The Phantom To Return!

The Sci-Fi channel has given the go ahead on a four hour movie adaptation of the comic book hero The Phantom, with plans to turn it into a fully fledged TV series should the audience for the four hour movie be large enough. If my memory serves, the last time The Phantom hit our screens was when the awful Billy Zane donned the purple suit. Here’s hoping Billy has nothing to do with this one… Tweet This Post

Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Dated!

Microsoft have confirmed that the Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC will be released on Xbox Live on April 21. The pack is set to include a new survival mode which sees players try to survive against a never ending wave of infected for as long as possible. Also included are the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns in Versus mode. This is going to be awesome! Tweet This Post

Max Payne 3 Out This Year!

Take-Two have announced that Max Payne 3 will be released for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this winter. I didn’t even know it was in development, anyway… Rockstar Vancouver have promised us that Max Payne 3 will have “more of the classic elements and hyper-intense action that fans have come to love. We are moving the story of Max in a new direction”. Sam Houser, Rockstar Games founder, went on to say, “We’re starting a new chapter of Max’s life with this game. This is Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of…

Remake Alert! The Birds!

Writer Juliet Snowden has been talking about the upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic; The Birds. She had this to say… “With something like The Birds, you can take the concept of birds gone crazy and put that onto a myriad of situations. Whereas with some remakes, we really felt that those were movies that we really couldn’t think of new scenes or ideas. Some of these remakes are already perfect movies. We’re not saying The Birds isn’t a perfect movie – but when we heard about that we had, instantly, a lot of ideas about what we could do and how we would change it.” I actually like the idea of remaking The Birds,…

New Console Alert! Onlive!

Waner Bros. is among the financial backers of a new video game console called Onlive. The new console will be unveiled today at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco and is the brainchild of WebTV founder Steve Perlman. Perlman describes Onlive as a revolutionary, on demand gaming platform that will deliver the most advanced games on any TV via an inexpensive Microconsole and will also be available on almost any PC or Mac. “You just click on it and it goes.” The console will launch this winter. We’ll have more details after the press conference later today. Tweet This Post