We found out last year that Neil Blomkamp is making a Gran Turismo movie, which was intriguingly billed not as a videogame movie, but a movie about a videogame. Now the first official teaser is here, and I can say with confidence that yes, it is definitely a movie about a videogame.
Gran Turismo tells the (surely heavily fictionalized) tale of Jann Mardenborough, who in 2011 earned the top spot in GT Academy, a reality television partnership between Sony and Nissan that ran 2008-2016. As that year’s winner, he was given the opportunity to drive for Nissan at the Dubai 24 Hour endurance race. He finished third in his class, which ultimately launched him into a real-life racing career that continues to this day.
The Gran Turismo teaser has everything you’d expect from an “unde…
Read moreTitle card: The Grand Theft Auto 6 Sunscreen Mystery. Fade in: Interior. A detective’s office. Shutters keep the glow of street lamps at bay. A lone figure paces around the room, kicking away cans of empty aerosol sunscreen that spill from an overflowing trash bin. They mutter to themself as they light up a cigarette. On a corkboard we see a map of Miami beach broadwalk, and a diagram charting the course of the Atlantic Coast sun. They’re close. They can taste it.
This is what I can only assume took place at the residence of Reddit user ficerc, who has written an investigation into the exact SPF factor being used in a short, two-second clip from Grand Theft Auto 6’s recent trailer by a throwaway NPC with zero relevance to the story. Aha, a throwaway joke, you might think—you…
Read moreA game called The Hidden and Unknown released on Steam this week with an absurd $1,999.90 price tag. The twist is that the self-published game is purposefully shorter than two hours, which means it can be finished without exceeding Steam’s playtime limit for no-questions-asked refunds. If you don’t have two grand to temporarily blow on this game, though, don’t worry: I’ve played it, and you’re not missing anything.
The Hidden and Unknown’s creator goes by ThePro, and earlier this week told TheGamer that the high price reflects the semi-autobiographical visual novel’s value to them. They encouraged anyone who can’t afford the game to refund it or just refrain from buying it.
“I do not wish to get any people into financial trouble,” ThePro said. “I just price my game as …
Read moreUbisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the publisher is looking to release new Assassin’s Creed games “more regularly” in the future, and remakes of older games will be among them.
Ubisoft has famously struggled with remakes. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake (which is no longer officially dubbed a remake) has been floating in limbo for four years and still doesn’t seem to be anywhere near completion. The Splinter Cell remake, meanwhile, has seen even less daylight. It was announced in 2021 and, well, that’s it: Hopes that an update of some sort would be made during the Ubisoft Forward showcase earlier this month were dashed when absolutely no mention of it was made.
Still, it seems like Ubisoft isn’t giving up on going back to its deep well of older games. “Players ca…
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