Hey, how would you like to play Drive as a Sega Genesis game? Man, so would I! Unfortunately, that is not yet a possibility. But at least now we can get the gist of what that might look and sound like thanks to John Fraser. He's put together an intro screen for such a game, complete with a chiptune version of College's "Real Hero" and flashing "PRESS START" graphic to forever taunt us with how this isn't a real thing we can play. It really should be, though. The jump-on-the-enemies'-heads mechanic is already built in!
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Due to Lego's continued insistence on not teaching kids to use their growing assembly knowledge to construct a meth lab, we will almost certainly never see Breaking Bad join the Lego family of spin-off video games. But thanks to animator Brian Anderson, now you can see what such a hypothetical game would look like with this amazing video that Anderson calls a "parody" but is really just "this is exactly what that would be, no other answers acceptable."
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Denying their reviled Hitman the quick, merciful death we all assumed it had been quietly dealt for its offenses, Fox has decided to instead give the video game movie another chance, because they are in no way professionals.
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CollegeHumor continues their series of blog-beloved television adapted for 16-bit cartridges with Homeland: RPG, what is surely the best Mandy Patinkin video game ever created. And yes, that includes Mandy Patinkin's Rapier Challenge: Prepare to Die Edition and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim Over XBox Live.
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Do you like retro video games? Do you like prolonged period melodrama between the ruling and servile classes of World War I-era England? Well, what a treat for you then: here's a video roughly simulating the surely-boring game that would have resulted had Downton Abbey aired during Super Nintendo's heyday, when even Home Improvement somehow became a platformer. Sadly, it's not as expansive and nuanced as The Wire RPG or SNES Breaking Bad, so you'll just have to imagine your own pixelated intro from Laura Linney.
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In summer 2016, man shall come to truly understand his pointer finger's motivation for dragging around an iPhone screen.
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If Arrested Development glassware and Lego dioramas weren't nerdy enough for you, the discriminating Arrested Development nerd, why not give these a shot: Arrested Development Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges, featuring in-jokey titles like Mr. Bananagrabber, Stair Kart, D℞. Fünke's, and Chicken Dance Revolution. Buy all six individually or grouped at a discount at 72pins. Caution: game on label is not actual game on cartridge, as Steve Holt does not yet have his own shouted video game series. Power Hook sold separately.
Carts for Shaun of the Dead, Game of Thrones, and other nerdy things also available and pictured below.
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British screenwriter/director/playwright Jez Butterworth--who last wrote the biographic Naomi Watts thriller Fair Game, for which he won the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award--has now earned the honor of adapting the timeless man-against-nature tale of crude ship shooting crude rocks, Asteroids.
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How do you turn a car racing game into a feature film script? MURDER.
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He just took home his second Emmy, and now Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul will trade in that credibility for a part in a video game movie about driving cars.
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Following up on their Breaking Bad retro game, CollegeHumor has furthered their quest to bring serialized moral ambiguity to 16-bit role-playing with The Wire RPG. Equally hilarious and then depressing as you slowly realize you can't beat the system, even when it's an SNES.
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Though Sam Raimi is no longer involved in the project, Legendary Pictures just can't give up on World of Warcraft, hiring on K-Pax writer Charles Leavitt to work the game's fleeting, hollow feelings of accomplishment into a new script.
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Like the Resident Evil franchise, fellow video game-based series Silent Hill continues to, unchecked, expand and develop new, ambiguous subtitles to put in theaters. The newest is Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which--despite the possible implications of the "3" in "3D"--is just the second film in the series but draws its inspiration from the third game, which is actually more a proper sequel to the first game than the second game was. Okay? Anyway, the film now has a trailer, and according to the Silent Hill superfan I keep on retainer for just such nerdy occasions, it appears to show a surprising faithfulness to its source, right down to the details. So get excited, Silent Hill fans: all your favorite cutscenes have been re-created and improved by the addition of Malcolm McDowell.
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We've already proven that superhero movies and long-belated franchise entries can be improved with the involvement of Fassbender; now, time to find out if the same is true for the similarly-maligned video game genre.
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In Disney's animated Wreck-It Ralph, John C. Reilly-plus-CGI plays the eponymous character, a video game villain trying to reform himself by leaving the confines of his 8-bit game. Well, now you can play that video game--Fix-It Felix Jr.--on Disney's official site for the film. In the game, you play the title hero (voiced in the film by Jack McBrayer), ascending a building as you try to avoid falling bricks while attempting dubious building maintenance that involves swinging a hammer to fix broken windows. Just the kind of escapist fantasy modern gamers demand.
Uplifting proof that people on the internet do some of the best things when they aren't doing the very worst things.
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As introduced by a lead voice John C. Reilly, who's becoming increasingly indistinguishable from alter-ego Steve Brule, here's the trailer for Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's animated film about a retro arcade game villain attempting to reform himself as a hero by "game jumping"--which basically means the film is a fun little redemption story coated in layers of video game references for we familiar with button-pushing entertainment to enjoy. The licensing required for the above shot alone is staggering--Zangief, M. Bison, Dr. Robotnik, Kano, Bowser, a Pac-Man ghost and a Beholder are in a single scene!--so it's definitely worth checking out if you still have any idea what I'm talking about, you nerd.
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Still no sign of auteur Uwe Boll as DreamWorks and Sony line up directors for their respective video game properties.
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From AV Club and THR, here are some shots from the upcoming Community that will take the Greendale gang inside a video game. The impetus for the pixelated journey is said to involve Pierce fighting for his inheritance against Gilbert Lawson (Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito), but really it probably has more to do with the writers being geeks who like this stuff and know that their audience are also geeks who like this stuff. Have a look below, and adjust all #SixSeasonsAndAMovie tweets to reflect that a side-scroller would be pretty alright, too.
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This is like the ultimate instance of someone coming up with a funny idea while having some drunken, nostalgic conversation at a bar, and then shocking everyone by actually following through with said idea. In this case, the drunken conversation clearly involved singing along to '90s sitcom themes, and that funny idea was to actualize the theme to Perfect Strangers as a video game, and now that idea is real and currently "LOADING 3D," because it's so real that it's 3D.
Play it immediately. Only then will you truly understand the dream lyricist Jesse Frederick was alluding to standing tall on the wings of.
(Thanks, Angie & M.F.)
