Penny Arcade has already had some fun ripping away at Army of Two, now it’s Yahtzee’s turn.

As always with Zero Punctuation Reviews: R15 language (not work friendly).

Yahtzee hates taking requests (as you’ll hear from watching this review), but it would seem that he can be swayed into doing something when thousand of people continue to pester him about it. And so, Here it is, the much requested review of Call of Duty 4.

Warning: The language in this review is R15 (not work friendly).

Source: Joystiq

Variety reports that last spring a Grand Theft Auto movie was almost ready to roll into full production. The story goes that after years of trying, some studio actually navigated the bureaucracy of Take-Two/Rockstar and was ready to start production — “quite possibly” with Eminem as the star. The reason this even came to be after so many years of stonewalling by GTA’s rights holders is that current Take-Two chair, Strauss Zelnick, comes from traditional media at BMG music and 20th Century Fox.

Variety goes on to say that the movie was so close to being finalized that its own reporters were prepping stories, with sources at Take-Two saying it was a done deal. At the last moment though, the whole thing fell allegedly apart after the publisher couldn’t finalize terms with the studio. Whether it was an issue about money or giving away the movie rights (Rockstar is very protective of its brand) is still an unanswered question.

All I can say is: Thank you God!

Can you imagine a how badly a GTA movie would suck? And with Eminem as the lead?!

Some of you may be excited, others may be outraged, some may even be scared. Either way, filming for the new *game turned movie* Max Payne is set to start on March 2 in Toronto.

The movie features Mark Wahlberg (who I personally think suits the role), and is directed by John Moore, whose recent projects include Behind Enemy Lines and Flight of the Phoenix.

While the track record for game based movies has been pretty extremely horrible, I’m going to reserve judgment until I’ve seen a bit more. I’ve always thought Max Payne would make a kick ass movie – though, that was many years ago, before every other game was murdered on the big screen.

Source: IGN

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare pwned up in 2007. They sold over 7 million copies over all platforms worldwide to take the title of 2007s Best Seller.

“We’re very excited about this achievement especially given so many competitive titles this year,” said Will Kassoy, senior vice president, global brand management, Activision Publishing, Inc. “Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry.”

While Call of Duty 4 did get beaten in the U.S by Halo Jesus and Wii Play, over-all it kicked ass.

Source: Kotaku

I went to have a look at the Off-Road Velociraptor Safari website today to see if it had been released yet. Unfortunately, no, it hasn’t, but I did see this great open letter from the Developers. It would seem some people we upset by the Trailer – but perhaps not in a “cruelty to animals” way.

I especially love the Fun Facts at the end ^.^

Friends and family, colleagues and customers,

Regarding the controversy surrounding the recently released trailer for our upcoming interactive entertainment experience, “Off-Road Velociraptor Safari” (ORVS), we at Flashbang Studios wish to disseminate the following statement. It may appear we have contradicted the established understanding of what exactly a Velociraptor looks like, particularly with regard to the presence of feathers. This has caused some confusion among viewers of the trailer, who may be more familiar with depictions of Velociraptors found in film and popular media. However, current scientific consensus indicates that Velociraptor mongoliensis, and indeed likely all dromaeosaurids, possessed feathers similar to those of modern birds. Paleontologists A.H. Turner, P.J. Makovicky, and M.A. Norell recently addressed feathers in V. mongoliensis in an article published in the journal Science:

“We present direct evidence of feathers in Velociraptor mongoliensis based on the presence of quill knobs on the posterior forearm. In many living birds, raised knobs along the caudal margin of the ulna reveal where the quills of the secondary feathers are anchored to the bone by follicular ligaments. Quill knobs are variably present in extant bird species and are present in only a few basal taxa such as Ichthyornis, so their absence does not necessarily indicate a lack of feathers. Their presence, however, is a direct indicator of feathers of modern aspect (e.g., feathers composed of a rachis and vanes formed by barbs).” [1]

We at Flashbang Studios officially support these remarkable findings by including magnificently feathered Velociraptors in our game. Also, in the spirit of supporting science, we have performed our own independent research on Velociraptor mongoliensis. We present an overview of our findings in the following list:

* Raptor Fun Fact #21 – If you tie a bow around a raptor’s neck, it might cause Christmas. Spontaneously.
* Raptor Fun Fact #12 – The raptor’s natural prey are soft human babies, which are made out of meat.
* Raptor Fun Fact #73 – The raptor’s natural enemy is the gas-powered internal combustion off-road vehicle, which is made of mean.
* Raptor Fun Fact #42 – A raptor skin wallet is three times as practical as a ham wallet.
* Raptor Fun Fact #53 – Raptors live in a world where pants have no meaning.
* Raptor Fun Fact #66 – The Raptor word for love is “SCREEECH!”

All of the above is true; we did the work in our lab*. So in summation, science has our back. Take that, Internet!

Love,
Flashbang

*imagination

[1] Turner, A.H.; Makovicky, P.J.; and Norell, M.A. (2007). “Feather quill knobs in the dinosaur Velociraptor”. Science 317 (5845): 1721.

I had actually heard a lot of really good things about The Witcher, so I was a little surprised that Yahtzee had such a bad first impression… Perhaps I’ll have to downlo..err.. buy it and find out for myself.

Warning: The language used in this review is not work friendly (R15).

Yahtzee doesn’t hate Crysis?

I can’t really comment on Crysis, at all. As I haven’t played the full version of it. It’s probably something I should do…

You may remember Johnny Chung Lee from a couple of months ago, when I posted about the VR displays he was creating with a Wii Remote.

If you enjoyed that stuff, then you should definitely read this interview that Game Informer had with him.

The dude is actually not the big Wii fanboy that you may think he is:

I do play video games and I like video games, but I was much more excited about the capabilities of the controller than I was the Wii game console itself. It’s amazingly impressive that Nintendo just allowed the ability to connect it to a computer over Bluetooth, which I think has been great for both the hobby community as well as the research community.

Source: Kotaku