Microsoft and Skullcandy — the parent company of ASTRO Gaming — have announced that they will release a series of Halo-branded headsets, speaker tags, and other products.
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Walking Dead Pinball Announced
Zen Studios, Telltale Games, and The Walking Dead writer/co-creator Robert Kirkman have announced that they will release a Walking Dead pinball table for consoles, PCs, and mobile devices — including, presumedly, Zen Pinball for PlayStation and Pinball FX 2 for Xbox and PC — later this summer.
The idea behind Facebook is to bring people together. But in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics, the idea is to bring people together…so you can smack them. Though in talking to Disney Interactive’s Gabe Brown, the Executive Producer of Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics, there might be a little more to it.
Evil Controllers have announced that they will release a series of Mario Kart-themed Custom WiiU Pro Controllers on May 23rd.
Kotobukiya have announced that they will release the Japanese ARTFX statue of Halo‘s Master Chief in the U.S. this November.
Jeff Broadbent is no stranger to games. A composer and sound designer, he’s worked on the post-apocalyptic single-player-focused I Am Alive, the sci-fi online-only Planetside 2, the movie-inspired Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, the upcoming near-future military skirmish Tom Clancy’s Endwar Online, as well as his most recent work on the fantasy multiplayer online battle area game Dawngate. But in talking to him about that latter game, Broadbent went into how a game’s setting and genre can influence the music he makes for it.
As a Jew-ish, World War II first-person shooter fan whose history with the Wolfenstein series goes back to the original 2D game from 1981, Castle Wolfenstein, I came to the first-person shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order cautious but hopeful. But MachineGames — who made it for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC — have managed to assuage my fears and exceed my hopes by making a Wolfenstein game that plays like modern-style first-person shooter.
If you’ve been to this site more than once, you might’ve noticed that I have an affinity for the pinball games made by Zen Studios. Be they based on the Star Wars movies, Marvel Comics, or an original idea, Zen’s pinball tables always manage to mix realistic physics and sounds with physic-ly impossible mechanics. Which, for a gamer who grew up on pinball, hits a real sweet spot.
I recently had a chance to pick the brain of Peter Grafl, one of the pinball table designers at Zen Studios, and asked him who decides what tables they’ll make, how they’re designed, and what tables he’d like to make.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment have announced that they will release the movie Need For Speed — which was inspired by the video game racing series of the same name — on DVD, as a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, and digitally on August 5th.