by Andrew Yoon, Jun 05, 2011 12:30pm PDT
Given Blu-ray's massive capacity, and PS3's ability to play both disc-based games and movies, it's odd that not many more movies have offered the option to play a game and watch a movie on a single disc. Most recently, Blu-ray discs for Battle LA included a sneak preview of Resistance 3. Midway's Stranglehold added the movie Hard Boiled to special editions of the game.
505 Games is adding two more to the shortlist of hybrid game and movie discs. According to Joystiq, both Top Gun and Days of Thunder will get new releases on June 7th that include the movie and PlayStation Network game. Amazon lists both games for $29.99, which is actually more expensive than buying the movie and game separately. (The Blu-ray goes for about $16.99, while the games currently cost $9.99 each.) Still, the novelty warrants some sort of premium, right?
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by Xav de Matos, Aug 12, 2010 1:00am PDT
Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.
Today's Daily Filter features the "launch" trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, a dev diary with an insane amount of hoodies for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, a "combo" trailer for the upcoming downloadable title Shank, a trailer featuring the upcoming DLC "The Golems of Amgarrak" for Dragon Age: Origins, a video for Naughty Bear announcing upcoming (and free) DLC, and additional videos for Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, the newest EverQuest 2 expansion Destiny of Velious, the PSN-exclusive Top Gun and Tales of Cosmos. Read more »
by Chris Faylor, May 20, 2010 8:00pm PDT
Hopefully you're ready to take the highway to the danger zone, as a downloadable video game inspired by Top Gun is coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Mac this summer.
Coming from South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! and Burn Zombie Burn developer doublesix, the Paramount-published action game is said to pack "large-scale dogfight battles," sixteen-person multiplayer, and a story by film scribe Jack Epps Jr. Read more »
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