This week began with news that Sam Raimi, director of the Spider-Man and Evil Dead trilogies, was in talks to resurrect film hero Jack Ryan. The marine-turned-CIA-analyst-turned-reluctant-hero was played by Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October (1988) and Harrison Ford in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). In 2002, an […]

At the beginning of 2007, Midway Games CEO David Zucker painted If Its Games a rosy portrait of the publisher’s upcoming calendar year. He lauded a number of projects that were slated to come to fruition, including Wheelman, Touchmaster DS, and Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament III.

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In November, SouthPeak and Reality Pump confirmed retail listings that an extension to its action role-playing game Two Worlds was in the pipe. At that time, however, Two Worlds: The Temptation was billed merely as an expansion to the original Xbox 360 and PC title, with Reality Pump promising a bevy of new story points, […]

As one of the most lucrative franchises in gaming, Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise has acted as a lightning rod for litigation and lawsuits. Last week alone, the popular rhythm game inspired two suits, one involving former Guitar Hero developers Harmonix and the other concerning content licensor Gibson Guitar Inc. While the former was settled as […]

Way back in 2006, Sega and Marvel Entertainment revealed that they were collaborating on a tie-in for the forthcoming film Iron Man, based on one of the latter’s comics. Besides giving the game plenty of development time, Sega has announced it is taking another step to make sure the multiplatform game doesn’t join the notoriously […]