Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 announced, will expand on those 8-bit Castlevania vibes
Developer Art/Play announced a sequel to their Castlevania tribute last night, which will have more whips, action and epic scope to marvel at.
Friday Debate – Are retro games overrated?
You might be shaking your fist right now, moaning that back in your day, there was no DLC. There were no season passes, games that needed hourly patches and services being delivered piecemeal to you on a weekly basis while you paid monthly for the privilege to play those games. No sir, you’d pop a cart into a machine, switch your console on, switch it off, take the cart back out, blow the dust off of it and then you’d play a game. Simple as that. No long-ass loading screens, just simple plug in and play gameplay. That’s how games of that age were the best. Bollocks.
Frozen is an excellent 8-bit game
Prepare for nostalgia with this 8-bit game version of Frozen.
Extras! 20 March 2014
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Extras! Jeff Wadlow will go fast, Dustin Hoffman & Bobby Cannavale get cooking, From under the dome to tomorrowland, Selena Gomez probably gets shot, and Neill Blomkamp wanted who originally for Elysium?!
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: July 19, 2013
Iron Man in 60 sixty seconds, Mega Man Style
Watch the first Iron Man film recreated in 8-bit, with decidedly Mega Man-inspired visuals.
Director Richard Moore talks Easter Eggs and character cameos in WRECK-IT-RALPH
If you haven’t noticed yet, over here at The Movies we all happen to be quite avid gamers as well as movie lovers. But whenever those two worlds combine we always get a little nervous, and rightfully so based on how dreadful video game movies tend to be. (I’ve single-handedly paid off my therapist’s Clifton mansion after watching Street Fighter: …
These 8 bit movie posters are geektastic!
I’m a child of the 80’s who had a medically certified unhealthy obsession with video games, so pretty much anytime “8” and “bit” is mentioned in close proximity together, my Pavlovian instincts kick in and I start to insta-drool. And now artist Eric Palmer has gone and taken that neurosis and blended it with my other not quite sane love …
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