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Real men have an actual box for their Netflix PS3 disc

This has to be the collector in me saying this, but whenever I or someone I know misplaces a game box (usually the latter), forcing me to forever hold onto a loose disc, it drives me up the walls...
Huge surprise: Silent Hill 2 movie sounds pretty sketchy

The Silent Hill movie tends to pop up on occasion when discussions about good videogame movies happen. The only problem with that is, when compared to everything else in the medium, even the best...
Brad Pitt x Capcom to unleash Dark Void film franchise

Capcom has just announced that it's come to terms with Plan B Entertainment on the rights to a film based on its upcoming game, Dark Void. Plan B Entertainment apparently being Brad Pitt's own pr...
Gearbox had the opportunity to make a Blade Runner game

If you ever wondered what a Blade Runner videogame could look like in today's gaming landscape, the above CryEngine 2 mock-up should be sufficient. According to a recent report from OXM, Gearbox ...
Avatar: The Movie: The Game guided Navi campaign vid hits

I won’t pretend to know what James Cameron’s Avatar is all about. If you pay close attention, you'll notice that the movie’s title has neither the words “Terminator&rdquo...
Jill Valentine may be in Resident Evil: Afterlife

Milla Jovovich has been Twittering her heart out while working on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Yesterday, Milla teased the possible return of Jill Valentine in the new movie by Tweeting, "Valen...
Don't get rid of your PS3 Netflix disc anytime soon

While the knowledge that those Netflix Instant Watch discs for streaming movies on PlayStation 3 aren't permanent isn't new, the notion that the disc-less embedded application won't be out until ...
Tekken movie sales art shows off the color blue

Despite my other job being that of a film critic I have been paying little to no attention to the upcoming Tekken film set to be released in 2010 at some point. I could make up a plethora of excu...
Prince of Persia film trailer, now in high quality!

A few days ago, I posted a pretty scummy-looking trailer of the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Timefilm. By scummy-looking I mean the quality of the video, not the qualit...
These blurry Tekken movie set photos are kinda LOL

Destructoid community member GuitarAtomik just pointed out this "unofficial" Tekken movie MySpace page, and I'll be honest -- I haven't stopped laughing since I clicked the link.  The page h...
This sounds necessary: A videogame based on The Host 2

A videogame adaptation of The Host would have turned out pretty bad, I imagine, but there's no way it could (theoretically) top the upcoming first-person shooter based upon The Host 2. Now I know...
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie trailer impressions

On Tuesday, I traveled out to Jerry Bruckheimer Productions in Santa Monica to check out the trailer for the upcoming Prince of Persia film adaptation. In case you haven't been keeping up with it...
Review: JU-ON: The Grudge

It's almost Halloween, and if you're anything like me, you're going to try to make the most of it. Playing survival horror games can be one way of doing that, but the way the genre has evolved (o...
Required discs for Netflix PS3 streaming are temporary

Last night's announcement of PlayStation 3 gaining Netflix streaming functionality in November was a big one, and even though it seemed inevitable, I still found myself a bit surprised. As someon...
Netflix Instant Watch coming to PS3 in November

Color this PS3 owner surprised: after more than 11 months of Xbox 360 exclusivity, Netflix will be making its way to the PlayStation 3 next month. We’ve heard this rumor many times before, ...
Pet Sematary becomes an iPhone game, hilarity ensues

In what is surely the biggest WTF moment of the day, Paramount Digital Entertainment decided adapting Pet Sematary into an iPhone game was a smart move. I'm still trying to figure out whether to ...
Bruce Willis to star in Kane & Lynch movie

It's generally accepted that Kane & Lynch would make a much better movie than it would a videogame, so perhaps Bruce Willis hasn't signed his death warrant by agreeing to star in a film versi...
PC version of Saw will only be distributed digitally

Sorry, but ever since I saw this ancient video, I've never been able to look at Jigsaw's little puppet guy with a straight face. This screenshot from the Saw videogame is not an exception.Those c...
Press Start, the videogame comedy movie, sequel announced

Back in 2007, an epic fan movie called Press Start was released. While most videogame movies are complete garbage, Press Start was the one exception to the rule. The movie made fun of those typic...
Play the computer game seen in the movie Big

The 1989 film Big, in which a child wishes himself into becoming a grown-up, is probably something you're familiar with. One of the interesting elements of the movie is a graphical text-based adv...
This is how you pitch Prince of Persia to Disney

