Visceral Ripping into new I.P

Today I came across an interesting little rumor that Visceral Games is planing on releasing a new game over the Xbox Live and Playstation network.

This time they've stepped out of middle age poetry and into 18th century serial killing.

In particular, you get to run around the streets of London as none other than Jack the Ripper him self.

But in Visceral's new I.P. aptly titled The Ripper, Jack doesn't rip into dirty little Victorian prostitutes. Instead he is prowling the night, hot on the heels of vampires, demons and other creepy things that go bump in the night.

Decked out in cool period weaponry as well as some things he put together him self, Jack kills shizz to keep London's streets safe.

Would it be morbid to say that I'm some what of a fan of Jack the Ripper?

It's not like I go around collecting clippings of serial killers and shizz. I just find this one guy kind of frightening and intriguing. Regardless of actual events, the myth of him with the top hat and black carriage... killing and disappearing into the night has long been the fascination of many story tellers. Though this is not the first time old Jack's been given the game make over, I like the angle that Visceral is going for here.

But as it is it's still just a rumor, but I am really looking forward to seeing what comes of it. I just love the shizz Visceral comes up with. This could be a little gem to "kill time" with until we get our hands on their up coming Dead Space 2.

There's a bit of news about the whole thing over at Destructoid that you can read here. As well as some more info from another post on here.

Should 'infected' be considered zombies?

Inspired by a debate I've been working on

Zune zombie advert

Zombies dancing and biting people....watch it and be entertained.


Zune: Piece of Me, Piece of You

Attack of the paper zombies!

When I'm not messing around on the 360 or in front of the DVD player, I like to fish around online for games that I can play for free :P

But not just any free game.

Before I divulge my time into anything, I'd like to make sure it be worth while. I've "press enter to start" on say many games, only to quit while swearing at having wasted my time.

But one game that had me hooked from the moment I started playing was a little number called Attack of the paper zombies.

O my goad they're everywhere!@#

Paper Zombies is a real time stratergy game, where you control the fate of a group marines as they tackle a zombie horde invading from outer space. The graphics though very simple, are unique and effective. The game play too is very intriguing, and a lot more developed than you might expect.

The members of your marines have varying abilities, and you also have access to such things as gun turrets, flame throwers, snipers and even teleporters. Aside from the usual creeping zombies, you have more sinister ones, and even full hives that create waves of undead, that you need to dispatch of before they get out of hand.

I actually spent a great deal of time on this one. Depending on your skill level with RTS games, this may take a little work getting used to. I actually had to do the tutorials before I could move on.

This would be a good way to kill some time if you're sitting around aimless either at home, or even at the office.

You can find out a little bit more about the game here, as well as get your hands on a download of the game.

have fun :D

Dead Space 2 Offical interview

The crew from Visceral games take the time out to say a few words on their up coming squeal to my favorite game of all time. All I can ask is PLEASE don't f*ck it up.



As a huge fan of the first game, I just really want an extension of the things that I loved about it. I'd be happy with the same mechanics from the first game, but a whole new world/ area to explore and play through. Kinda like the old Resident Evil games, that kept the core game play pretty much the same for all the installments, but gave you new environments with little game play tweaks here and there.

Another thing I'd like to see is maybe more survivors to interact with or play along side. It would be so cool to fight and hack you're way to some dark, desolate corner to find some guy holding out against the impending doom that is the Necromorphs. It just adds a certain human aspect to the game, especially when you watch said person die horribly because of some stupid mistake you make.

I understand that being on you're own adds a deep sense of dread and despair, but it would be interesting none the less.

Like at some point in Doom3 (My second favorite game of all time) you find this one doctor, who guides you through a few dark levels with his lantern.

"Wanna go on an adventure?"

The area is crawling with demons hiding all over the place, ready to pounce on you and devour your soul, bitch thing is that you can't have your torch out at the same time as you gun.

So you find your self with a twitching trigger finger, huddling close to this guy; cause if you loose him...you're f*cked.

Basically I just hope they don't mess with Dead Space's original formula too much. I've already ranted about this in an earlier post which you can find here, so I'll take a breather now.

There's a Q & A session with Steve Papoutsis who is the executive producer on Dead Space 2 that can be seen here.