The New York City Fringe Festival gives us hundreds of artsy new plays every year. But this year, it’s also giving us boobs. Boobs attached to women dressed like characters from Star Trek and Star Wars. You can see these naked space women in a Burlesque/ Comedy show called The Star Debate: Trek VS Wars.
Every summer New York City hosts an off-off-Broadway theater festival that produces 200 plays in two weeks. The Fringe Festival targets young and hip audiences, so it shouldn’t be surprising to find some comic book and video game themed shows like The Custodian: A Superhero Comedy written and Directed by Will Lacker.
I’d like to make a confession. I have never played Halo. To be precise, I have played it for thirty seconds, whenHalo: Combat Evolved was just released, and I have not played it since.
With the release of the quirky, Biblical El Shaddai: Ascent of the Metatron on the horizon, here at Player Affinity we felt the time was right to point out a few other video games based on biblical characters and themes. Regardless of your religious persuasion, it’s hard to deny that the Bible has some very powerful stories- the Beast of Revelations, Adam and Eve, Sodom and Gomorrah and the eternal struggle between Heaven and Hell, to name just a few.
Some of the best games of the last console generation are getting HD remakes, like the original Halo and Resident Evil 4. Of course I would also be perfectly happy to throw the non-HD version ofResident Evil 4 in my Gamecube and take it for a spin without any need for updates. These games will probably be even better with the HD updates, but they were great the way they were too. But there are some games released around the same time that failed miserably because they arrived a generation too early. Instead of focusing on revamping just the old hits, the game industry should consider some of the well-intended flops from the last generation. One such game that springs to mind is Resident Evil Outbreak.
Visually stunning from the very beginning, El Shaddai, scheduled for August 16 release, is a game that appears to have innovation and imagination. From the moment you start the game, the vibrant colors and unique design immediately grabs your attention.
Nerdlesque is a bi-monthly burlesque review with a different nerd culture theme each time around. Last month they did a comic book motif, and this time it was video games. Yes, this means exactly what you hope it does: Attractive women dressed up like video game characters, who then strip out of their costumes. A winner is you!
The third game in Microsoft’s Summer of Xbox Arcade promotion is Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. In it you’ll control a flying saucer that must make its way through a hostile world filled with insane, twisted and shadowy foes.
The definition for Cliffhanger is an adventure that ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment. This has been the case for many games that have left us hanging on the edge. It’s not rare for a game to have a cliffhanger at the end because it helps build momentum for the second or third installment. There are some games that have the potential for future sequels but never pan out because it didn’t sell well or had bad reviews.
Playwright John DeVore does not like video games. He dislikes them to such an extent that he’s written a one-man show about his lifelong grudge against them. It’s called Son Of Pong, and is playing this month as part of the Game Play Theater Festival in New York City.