In 2003, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner had a sit-down meeting with Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney executives. The goal, to sell them on the idea of a Prince of Persia film. Mechner e...
Resident Evil: Afterlife brings the undead to Los Angeles

Well, there's another Resident Evil movie in the works, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's called Resident Evil: Afterlife, and they're making it like, right now or something.&n...
Eliza Dushku talks about a potential WET movie

Eliza Dushku sat down with MTV News to discuss important celebrity things and got to talking about her recent role as Rubi in A2M's WET. The actress teases about a potential "live-action Du...
Student film Turbo now online for your viewing pleasure

Turbo is a low budget student film set around a futuristic fighting game called Super Turbo Arena … or modern day fighting game thanks to Natal. We brought up Turbo back when it was first ...
World of Warcraft movie speculation is intriguing

But is it intriguing enough to convince everyone to give another videogame-based movie a chance? Uh ... I'll let you be the judge of that. My general viewpoint tends to be that of expecting the a...
SAG, AFTRA and the games industry agree on new contracts

Remember when all the writers went on strike? It sucked. Television seasons were cut short and my television stopped being fun when I wasn't playing videogames. What if that happened to videogame...
Oh God: Behind the scenes of The King of Fighters movie

As you may of heard, The King of Fighters is being turned into a movie. As you can see in this trailer, this has like nothing to do with the game.Seriously, what the f**k is going on? Maggie Q is...
Ben Heck makes Halo 3 controller for Tucker Max movie

It's funny how you often meet people on the Internet through unusual and fleeting circumstances.  For example, weeks ago I'd heard that they were making a Tucker Max movie so I checked out t...
An animated Spore movie is finally happening

For once, we are getting a videogame-based movie that actually makes a lot of sense. As reported by Variety, Fox has acquired the rights from EA to produce a Spore movie, and while few specifics ...
Production begins on Resident Evil: Afterlife

Production on the fourth Resident Evil movie has started in Toronto, Canada. We’ve heard some details about the plot, in regards to it being set in Los Angeles at a prison, but what we didn...
Silent Hill 2 screenwriter sentenced to a year in jail

...for messing with my favorite videogame series. Kidding. That was actually in bad taste, and here's why. Screenwriter Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) is sitting in the slammer for causing a traffic ...
Do-do-do-don't make another Chipmunks sequel, please

The screenshots in the gallery below exist for one purpose and one purpose alone: To give me justification for ranting about the existence of a sequel to the 2007 cinematic re-imagining, Alvin an...
Metal Gear Solid fan movie looks pretty good

I say looks pretty good because I haven’t watched Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy yet. This fan made movie is 70 minutes long and I’m feeling way too A.D.D. to focus on one thing at th...
Uncharted 2 demoed on the big screen

There's a simple rule in gaming; the bigger the screen, the better the experience. A 22" television is easily trumped by a 46" television and so on until you arrive at playing videogame...
Oh God: New Resident Evil movie plot revealed

Actor Boris Kodjoe, starring in Surrogates which opens soon, has revealed some plot details on Resident Evil: Afterlife. He’s set to star in the movie along with Milla Jovovich, Prison Brea...
Where the Wild Things Are trailer is suspiciously decent

So with much hesitation I must say that this trailer for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's Where The Wild Thinsg Are: The Video Game looks pretty good. Now, that's suspicious because, as w...
Flashy Avatar dev diary builds hype like whoa

During E3, James Cameron came out on stage at Ubisoft's press conference to talk about one of my most anticipated films of the year, Avatar, and the game tied into it. He then spent 30 minutes pu...
Lost Planet film story not based on Lost Planet games

Most (okay, all) videogame to film adaptations are only loosely based on their source, and it sounds like the previously announced Lost Planet film will follow suit. "[There] probably [...
Silent Hill movie sequel is officially official

As far as videogame movies go, Silent Hill wasn't really that bad. In fact, for the thirst forty-five minutes, it was actually pretty fun, and if you allowed yourself to ignore the niggling issue...
Disney producer lets Tron Legacy game slip

In a recent interview with The Latino Review Disney producer Steven Lisberger let some news drop about Tron Legacy geting its own videogame. Latino Review went straight into their discussion, whi...
PS3s working as part-time cinema projectors in Japan

