Video Games

Telltale Unveils Jurassic Park Game and 2011 Line-Up

Last year Telltale announced that they were working on both a series of adventure games for the classic movie franchises Back to the Future and Jurassic Park. With the recent release of the first two episodes of the Back to the Future game, many people were left wondering when we would see Jurassic Park and how it would be different to Telltale’s other products.

Recently Telltale announced several games that they will be bringing out
over the course of 2011. First up was the unveiling of the Jurassic Park
game with the trailer below.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Video Game Detailed

Activision has released news about the new Transformers movie tie in game.  The game will be released alongside the movie, also called Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  It is being developed by High Moon Studios.  Whose previous releases include Transformers: War for Cybertron, Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy, and Darkwatch.  The game will feature back-story about the Autobots and Decepticons battle and help setup story elements before the new movie gets released this summer.  You will also get your first glimpse at Shockwave the main villain in the game and the movie.

Mass Effect 2 Review

After a few years of sighing wistfully at the series from afar,
Playstation 3 owners finally get to try out Mass Effect for themselves
with this upgraded if imperfect port. They’ll probably never get to play
the first game on a Playstation thanks to Microsoft publishing it on
the 360, but with EA now controlling the series, part two is finally
available, and only about a year late. This release raises two questions
though, not only whether the game is worth playing at all, but also
whether it’s worth a shot on the PS3. The answer to the first is
definitely in the affirmative, but the second is closer to “only if it’s
the only system you can play it on”.

Hector: Badge of Carnage Coming to the PC

Hector: Badge of Carnage “Episode 1: We Negotiate With Terrorists” was a particularly fun and hilarious point-and-click adventure game for the iPod that featured solid writing and a unique hand drawn art style. It followed the titular Detective Inspector Hector as he rushed around the British town of Clappers Wreake trying to resolve a hostage situation.

Despite
its cartoony art style, Hector is quite clearly designed to be played
by more adult audiences with its own unique brand of humor as the
trailer below clearly illustrates. The game was quite well received and
it’s well worth checking out on the Appstore.

Felicia Day Making A Dragon Age Web Series

Nerd vixen Felicia Day, best known for her web series The Guild will write and star in a new live action Dragon Age webseries called Dragon Age Redemption.  Ms. Day will play an elven assassin named Tallis who was hired by the Qunari to hunt down a rogue mage.

You Don’t Know Jack (Xbox 360) Review

You Don’t Know Jack has been absent from gaming for the past 8 years.  Eight years is a long time for developer Jellyvision to not have anything on the store shelves.  With Jellyvision being absent from the trivia game scene for so long, are they able to come back and retake the trivia game thrown?

You Don’t Know Jack is a trivia game that features trivia about movies, TV, history, and other random facts.  The first thing you will notice is the humor and the commentary of You Don’t Know Jack.  When you first start up the game you will hear commentary in the background as if you were in a control room of a game show.  You hear producer type people talking about how long until title cards and to display the legal information.  You will also hear audio commercials and random conversations while sitting at the main menu waiting to choose a game.  It is great to just put the control down and listen to the craziness that some of these people are saying. 

Halo Reach Defiant Map Pack Dated for March

That Noble
map pack was either, really good or really, really bad. After what seems like
five minutes Halo Reach has another map pack due out in March, dubbed the
“Defiant Map Pack”. This pack will include three maps, one of them being for
Firefight, which is great for people like me who play a lot of Firefight. The
competitive maps seem to be much more close quarters based than the majority of
maps that are currently in Reach.