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Steam News · Feb 24
The time is upon us! The time to once again become radical, as from the ashes of developers Radical Entertainment and Hothead Games a sort of but not really new studio has been born: New Radical Games. It does seem like Hothead drew the short straw here name wise. But given that Radical were known for the likes of The Simpsons: Hit & Run and the Prototype games, and Hothead made, uh, The Baconing,...
Steam News · May 4, 2014
The Activision Publisher Weekend continues today with great deals on Activision titles! From now through Monday* pick up titles up to 75% off! Today's Daily Deal features the Prototype franchise at 75% off! Additionally, play the Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer for Free throughout the weekend! *All discounts end Monday, March 17th at 10AM Pacific Time.
Steam News · Jul 31, 2012
Why spend $15 on a box-less copy of The Legend of Zelda for the original Nintendo Entertainment system when you can spend $150,000 on a mustard yellow NES cartridge adorned with a faded label with the game's name typed on it? It's collectible craziness available right now on eBay. Now I can understand paying a pretty penny for the factory sealed and graded copy of The Legend of Zelda for the NES,...
Steam News · Jun 28, 2012
Radical Entertainment, the twenty-year-old game studio behind games like Prototype and Scarface, has shut its doors. Audio designer Rob Bridgett, formerly of the Vancouver-based studio, confirmed the news on Twitter today. In addition to the Prototype series, Radical also worked on games like goofy open-world title The Simpsons Hit & Run and the old educational title Mario is Missing!. Radical wa...
Steam News · Jun 28, 2012
Radical Entertainment, the twenty-year-old game studio behind games like Prototype and Scarface, has shut its doors. Audio designer Rob Bridgett, formerly of the Vancouver-based studio, confirmed the news on Twitter today. Update: When reached for comment, Radical parent company Activision sent Kotaku the following statement: Although we made a substantial investment in the Prototype IP, it did n...
Steam News · Jun 25, 2012
There's a movie coming out next year called The Prototype. It stars a "man" in a hoodie who is on the run, being hunted for his extraordinary powers. Combine the plot with the name and you'd be forgiven for assuming it's a movie about Activision's Prototype series. But it's not. The Prototype the movie is about a military robot that escapes containment, and has to defend itself while on the run, a...
Steam News · Jun 14, 2012
Some of us play games without worying about how much they cost. Others, like commenter Sol, want to make sure they're getting a fair amount of entertaiment for their money. How do you measure the value of a video game? Is there any way you guys quantify whether you get your money's worth on a purchase? Or is it a gut feeling? I've heard people talk about the "dollar per hour" way of telling wheth...
Steam News · May 19, 2012
Yesterday night, the world of TV comedy got a bit of a drama injection when news broke that Community showrunner Dan Harmon had been fired by Sony pictures Television. Harmon had had a prickly relationship with his network overlords since the first season of the show, and will be replaced with David Guarascio and Moses Port, writers of the ABC series Happy Endings. This morning, Harmon weighed in ...
Steam News · May 17, 2012
Multi-national releases are a difficult process. Not only are there linguistic and cultural barriers to overcome, but very often content or simple monetary reasons can keep a game from entering one country or another. Even so, some games are desired despite their limited availability no matter where you are. That being said, here are the top ten Xbox 360 games in Japan that were never released in...
Steam News · Apr 30, 2012
Is there anything worse than killing a child? It's one of the most reprehensible things a person can do. Not just in real life: Along with Golden Retrievericide, child-murder is one of the most double-secret-ultrabad things a character can do in a movie, book or video game. The murder of a child can be an incredibly potent moment in a story. But it can also be a hacky, cringe-inducing grasp at un...