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  • Kanye West To Release New Video Game Inspired By His Late Mother

    Kanye West is known as one of the biggest names in music today. He has also dabbled in stuff outside his profitable music career, including conquering the fashion world. West recently revealed that he will be adding to his checklist for world domination: he will be making a video game. In a guest appearance at Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club radio show, West talked at length about the new material he’s working on as well as his collaboration with Adidas. Towards the end of the interview, West revealed some details about the video game inspired by his mother.

    “Right now I’m working on a video game for ‘Only One’, and the idea is that it’s my mother going through the gates of heaven and you have to bring her to the highest gates of heaven by holding her to the light,” West said. “We’ve been working on it for like six months.” “Only One” is the name of the single he made with Paul McCartney, and is a tribute to West’s mom who passed away due to complications attributed to a plastic surgery operation.

    West has yet to reveal more details about the game. It’s currently unknown if he’s developing it with a studio or when it will be released. It’s also unknown which platform the game is being released for. If it becomes a mobile game he will be facing off against his wife, Kim Kardashian, whose Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game proved to be a massive success. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood was estimated to have generated as much as $200 million last year through in-app purchases.

    In the same interview, West also talked about his plans of making a documentary about the controversial minister Louis Farrakhan. “Right now, I’m working on a documentary with him, about him and about his music. He’s a classically trained violinist, and he’s also one of the most humane people,” West said.

  • Dying Light System Requirements, Season Pass Revealed

    Dying Light will continue the time honored zombie game tradition in 2015. Unlike other zombie games, however, Dying Light will mix some first-person parkour platforming into the mix. The game will hit PS4, Xbox One and PC, but how powerful of a PC will you need to play it.

    Techland revealed the PC system requirements for Dying Light this past week. Fortunately, the requirements aren’t that taxing especially when compared to other cross platform games released this year. Without further ado, here’s the system requirements:

    Minimum requirements:
    OS: Windows® 7 64-bit / Windows® 8 64-bit / Windows® 8.1 64-bit
    Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz
    Memory: 4 GB RAM DDR3
    Hard Drive: 40 GB available space
    Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)
    Direct X®: Version 11
    Sound: DirectX® compatible

    Recommended requirements:
    OS: Windows® 7 64-bit / Windows® 8 64-bit / Windows® 8.1 64-bit
    Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K @3.4 GHz / AMD FX-8350 @4.0 GHz
    Memory: 8 GB RAM DDR3
    Hard Drive: 40 GB available space
    Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
    Direct X: Version 11
    Sound: DirectX® compatible

    If you meet the recommended requirements, you’re going to have a pretty good looking game. If you only meet the minimum requirements, you’re still going to have a great time. I played games with a GTX 560 for a few years, and games looked great even on medium settings. If you must have the ultimate in visual fidelity, you might want to check out the PS4 or Xbox One versions if the PC requirements are too steep for you.

    As for the Season Pass, Dying Light will charge the now standard $20 for a number of DLC packs that are to be offered throughout the life of the game. The first DLC pack – Cuisine and Cargo – will challenge players to sneak through buildings that were sealed off at the start of the zombie apocalypse. The second DLC pack – the Ultimate Survivor Bundle – will give players three new outfits and four weapon blueprints. The final DLC pack – the Bozak Horde – will introduce an area where players can take down hordes of zombies by themselves or with a friend.

    To top it all off, Techland shared a new trailer for Dying Light at Friday night’s Game Awards:

  • Madden NFL 15: Ray Rice Has Been Removed from Game

    The hits just keep coming for former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. Following the Ravens terminating his contract and receiving an indefinite suspension from the NFL, Rice has now been booted from Madden NFL 15.

    The Ray Rice hoopla started just a week ago when TMZ released footage of the elevator altercation involving Rice and his then fiancee Janay Palmer (the couple is now married). The incident occurred last February, and Rice originally received only a two-game suspension from the Ravens. After the video of Rice punching out Palmer was released, both the Ravens and the league decided further action was warranted, which led to the contract termination and league suspension.

    Rice can now add being removed from a video game to his list of problems. “With Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension from the NFL, he will be removed from Madden NFL 15,” an EA Sports informed GameSpot last week. “This roster change will take place by this Friday.”

    The change has already went into effect; several Twitter users have confirmed that Rice is no longer available.

    EA isn’t the only company parting ways with Ray Rice; Nike and jump training program VertiMax no longer want anything to do with him. “After internal discussion about the events that transpired, we determined that a future relationship with Ray did not align with our goals as a company,” VertiMax CEO Michael Wehrell said.

    Madden NFL 15 Tops August Video Game Sales

    In other Madden NFL 15 news, according to NPD Group, the game was the top selling video game in August 2014. “Madden NFL 15 was the number one game this month with consumers adopting eighth generation software over seventh generation, leading to growth over last August’s Madden NFL 25–a trend which will hopefully become widespread and lead to software growth as we move towards the holidays,” said NPD Group’s Liam Callahan.

