Luke Guttridge of Play.tm writes: Huddling on a sofa, at a screening room in London's West End,I'm interviewing Craig Allen, CEO of Spark Unlimited, who has just given us a demonstration of mythically-inspired FPS Legendary in action (a preview of which has now been published).
Q:Is the PS3 as challenging as some developers have hinted?
A: Well the PS3 is certainly challenging, I don't think anyone is going to argue with that, as most new game systems are. The real challenge, whichever format, is moving from one system to the other. Its like the standard gauge versus the metric gauge. Its a car... the wrenches don't work on the nuts and bolts of one car as they do on another. So it makes it more challenging. So, we've stayed close to what can be 'cross-platform' at a core level. And a lot of the work is optimising textures so we can have the visual expression.
Q: Will they be added as downloadable content perhaps?
A: We haven't really talked about post-launch. It makes sense to assume we want to support the game after this launch, certainly.
Q: Via the PSN and Xbox Live?
A: Absolutely.
In this special 'Sadistic Santa' edition of the Black Panel Podcast, the team discusses the horrid presents they have received for Xmas, including Farming Simulator, Duke Nukem Forever and Legendary.
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In honor of Thanksgiving and real turkeys everywhere that have laid down their lives in the service of your belly, here is a small collection of PC gaming 'turkeys' we've reviewed over the last year to avoid this holiday season.
Blair Herter announces the winner of G-Phoria '09 Game Most Deserving of a Uwe Boll Movie. Nominees include 'Golden Axe: Beast Rider', 'Castlevania Judgment', 'Legendary', 'Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayer' and 'X-Blades'.
NOTHING deserves a Uwe Boll movie. That guy is simply atrocious at everything he does. I can't believe how he can make a move so stupid, I'm not kidding I got sick after watching House of the Dead. It's like he actually wants to fail. A monkey with a camera and 10 bucks can make a better movie than this guy.
"Until the law was changed in 2005, Boll was able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor got a tax writeoff."
And in his own words, "Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."
He basically makes money even if its crap, which all of them have been.
I've already seen an Onechanbara movie. Made in Japan and campy as hell but I enjoyed it thou :)
I am a HUGE and I mean HUGE fan of anything having to do with Mythology, be it Greek or Roman.....from playing Herc's Adventure to God of War, but based from the low temperature of Legendary: The box's previous stories.....and relatively un-enthused gamers attitudes towards this title, I can see it Failing Greatly...
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..... "The JOEY has Spoken"