Don’t forget to email us your questions, comments and reviews to info@polygamerous.com OR call in to our voicemail at 407-584-POLY (7659)
This week in Gaming
- Dragon Age Anime Due In 2011:Continuing the inexplicable trend of western games being adapted into anime (see also: Halo,Dante’s Inferno), BioWare and anime publisher Funimation have announced a deal to produce an anime movie based on the Dragon Age franchise. Production started last month, with an intended 2011 direct-to-video release. This will be the first release from Funimation’s new Original Entertainment department, started to do exactly this kind of thing: develop new anime based on existing IP. We do wonder about the strict definition of the term “anime,” though: if it’s produced by an American publisher and based on an American (Canadian, actually) game, is it still anime? Luckily, this is one of those distinctions that doesn’t matter at all. Regardless of the name, if you like Dragon Age, you’ll soon get to watch a cartoon about it.
- PBS to air 90 minute Video Games Live performance:If you’ve yet to experience the profound orchestral magic of the Tommy Tallarico-fronted musical outfit Video Games Live, you’ll soon have the opportunity to do so from the safety and comfort of your own home. The group recently announced it will perform a 90-minute special for PBS, which will debut July 31, and then air on various PBS affiliates across the country throughout August. We suggest contacting your local affiliate to find out if the special will come to your neck of the woods. If you’re planning on tuning in, you can check out the trailer posted after the jump to see what you’re in for, or read this press release to see what games the orchestra will be sampling during its performance. We don’t see Gitaroo Man on said list, but we’re hoping that’s just an unfortunate omission on behalf of the copywriter.
- LotR Online goes F2P this fall! In a surprising change of pace, is stopping its pay-to-play subscriber base and going free-to-play, much like Dungeons & Dragons Online.
- Hear ye, all ye Apple fanbois! The new iPhone 4 has been announced! It will come with not only the accelorometer, but a gyroscope as well. Also, it’s hi-res! (Approx, 78% higher resolution than the current iPhone.)
- You just can’t get away… Zynga founder Mark Pincus took the stage to announce a startling (albeit not entirely unexpected) technological development for the virtual agriculture industry: FarmVille is heading to iPhone at the end of June.
- Developers Say 3DS Graphics Rival PS3, Xbox 360
- Using “Call of Duty” to Solicit Naked Photos of Young Boys
- (shacknews) Guitar Hero for iPhone/iPod Touch:
- Extending its Rock Band rivalry to the iPhone and iPod touch, Activision today released Guitar Hero to the iTunes App Store. Developed by Guitar Hero Nintendo DS maker Vicarious Visions, the game is also compatible with, but not optimized for, iPad. Priced at $2.99, the 106MB download includes six tunes, with a number of additional ditties available in the form of $1.99 Song Packs, which include three songs each. Base Songs:
- Queen – “We Are The Champions”
- Rise Against – “Savior”
- The Rolling Stones – “Paint It Black”
- Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”
- Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So”
- The White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army”
- (Gamepro) Obsidian nabs Dungeon Siege 3 development under Square Enix
- One of the “secret” Square Enix E3 games isn’t secret anymore. The publisher announced a partnership with developer Obsidian this morning that kicks off with Dungeon Siege 3. Original developer Gas Powered Games isn’t completely out of the picture, though. According to the press release sent out this morning, Gas Powered headman Chris Taylor will serve as an advisor on Dungeon Siege 3′s development phase. It also sounds like Obsidian is maintaining the original action/role-playing gameplay, though they’re promising an “immersive world where every decision the player makes will result in consequences” and a co-op multiplayer mode. Dungeon Siege 3 doesn’t have a release date yet, but we know it’s got an E3 presence. Here’s hoping we have more to tell you next week.
Rumor Mill
- Grand Theft Auto 5 and Killzone 3 will support 3D gaming but will have a in game option to turn the 3D on and off.
