuffs. I thought I had outgrown my fascination with Sports Entertainment. But apparently, there is still a little part of me that wants to see another man in a figure four leglock, desperately trying to keep his knee in one piece.
Firepro Wrestling Returns was released late last year for the PlayStation 2 for under $20. That should give you some idea of how primitive this game is. But it is still an utterly ridiculously, completely captivating experience. Who knew?
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It’s clearer than ever that the zombie film has a whole new—unlife?—to it these days. Between all the various direct-to-video and indie installments and the dramatic and downright unnerving resurgence of the Grand Old Man of zombie cinema, George Romero himself, the zombie horror subclass is moving like Friday night in the morgue.
But gaining in popularity—this is the second such title I can remember hearing of lately—is the concept of shooting a zombie movie from the zombie’s perspective. This time around, it’s called Zombies Anonymous. With Zombie Apocalypse at the door and a war between the recently dead and the otherwise just getting fired up, a young lady named Angela just got killed by her insane ex-boyfriend. Now she’s dead…for a little while, until she comes back as a zombie. Now forced to straddle the line between the life she remembers and the unlife she currently inhabits, she’s going to have to get things figured out…and fast.
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Hey everybody, guess what?? I actually have MORE reason to hate Charles Band than ever before! Not only is this the same tool that announced that his company is, in fact, in the TOY BUSINESS (funny, I thought it was in the movie business, but that was before every movie they released had a toy line available, in some cases, BEFORE the film hit shelves), and the exact same tool that released a movie about the bong that killed people, and then plotted its sequel…but now, now…now he’s just done it.
He’s releasing, in a matter of Any Time Now, Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust. A movie about a killer gingerbread man somehow merits a sequel. Oh, and you want to know how bad this franchise actually is? Here’s the GOOD news about Gingerdead Man 2! GARY BUSEY WILL NOT BE INVOLVED!
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Lately, the cast of the cult T.V. series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been getting around. Mike Nelson, the second host, has been producing his own “Rifftrax,” MP3s featuring humorous commentary meant to be played simultaneously with various films, big-budget and otherwise. Puppeteers and voice actors Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy have joined him, while original host Joel Hodgson teamed up with villainess Mary Jo Pehl and former villain/puppeteer Trace Beaulieu to form Cinematic Titanic, a similar venture.
But lest you think they’re all stuck in the past, it turns out that Bill Corbett, the second voice of Crow T. Robot, has something else entirely going on. He’s teamed up with popular comic actor and Razzie winner Eddie Murphy for a film you might have heard about - Meet Dave.
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A little film called Drillbit Taylor first surfaced several weeks ago, and had a mostly tepid reception amongst the blogging public. It didn’t have a particularly promising premise; Owen Wilson as a homeless man who poses as a bodyguard when he realizes it’s the perfect “in” to robbing houses. His clients? Unpopular schoolkids who get bullied.
On the surface, it doesn’t seem like much. But then some interesting factoids were unearthed.
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You know…I don’t really have anything against 50 Cent personally. If you can get shot THAT many times and still be walking around there’s a certain level of respect for that. But the man should NOT be making video games. And in case the first pile of steamy crapola that was his first one wasn’t convincing enough for you (After watching Sessler cover it on X-Play, I’m amazed Sessler can still walk upright without throwing up just from the memory of this nightmare.) maybe this’ll convince you.
Nick Chester, in his Destructoid blog, related to us the story of the upcoming 50 Cent video game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
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Grand Theft Auto Zombie! Man, who would’ve thought you could see those words ever put together in one exciting bundle of glee? Well, there they are, for better or for worse.
I found out about Vice City: Long Night whilst perusing some game reviews and discovered that, indeed, someone had managed to modify Grand Theft Auto: Vice City into a game featuring zombies.
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Okay, so by now, everybody is well aware of the enterprising soul out there took advantage of N+ (whose motto must be identical to that of Globo Gym from Dodgeball: “We’re Better Than You! And We Know It!”) and its level design feature to create actual replicas of The Legend of Zelda.
It’s amazing, make no mistake, and I can just hear the boys at Big N shrieking in rage that their console titles have basically been ganked out from under them and there’s really not much they can do about it.
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Link attacking spaceships with a sword! The Spy Hunter car shooting Goombas! Has the world gone crazy? Yes, yes it has. Rom Check Fail is a crazy freeware game that combines a bunch of 80s game into a tight, WarioWare type package. It’s completely nuts and I love every second of it.
The game is a jumbled mismatch of classic games in a bite-sized shell. Each level is just one screen with the goal merely to eliminate your foes. But it changes constantly. One second you’re playing as Pac-Man trying to dodge the ships from Space Invaders and all of a sudden you become Mario and your enemies are waving parallel lines from some game I don’t recognize. Rom Check Fail is now the number one cause of ADD.
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