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Posts from category "Gaming"

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TDK Gives Gamers The Power of Grayskull

October 29, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Game publisher TDK Mediactive Inc. announced that Masters of the Universe He-Man: Power of Grayskull has shipped for the Game Boy Advance handheld system. The game is only one element of a major re-launch of the He-Man brand. Introduced 20 years ago with Filmation’s popular animated series, the sword-wielding, musclebound, [...]

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3ds max locked in Mortal Combat

October 24, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

In creating the animated in-game cinematic opener for the upcoming Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Midway employed Discreet’s 3ds max 5 to execute realistic 3D images and martial arts sequences. Working on a tight production schedule, the small animation team from the Midway Full Motion Video (FMV) department was charged with [...]

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Russia To Go Postal

October 21, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

The maniac mail carrier known as the Postal Dude is taking his rage to Red Square. Video game developer Running With Scissors announced that its title Postal 2 will be published in Russia by Akella. Akella, one of Russia’s most established producers of video games will work together with Running [...]

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Golf, Goofy Style

October 16, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Electronic Arts and Disney Interactive hope to hit a hole in one with Disney Golf, now available for PlayStation2. Developed by T&E Soft, Disney Golf features six 3D courses including landscapes as diverse as the American West, a plush island paradise and a resort in the clouds. In addition to [...]

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Ring Ships On Game Boy Advance And Xbox

October 3, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Black Label Games, a studio of the games division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, has shipped The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for Xbox and GameBoy Advance. Based on the first installment in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings literary saga and the new feature film [...]

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Action Girl Takes On GameBoy

October 2, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Disney Interactive is shipping Disney’s Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist for GameBoy Advance Nov. 8. Based on the hugely successful animated comedy series airing on Disney Channel and ABC Kids, the game features characters Ron Stoppable, Wade, Rufus the Naked Mole Rat, Dr. Drakken and Monkey Fist. Using a [...]

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Spy vs. Spy To Sneak Onto Game Consoles

October 1, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

They’re not 007, but TDK Mediactive Inc. is hoping Black Spy and White Spy can infiltrate the video game market just as well. The global publisher of interactive entertainment software has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with E.C. Publications Inc., the publishers of MAD Magazine, to bring the popular [...]

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Run Like Hell With Interplay

September 30, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Interplay Entertainment Corp. has unleashed the sci-fi survival-horror game Run Like Hell on PlayStation2. The story-driven, third person actioner boasts state-of-the-art 3D environments, cinematic camera work and voice acting by film and television veterans. Gamers take on the role of Nick Connor, an exiled military hero sent to work on [...]

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Ex-Scream Gaming

September 18, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

In conjunction with the home video release of Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc., THQ Inc. announced the availability of Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena, exclusively for Nintendo GameCube. Having discovered the power of laughter, Mike, Sully and the other inhabitants of Monstropolis compete to fill their laugh canisters in unique dodge ball-style games. [...]

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Nintendo Revolutionizes Trading Cards

September 16, 2002 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

In the past, if you wanted to add functionality to your trading cards, you could stick them in the spokes of your bicycle to get a great tick-tick-tick sound as you rode. Now Nintendo is giving card traders something more high tech to do with their acquisitions. The new e-Reader [...]

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