The PS3 is a gaming device, a Blu-ray player, a supercomputer ... and now a cinema projector? That's right, a number of PlayStation 3 systems have been spotted playing movies in Japanese cinemas,...
Rebellion could be working on new Judge Dredd title

In a recent interview with bit-tech.net, Rebellion's Head of Art and Design Tim Jones hinted strongly at the possibility of a new Judd Dredd videogame. "Well, there is the announcement ...
Mario Kart: The Movie

Brilliant. Brilliant, I say. While you all are watching Hollywood trash like that District 69 and that Julie & Julia & Julio or whatever, I'm saving my movie money for Mario Kart: The Mov...
The Warriors Street Brawl looks appropriately named

I just bought The Warriors on Blu-Ray last week, so this trailer for the upcoming beat-em-up caught my eye. The Warriors: Street Brawl is supposedly coming to the download services in September a...
BioShock movie getting 28 Weeks Later director?

With Gore Verbinski stepping down as director for the sadly inevitable BioShock movie (though hanging on as producer), there's an opening for a new man to steer the project forward. Universal Stu...
GC 09: Namco raises Clash of the Titans from its grave

Apparently, there's a remake of Clash of the Titans slated for next year. Yep, Liam Neeson is even going to play Zeus. Who knew? There's also a videogame adaptation of said remake that was being ...
Marvel: We're not doing crappy movie games anymore

The law of videogame physics states that a game based on the movie will suck. When the movie is based on a comic book, the game will suck even harder. It'll suck the weeping, milky vagina of Sata...
Podtoid 111, aka Double Dragontoid, is tonight

Once again, the Podtoid crew will record a running commentary for a videogame movie. In case the man with the goddamned insane hairstyle didn't already clue you in, this week's flick is Double Dr...
Rumortoid: Steven Spielberg wants to produce Halo movie

IESB is reporting that Steven Spielberg is in negotiations to develop a Halo movie. Spielberg was "blown away” by Stuart Beattie’s script for the Halo movie, which is based on th...
Just Cause movie is happening just 'cause

As reported by Variety, the rights to make a film out of Just Cause have been acquired from Eidos by Adrian Askarieh, who is currently working on producing a Kane & Lynch movie as well. You m...
MMO documentary, Second Skin, available on Hulu

Second Skin is a documentary about MMO players. It lacks the pyrotechnics of a Michael Moore probe, but it isn’t a stale watch. The subjects of Second Skin are a fascinating group of uber-d...
Asteroids radio drama is likely better than the film will be

Remember when Universal bought the rights to produce a film based on Asteroids? Oh, how we laughed. Then we got some insight into what the plot would be. And we laughed some more. Little did I re...
Myst book becoming a movie? Looks like it

Seems like there's been this Myst resurgence lately (or at least, someone's trying to start one). I'll admit I bought the wretched DS version even though I should have known better, and I bought ...
inFAMOUS movie is happening, Sheldon Turner is writing it

You really can't have enough videogame movies, so it's terrific to hear that PS3 exclusive inFAMOUS is heading to the big screen. Hollywood screenwriter Sheldon Turner is the pen behind this vent...
Dead Space film in the works, had better be gory

According to a Variety report, Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso is set to the direct an motion picture based on Visceral Games' Dead Space. The production of the film is in its very early stages; t...
SDCC: The Rock won't be in Gears

Lot's of gaming movie news coming out thanks to panels at SDCC this year. Is it important? Of course! The proper choosing of actors for Gears of War for instance could make or break the film. A c...
Lionsgate says world wide Wii movie channel soon

So Lionsgate Films, the guys behind the Saw series and a ton of other movies, want and believe that the Wii will have a movie channel world wide and soon. Speaking to Casualgaming.biz Lionsgate&r...
SDCC: Would be Halo movie director ain't coming back

If I had to choose one word to describe the whole Halo movie debacle it would be drama. The movie has been killed and brought back more times than Freddy Kruger. As of right now the movie has bee...
No GTA for the big screen

With the amount of comic books, movies and other random spin-offs coming out of videogames these days, it has almost become odd for a major game not to be franchised out into a billion other ente...
SDCC: Sigourney Weaver involved with Avatar: The Game

Don't those two look completely wrapped up and interested in what they're watching? Wait, what are they watching. Oh, right, it's James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. How silly of me to forget.If yo...


 
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