Shenmue, the legendary franchise that earned SEGA both a grand cult following and extraordinary fnancial losses, will unsurprisingly not be closed out by the aforementioned SEGA. Instead, the successful Kickstarter game has been picked up by Deep Silver, another move by the company who is starting to seem a little desperate for the love and affection of gamers. The company, which has...
I’ve long since accepted that my childhood in the 80s and early 1990s was basically a series of advertisements disguised as cartoons. I even fondly remember quite a few commercials from that time, whether for fruit snacks and popsicles, board games, or action figures. Few advertisements, though, were as iconic as the Micro Machines advertisements featuring John “Motormouth” Moschitta Jr...
The neverending story of Dead Island 2‘s development still continues despite over a year of silence on any progress. Deep Silver is finally talking after all this time, and it promises that progress is being made on the game. Speaking with Eurogamer, Deep Silver assured fans that the game was still in development at Sumo Digital. Dead Island 2 is in development at Sumo Digital, and...
While I was checking out Agents of Mayhem from Volition, I got to wondering, why are all of Volition’s games purple? With Agents of Mayhem, “It’s something we decided quite early on,” said Design Director Anoop Shekar. “Our brand has now become so identified through Saints Row that we thought it was a great way to leverage it for people to be able to recognize it and say ‘hey, that...
When I checked out Agents of Mayhem at E3 last year, I left intrigued but concerned. The game is solid, but at the time, I didn’t really feel like it stood out. Volition has a lot to live up to, both acknowledging the game as part of the Saints Row universe and establishing as a separate, memorable thing, instead of a spin-off of a bigger series. At a recent preview event hosted by...
While the Saints Row series is far from Volition’s only contribution to gaming (I’m a big fan of Red Faction: Guerrilla, myself), it’s certainly one of their biggest, and the series has shaped the direction of the studio for a long time. I played Agents of Mayhem for the first time at E3 last year, though my play session back then was far too short to get a strong sense of what I was...
The ever-going drama behind Deep Silver’s upcoming zombie shooter Dead Island 2 continues with the mysterious disappearance of its Steam page. As picked up by NeoGAF, the game simply isn’t there anymore and all relevant tags have since been removed as well. Naturally, given the behind-the-scenes circumstances, this led a good many fans to believe that the game has been canceled once...
If you pick up Dead Island Definitive Edition on disc, your experience is going to be slightly different depending on which platform you pick it up on. On the Xbox One, you’ll be able to install both games right off the disc – Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide‘s remastered editions are both there and ready to enjoy. If you buy it on PlayStation 4, though, you’ll get Dead Island on...
Everyone, and I mean everyone, has been hating on this latest Mighty No. 9 trailer, saying how ridiculous and offensive it is to the human brain. I entered it with the assumption that this hate erupted just because disappointing delays and under-performing graphics have made Keiji Inafune’s 2D throwback such an easy target over the last year. And then I watched the trailer, and I...
Dead Island 2 was all but buried when Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager Entertainment stepped away from the project, thanks to “respective visions” that “fell out of alignment.” However, like the majority population of a zombie apocalypse, Deep Silver’s Dead Island franchise just won’t keel over and die. The publisher has dug up the corpse of its all-but-forgotten sequel and has...