Tag archive: rumors [ 3 ]

REPLY TO ALL: Console Speculation as Fact

02/07/2012
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by Horrible JDevL in: Cursed Activities, News

Enough of your 6 times the power statistics: Why does our industry (video game journalism) deem it necessary to wrongly speculate on future consoles? Want in on the weekly conversation? Every Wednesday we pose a question on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. You can answer from Wednesdays through Mondays on Twitter with the hashtag = #RE2ALL, and in our weekly thread on Facebook.com and Google+ posted every Wednesday. Check out this week’s responses at the end of the post, and add to it [...]

DVR Patent Acquisition Pointing to Next Xbox Functionality?

I’ll go ahead and get this off my chest up front: I hate baseless speculation on what the new consoles are going to be like. I hate speculation on what they’re going to look like even more (beacuse, really? Who cares?) On the other hand, I love speculation based on some decent evidence, particularly when it jives with what you’re seeing console maker A or B doing, so here’s some speculation based on a patent Microsoft was just awarded by the USPTO [...]

Rampage: The Movie Looking for a Script

11/21/2011
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by Justin Lacey in: Headlines, News

New Line Cinema is currently seeking writers for a movie script based on the classic monster video game based on classic monster movies, Rampage. John Rickard of Final Destination and A Nightmare on Elm Street fame (?) is looking to produce the film and rumors have been comparing the flick to a Ghostbusters or Independence Day scale of a movie. “A smartly-budgeted monster movie” is how The Hollywood Reporter describes it. Kidding aside, who couldn’t go for a monster movie [...]