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E3 2008: Majesco E3 Lineup

Tim Grube — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:47:46 -0500

Majesco is the latest company to unveil their E3 2008 lineup schedule for July 15-17. Check out the list below:

AWAY Shuffle Dungeon
Babysitting Mania
Cooking Mama World Kitchen
Major Minor's Majestic March
Marker Man Adventures
Our House
Wonder World Amusement Park
Zoo Hospital

Majesco is at booths #421 and 423.

Tired of Paying For Microsoft Points You Don't Need? Get Used To It

Akshay Masand — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:12:49 -0600

Have you ever purchased a bundle of Microsoft Points so you can get something you want only to find out that you have an obscure number of points leftover? It has been a common thing for a while on the Marketplace and even more so recently thanks to DLC from games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3. With the newly released single song downloads for the following games, many of the users find themselves having an odd number of points leftover and then having to purchase another bundle of points for future purchases.

The aggravation had risen to the point where 1up editor Patrick Klepek decided to speak to a product manager Aaron Greenberg about the issue. Greenberg mentioned that the reason Microsoft does this is because they don't want to "burden" the consumers with the publishers, themselves, or transaction fees. He mentioned that they bundle the points to keep infrastructure costs down even though it is frustrating at times.

Regardless of whether we like it or not, we're stuck with these bundled Microsoft Points as Greenberg had mentioned that there is no future plan to change this process. We're going to have to put up with the issue unless for some odd reason you don't want any DLC, Xbox Live Arcade Games, or anything else the Xbox Live Marketplace has to offer.

Mark Walhberg IS Max Payne

Aaron Dunlap — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:51:12 -0600

Remember back in 2001 when Max Payne came out and you said, "Man, they should make a movie out of this!" but they never did. Apparently, they were waiting for the game to come tired, old news that very few remember.

"It was that game with the bullet time and melodramatic dialog and not much else, right?"

Right. Well, they're finally making a movie about it. Mark Wahlberg's playing Max, John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix [Remake],The Omen [Remake]) is directing.

I'm assuming pre-production can't start until the writers' strike is over.

Since the only thing that made Max Payne relevant was its then-new, now-overdone use of bullet-time, and since bullet-time in movies is officially a cliche now, will the only thing this movie has going for it be a Vice cop whining on and on about his dead family and seeking bloody, bloody revenge by taking down a gang? Because we already had that movie. Vin Diesel was in it. It was called A Man Apart. It was bad.

New Warhammer: Mark of Chaos Screens

Shiva Stella — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:45:00 -0500

This article was originally published on Gaming Horizon, GameBump's predecessor. Certain formatting, imaged, and embedded content may have been lost in the transition process.

Namco Bandai has unveiled several new screenshots and artwork for Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, currently being developed by Black Hole Games for the PC. Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is a real-time strategy title boasting "epic battles, terrifying creatures, massive battalions, and beautifully rendered backgrounds" that will fuel the player's desire to master warfare in the slaughtering of foes.In Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, the focus is set squarely on the battlefield with a real-time combat system that gives the player unprecedented customization and control of his/her army. Warhammer: Mark of Chaos centers on the armies and battles, while de-emphasizing the tedious aspects of base and resource management. This heroic quest reveals a grand sense of both scale and detail, in which monstrous demons and vast customizable armies clash with thousands of characters in intricately detailed environments. Buildable features and destructible terrains such as forests, swamps, plains and tundra change the shape of the battlefield and add a layer of strategy to provide players infinite replayability.Check out the media below. Mark of Chaos should hit store shelves this fall.