- Hulu will be coming to the Xbox 360 with a subscription fee. The fee is to pay for the servers and bandwidth additions that Microsoft had to make for them.
- There will be a playable demo for the new Wii Legend of Zelda game and Link won’t be using a bow in this one. He’ll be using a cross bow. While many of you may not care much about the bow change, guarantied the fanboys are going to sh*t when they hear about this.
Question of the Week
What Video game “scared” you the most?
From Twitter
- Greyseer: System Shock 2, hands down. SHODAN is my favorite (and most feared) villain. No question…
- that_ghoul_ava: the Original Doom & System Shock 2.
- Samodean: I’d have to go with Dead Space. The use of sound and lighting effects was freaking terrifying.
- legacyofheroes: FEAR 2, the demo alone when it came out freaked me out with my 7.1 speakers lol
- Angelya+au: Under a Killing Moon scared the bejesus out of me when I was small
- wowinanhour: alien vs predator. I used to play it in the middle of the night with no lights on and headphones on. the alien scream …
- murlocwrangler: Clive Barker’s Undying, one of the few games that completely rattled me start to finish with it’s atmosphere & game play
- EshandKat: Doom. Not ‘scared’ so much as gave me freaaaaaaaaaky dreams.
- mrbryo: don’t play many scary games but I would say half life 2
- PartTimeDruid: System Shock 2, the only game to REALLY scare me. Those insane mutant dude sounds, man, I tell ya.
- lougagliardi: the original silent hill
- __Deadpool__: btw silent hill creeped me out, especially the movie! left 4 dead was pretty damn freaky also, like a fat guy in spandex…. Eeeeeeew
- LLanion: Daggerfall. Spiders cause paralysis in that, then eat you alive. They make a distinctive noise. I hear the noise, playing at 2AM…
- Krizzlybear: Imagine Babyz. THOSE ARE NOT BABIES. THEY ARE MONSTERS.
- thesyddiegrl: EQ scared me – to this day, I can’t believe I devoted so much time to it! Really taught me a good lesson.
- NinthBatter: Aquaman the game, scared me so much about the future of gaming I didn’t get a playstation 2
- Achloryn: The original silent hill.. Just the way some of those creatures moved was downright disturbing..
- glassofwater2: WoW when I first started.
From Forums
- Fisherman: This will make for good fodder. It was when I was a little kid, I loved the Ninja Turtles but Shredder scared the ever-loving sh*t out of me. So it was TMNT for the NES (which Farva and I are currently playing through for Buried Treasure, listen for our adult-analysis of it in Episode 2), when Shredder came on the TV unexpectedly. I swear, I put that game away for at least a few months after that happened. Almost scared my little kid-brain off gaming altogether.
- Lokela: Mine would have to be The Clock Tower Murders (or something like that) on the PS. You played as this chick who went around trying to solve a mystery. The bad guy was a some dude that went around killing people with giant shears. Any way, I made the mistake of starting it up on a night that I was home alone. Oh yeah, and I had all the lights off in the house. When the bad guy was around, the game would play some creepy music…and the BAM! He jumps out of f-ing nowhere! Lets just say that I changed my pants, turned the game off, and never played it again.
- Jitterbug: The first time a dead dog came leaping through the hallway window in the first Resident Evil game.
- Nipples: The first time I played Silent Hill… I was literally up all night and into the next morning… little did I notice that every one had left me to myself and took off to town to run some errands. I take a quick piss break from the game and notice that it looks eerily creepy this morning, dark/gray overcast and foggy as sh*t outside… After my piss break and a stop for some munchies I noticed that there was no one in the house anymore and that outside the window the fog off the lake rolled in super thick… right when I step outside to see if anyone’s car was there I noticed that there wasn’t a damn car on the entire block of what I could barely see… and that is right when the City of Hammond decided to do their weekly test of the Tornado/Air Raid sirens!!! I nearly crapped myself thinking that the damn game somehow f-ing merged into my world!!!
Follow Us on Twitter!