    If you haven’t purchased Madden NFL 15 yet, check out the game trailer below.

  • Mario Bros. Actor Danny Wells Dies At Age 72

    Danny Wells, who was famous for playing Luigi on the television adaptation of the popular video game franchise, has died. Super Mario Bros. is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, and with Mario as a staple of the Nintendo games, it was enough to give the video game its own television show, which does not happen often.

    The character actor who was famous for playing Luigi died at the age of 72 in Toronto, Canada on November 28th, 2013. Danny Wells, whose real name was Jack Westelman, was a native of Montreal.

    The Montreal Gazette released his obituary online, and even allows for people to sign a guestbook online, sending a message to the late actor.

    He also played the recurring character of Charlie The Bartender on The Jeffersons. Danny Wells appeared as the green Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which started in 1989, and lasted for 65 episodes. He was seen in the live-action parts of the show, and also voiced the character for the animated portions.

    His co-star on the show, who played Mario, Lou Albano, died in 2009 at the age of 76. The show featured the same story from the video game franchise, which centers on Mario and Luigi as they travel to different lands trying to save the different worlds from the evil Bowser, and meet up with Princess Peach along the way.

    Danny Wells made his on-screen debut in Love, American Style, and later appeared in many other films and television shows as a character actor including such hits as Magnolia, Sanford And Son, and The A-Team.

    Fans of the show, and those that were fortunate enough to have worked with him will all mourn the loss of Danny Wells, a man who was not recognized as others were, but clearly had an extensive career that is worth noting. The Mario Bros. actor will be forever remembered as one of the key character actors of his generation.

    Image via Youtube

  • Waiting In Line 3D, The Worst Video Game Ever?

    Can’t wait to get your hands on the latest videogame? Do you like shooters like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D? Why not try Waiting in Line 3D, a first-person punching game about a man waiting outside in a queue. There are no enemies in the game, but in the long wait of what’s to be anticipated, the player must stay awake by punching themselves in the face. Punch yourself too often, and you’ll die – too little, and you’ll ultimately fall asleep. The goal is to stay awake.

    The game’s style is similar to that of Wolfenstein 3D, Road Rash, and other 90’s games that took heavily pixelated pictures of real world settings and overlaid them to create a virtual reality. You’ll notice that the level design looks similar to early PlayStation games.

    The game is made by Rajeev Basu, an interactive artist from London, known for having humor being “a big part of” his “work.”  He’s made such pieces like a brash set of “greeting” cards that were rejected from various card publishing companies, as well as a concept album called EEP EEP EEP EP, which is composed entirely with alarms. Appropriately, Basu copyrights his game circa 1991.

    Basu told Wire.co.uk that it’s an “anti-game”, which means it “deliberately undermines the very idea of what a game is meant to be”.

    Basu teamed up with Alex Anderson (AKA ManCub), a musician based in Denver Colorado who incorporated his first single, “Friends Listen” in the game. Anderson’s tracks match the echoic distant sound and feel of the 90’s – a kind of new age and experimental music style that sounds like a more upbeat version of Moby’s early work combined with Jesus Jones. Basu said that he and Anderson “shared a similar kind of thinking,” adding that both of them liked “creating things that are a bit ‘off’ and messing with people.”

    “The game isn’t interesting, exciting or fun.”

    “I think we succeeded.”

    And yet, despite the game being so mundane, there have been “tens of thousands” of internet users playing Waiting in Line 3D with a total of 48 hours. While most players only last for a couple minutes, one player managed to stand in line for 27 minutes.

    Go and give it a shot at WaitingInLine3D.com.

    (Pictures via Rajeev Basu, WaitingInLine3D.com)

     

  • Lindsay Lohan to Sue GTA V Makers for Using Her Likeness in Game

    According to TMZ, Lindsay Lohan is suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto V for using her likeness in the game. TMZ says that their sources tell them Lohan is expecting “serious money” from Rockstar for using her likeness in the game. Neither Lohan nor Rockstar have commented on the situation so far.

    Fans of GTA V have been scrambling to figure out exactly which character Lohan believes Rockstar modeled after her. So far, two characters with a similar likeness or background have been mentioned. The first character is featured on the cover of the game (see below) and the other character is a celebrity that has problems with her parents and the paparazzi. Considering the latter character is minor, it’s probably safe to assume Lohan’s lawsuit is referring to the cover character based on her compensation expectations.

    Check out the photos below of the character in GTA V that looks most like Lohan and then an image of Lohan. Do you think the character is clearly based on Lohan? Respond below.

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    One thing that may very well kill Lohan’s chances for any compensation from Rockstar–assuming TMZ’s sources pan out–is the fact that another woman says that she was inspiration for the character in the photo above. According to NowGamer, model Shelby Welinder said that she was hired to model for the game.

