April 21st, 2006 may not be as memorable as the date which preceeds it,
but I will certainly remember it as the day on which I spent the best
six dollars on a matinee, ever. Thats right, I’m talking Silent Hill
baby. While I feel the marketing was a little too aggressive, and many
of the scenes used in the commercials were out of context, I have to
say that it was well worth my time and money to have gone and seen it.
While Konami wasn’t in direct control of the film, Akira Yamaoka composed the score and was one of the executive producers.
While the film does not directly derive from any specific game, it is
an exceptional expansion upon the existing Silent Hill framework,
supplying a new interpretation of what Silent Hill is to its fans. As
many may know, the Silent Hill series tends not to have much as far as
a contiguous storyline, but is more of a compilation of stories with
the haunting ville as a backdrop for horror. While a few of the latter
games try to ease away from this trend, I don’t see that it takes away
from the fun factor in any way, and this film was definately fun,
although I would suggest you take a friend if you’re a bit squeamish.
Check it out, yo!

source: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_(film) www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill

Major League Gaming and the television network USA
have inked a deal allowing USA to air 7 one hour episodes this fall,
featuring MLG’s professional circuit and its players, as well as
play-by-play commentary that one would normally associate with live
sports.
“This is the sign that pro
gaming has finally arrived to the mass market,” said Matthew Bromberg,
MLG’s president and chief operating officer. “It’s like Texas holdem poker was two
years ago, or NASCAR 15 years ago.” Convenience is one of the most obvious advantages of playing poker online.

This is the first time professional online gaming is getting a spotlight
on a medium which will be broadcast into the homes of millions, instead
of simply being available through the internet. While there have
been a few spotlights on games like UFABET สล็อตออนไลน์ยอดนิยมของไทย on various newscasts/children’s
networks, there wasn’t much of an acceptance for gaming as anything
more than sheer entertainment.

While I’m skeptical, especially as this seems to be a ploy to lure in
more corporate sponsership, this could be a good thing for
gaming. It may show the mass of American people that gaming is
more than just entertainment, that it is a viable career option in some
circles, as the X-Games did for pro-BMXing and skateboarding before.

source: FOXNews

Source PE Wiki

Nintendo has announced
this morning that in addition to games from Nintendo’s own previous
consoles, the Revolution will also sport games from the Sega Genesis as
well as the TurboGrafx 16.

Read more here.

The latest version of UnTank, the online tank battle game, has been released. Check out the changelog and download the update at http://www.untank.com/. A lot of optimisations have been made to improve both performance and appearance.

From SoulCalibur.com:

I’m sure by now many of you have heard the rumors from Japan and I’m
here to say most of them are correct. Granted, I can never keep up with
everything people say so it’s impossible to confirm everything.
Soul Calibur III: Arcade Edition is a re-tuned, re-vamped, and most
importantly, fixed version of Soul Calibur III. Naturally, all glitches
found in the console version have been fixed. In addition to that,
we’ve re-tuned the overall balance of many moves and re-vamped Amy,
Hwang and Li Long as official characters. All three have been revised
into more unique move sets and help to expand the already expansive
Soul Calibur III line-up.

We expect Soul Calibur III: Arcade Edition to release within six weeks. Stay tuned for more information.

As seen on Google Video, Will Wright talks about the upcoming game ‘Spore’ at the Game Developer’s Conference. While a good amount of the narration is about the technical side of it (these “Procedural Verbs” sound interesting) it also gives a good look at the game itself, showing how you start from a microcellular organism and evolve into a species, and spread out across your continent, planet, solar system, and even galaxy. While an exact release date hasn’t been given, speculation puts it at around Fall 2006.

With help from Eon_Blue, the UnTank website is now up and running, along with a new release of the engine. Check the site and the update out at http://untank.lggaming.com.

There’s an interview with Uwe Boll over at Eurogamer. I can honestly
say I agree with some of the things he says, like how people should SEE
his movies before JUDGING them, but that doesn’t change the fact that
he makes complete crap 90% of the time. He talks about his movies
before before House of the Dead, how “video game movies are
hard to sell to production companies”, and probably most interesting:
about his upcoming POSTAL movie…

“”I’m in the movie – Uwe Boll will play a minor part. I get killed by my
‘Boll haters’,” he explains. So will he be getting real, er, Boll
haters to play themselves?”

Can you say selling point?
All in all it’s an interesting read, to say the least. Sue me, but I from what I read this Postal movie even sounds somewhat worth watching. Granted, it’s still gonna be an Uwe Boll movie, and it’ll still likely be LAUGHABLY BAD, it DOES have a few things going for it:

A) Gary Coleman
B) Uwe Boll Dying
C) Osama Bin Laden

I’m willing to see it based on those 3 things alone. Granted,
I’m not gonna pay for it, but to be fair I haven’t payed for a movie in
over 2 years because I have friends at movie theaters. Oh well, that’s
just my take on the whole thing.

PS: Thanks for Ace-Of-War, and his thread on OCR, for pointing this one out.

Holy mackerel ! Finally what alot of us have been waiting for..

From 1up.com:

Hot on the heels of the Kingdom Hearts II voice cast, which was announced just last week, comes the first peek at the English-language voice cast of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, which has been delayed repeatedly due to some last minute signings, most notably that of American Beauty jailbait, Mena Suvari, who was brought on to perform the voice of Aerith Gainsborough in not only Kingdom Hearts II, but also to reprise the role in Advent Children.