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• NYCC 2009 - Ghostbusters Wii

  All New York Comic-Con weekend, there was sure to be a huge crowd at the back half of Atari's booth. What was causing all of the hubbub, distracting from Ready 2 Rumble Revolution, The Chronicles of Riddick and the nearby masseuse? Ghostbusters: The Video Game, of course! All three current-gen console SKUs were up and on display, along with the crystal Slimer seen at right and, of course, dudes in jumpsuits and proton packs. Graphical polish aside, the PS3 and XBox 360 builds looked just about the same as when we saw them last May (though the 360 version seemed to be flaunting more bloom lighting), so of course I was most interested in the Wii version. Come on, you know you've wanted Ghostbusters on Wii ever since you first saw Elebits! In my mind, Wii is the only platform worth making a Ghostbusters game on (though PS3 gets a pass as Sony owns the rights to the films). I was fortunate enough to chat with developer Red Fly Studios' James Clarendon, a programmer and designer on Ghostbusters for Wii, as he played through the ever-popular New York Public Library level for me. Atari are still keeping a relatively tight grip on in-game footage, which relieved James as he told me repeatedly that the game as he last saw it two days before the Con looked "totally different" from the demo, which used the game's build from December. Read More... Posted Feb 17 2009, 03:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: derrick sanskrit, wii, Ghostbusters, atari, nycc, red fly, mushroom men

• NYCC 2009 - Comic Authors Love Video Games!

  Have you ever felt awkward going to a party-like event filled with people from your old job? Will they remember you? Will they harbor negative feelings for your leaving? Will you just cling to the wall drinking punch all night hoping nobody sees you? This is something I worried about going into New York Comic-Con, as I am no longer a member of "team comics" the way I had so actively advocated for years. I was there to look at video games, encircled by the comic book professionals I'd surrounded myself with for years. My fears were for naught, of course, as the majority of the professionals and press I ran into over the weekend both remembered and embraced me. I even asked six of my favorite comic creators, all of whom I knew to be avid gamers, to take part in the following video. They were asked three simple questions: What are you playing now? What are your favorite "classic" games? What is your all-time favorite power-up? The answers ranged from the expected to the somewhat hilarious. Please, watch and enjoy: Read More... Posted Feb 13 2009, 02:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with no comments Filed under: whatcha playing, derrick sanskrit, comics, nycc

• NYCC 2009 - Sega <3s Wii

  The Wii was big at New York Comic-Con. While I didn't actually keep count, it seemed like there were more Wii controllers set up at game booths than any other type of controller. Nowhere was this more apparent than at Sega, who always had a huge crowd, put on quite the show, and had exactly four games on display, all of which are Wii-exclusive. Here now is our exclusive developer commentary video, featuing Denny Chu for House of the Dead: Overkill, Eric Nofsinger for The Conduit, and Elvin Gee for Sonic & the Black Knight: Read More... Posted Feb 12 2009, 01:30 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with no comments Filed under: derrick sanskrit, wii, madworld, the conduit, sega, sonic and the black knight, house of the dead overkill, nycc

• NYCC 2009 - A Brief Overview of Games

  Without a doubt, video games were big at New York Comic Con 2009. Some publishers booths were small (Square-Enix, who only had figurines to show/sell, Aksys Games, Sony Online Entertainment), others challenged the massive booths of Marvel and DC (Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Activision), but all around there was a lot to see and play and ask quesitons about. While we've got more in-depth coverage to follow, here's just a quick sample of some of what we got to see and play. If we were athletes instead of game journalists, this would totally be a training montage. Nonetheless, hit the jump for a video and a long list of quick game impressions! Read More... Posted Feb 10 2009, 03:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: derrick sanskrit, madworld, Ghostbusters, the conduit, wolverine, dynasty warriors, dc universe, kororinpa, prototype, sonic and the black knight, deadly creatures, x-blades, blazblue, guilty gear, bit.trip, beat, house of the dead overkill, dragonball: evolution, nycc, overlord, grand theft auto chinatown wars, the godfather 2, bomberman, gundam, velvet assassin, splatterhouse, battlefield 1943 pacific, roogoo, jumpgate evolution, naruto, damnation, wrestlemania, invincible tiger

• NYCC 2009 - DC Universe Online

  Editor's note: I'm still pretty darn worn out from the frenetic pace of New York Comic-Con this past weekend. My entire body hurts. Expect a good amount of post-con reporting over the next few days as I sift through my notes, photos, and edit together a few videos which will hopefully be fairly rad. For now, though, let's just start off with something easy, the first massively multiplayer online game to officially license characters and scenarios from one of the biggest pop-culture publishers in the world...oh lord, what am I doing? One of the biggest crowd-pleaser games at New York Comic-Con was Sony Online Entertainment's DC Universe Online. The massively multiplayer online action title was set up for anyone to play using either keyboard and mouse or or the Playstation DualShock3 and there was a panel discussion about the game featuring several members of Sony's design team along with human-style-guide Jim Lee and story and scenario writers Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman. Those names should sound very familiar to you if you're read any superhero comics in the past twenty years or so. That they referred to it as an MMO action game rather than an MMO RPG is very telling in what we saw from the presentation and our play sessions. It plays just like all the other open-world action brawlers, only you're playing with other people to either cooperate or compete in objectives which are continuously sent to you from the game's servers (cleverly disguised in Hero mode as Oracle from Batman and Justice League). Run, jump, smash, repeat, no arcane spell casting. Read More... Posted Feb 09 2009, 03:00 PM by Derrick Sanskrit with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: playstation 3, derrick sanskrit, dc universe, mmo, sony online, dc comics, nycc