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Gamertell Review: Grease: The Official Game for Nintendo Wii
Fans of Grease who are looking for familiar faces aren’t going to find them here. The songs are all newly recorded versions, and the animated characters look nothing like the Sandy, Danny and Eugene you’ve come to know and love. You’ve got to be a fan of the music, not the movie, to get into this game, because beyond the familiarity of the songs, there’s not much here to really make it all that fun.
Gamertell Interview: Yuking it up with RiffTrax trio Nelson, Murphy and Corbett
You know those jerks who talk over movies in the theater and you want to pelt them in the head with a frozen beverage? Well, Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame have made a career doing this and have zero head concussions (they’ll admit to).
The boys started a group known as RiffTrax where they take modern movies including Jurassic Park, Twilight and a google of others, making jokes – or “riffs” – during the movie. RiffTrax will be doing a live show Aug 19, 2010, featuring the 1938 cult classic, educational anti-marihuana film Reefer Madness.
Gamertell recently spoke with the three masterminds behind RiffTrax who had a lot to saw about their craft…
Sony Home Update: Major Home overhaul coming September 2009
Recently announced during Gamescon 2009 in Cologne, Germany, and confirmed on the Sony PlayStation blogs, Sony Home will have a major overhaul with the release of version 1.3 in September 2009 with tons of updates and much welcomed additions to make the experience more fun.
WTF: Dance Dance Revolution: The Musical with “barely-clothed young actors and buckets of free beer”
An interesting report from GameCulture informs us that the next adaptation of video games in the mainstream will be through – gasp – musicals.
Wait, do musicals count as “mainstream?”
The point is somebody has taken the liberty to bring a the idea of video games to the stage, though it’s probably not the game you would expect it be (sorry fanboys of alien shooters and twisted plots involving Metal Gear). The game chosen is Konami’s rhythm game, Dance Dance Revolution.
Click through to find out the plot…
Film producer Adrian Askarieh discusses videogame-to-film adaptations
While releases for upcoming videogames just keep getting better, the list of movie titles based on videogames keep growing. Soon, Hitman, starring Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, will join the list of live-action films based on a videogame. “I don’t go after video games because they are video games,” Adrian Askarieh, producer of the Hitman more »