    “I worked for R* and signed a release that said I’d be listed in the game credits,” Welinder said. Welinder also shared an image of an invoice that proves Rockstar Games paid her. See a video Welinder posted to her Vine account to see which woman you think most resembles the GTA V character in question.

    Welinder has mentioned Lohan’s alleged lawsuit on Twitter and seems amused that Lohan could possibly think her likeness was used.

    After looking at some other Twitter comments regarding the Lindsay Lohan/GTA V issue, it appears that other people are quite amused (and confused) by the lawsuit as well.

    [Images via YouTube]

  • The Walking Dead Video Game: Behind the Scenes & Screenshots

    What started out as a blip on the zombie-dar with The Walking Dead #1, has now turned into a comic book powerhouse, which in turn has spawned one of the most watched shows on television. Now, the series will be receiving the video game treatment by way of Telltale Games.

    We’ve known about the video game adaptation for awhile now, but have had no details to go along with it. This changed when Telltale released their first episode of “Playing Dead“, an episodic behind-the-scenes series diving deeper into The Walking Dead game. You can watch the first episode below.

    (Skip to 5:20 if you want to hear about how Robert Kirkman hated Mario Sunshine)

    To coincide with their video, they released three brand-spanking new screenshots today, giving us our first look at the game’s art style. Looking pretty good.

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    The Walking Dead video game

    The Walking Dead video game

    The Walking Dead video game

    As a huge fan of The Walking Dead comic series and a fan of Telltale Games, who were the developers for Sam & Max and Back to the Future: The Game, I’m extremely excited about this. If you played Back to the Future: The Game, you know this company has a knack for telling engaging stories based on known properties and respecting beloved characters. It was one of my favorite games of 2011. Based upon their work, I have high hopes for The Walking Dead game.

    While I think the story and characters will be fantastic, I’m a bit skeptical how the studio will handle the inclusion of zombies. Telltale’s point-and-click adventure style games have never really featured urgency and horror-like elements before. I’m trying to wrap my head around how they’ll handle the idea of having to stay away from zombies, and the action based elements that practice includes. Will any of the gameplay involve killing zombies, while trying not to get bit? Or will they reserve all of the action for cutscenes?

    Hopefully we’ll find out soon enough.

  • Madden Super Bowl Simulation Has The New York Giants Winning

    The New York Giants and the New England Patriots hook up this Sunday in Super Bowl 46, and to pass the time until Sunday, there are many pre-Super Bowl activities one can enjoy. Whether it getting your prop bets together or planning on the big party, it’s not all sitting and waiting for the kick off.

    One pastime that takes advantage of our love of tech (and video games) is the official Madden Super Bowl simulation, where the current Super Bowl match up is played out on EA’s mega-successful Madden video game. This year’s simulation is good news, provided you are a New York Giants fan. According to the sim, the Giants will defeat the Patriots, 27-24, with Eli Manning (pictured above) winning the Super Bowl MVP trophy for the following stats: 25-39 for 342 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

    The video of the simulation:


    As of this article being posted, there are only 305 views of the video. Apparently, however, the majority of them were Patriots fans, at least judging by the amount of dislikes. There are already 78 such interactions, with 33 of them being thumbing the result down.

    As for the accuracy of these simulations, Yahoo Sports has some information:

    The Madden simulation missed last year when it predicted a 24-20 victory for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Two years before, it missed hitting the exact final score of the Steelers-Arizona Cardinals game by one point on each side.

    It sounds like a “close, but no cigar” type of outcome, something that should give nervous New England fans a sense of relief.

    Since this article is essentially talking about Super Bowl predictions, what are yours? Giants or Patriots? Let us know what you think.

  • Star Trek Online Has People Tweeting In Klingon

    Twitter…the final frontier. These are the voyages of game-maker Atari. Its 2-month mission: to explore strange new social networks, to seek out new geeks and new game players, to boldly go where no ad campaign has gone before!

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    If you’re a Trekkie, you’re probably already well aware of the pending February 2nd launch of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) "Star Trek Online." Well, according to ClickZ, its creator, Atari Inc., has decided to reach those that don’t quite go as far as greeting each other with "Live Long and Prosper," by launching a number of social media initiatives to promote the game.

    YouTube, Facebook, and secret access codes on game sites, have all been part of Atari’s marketing efforts, but my favorite has to be its Twitter strategy:

    For Twitter, the New York-based company has created a microsite-app combo, dubbed "Tweet in Klingon," that allows viewers to type English phrases and have them tweeted in fictional Klingon language.

    And you thought Foursquare updates were annoying. Wait ’til people realize they can start tweeting in Klingon. Better yet, they start updating their Foursquare status in Klingon. Race ya to become the Mayor of Adigeon Prime! :-P

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