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Escape From Butcher Bay
''The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'' is a first-person action and stealth video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and Tigon Studios, and was published by Vivendi Universal Games. Released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2004, the game's story is a prequel to the futuristic science fiction film ''Pitch Black''. Actor Vin Diesel—who was involved in the game's development—reprises his role as that film's protagonist, Richard B. Riddick. The game follows Riddick, the anti-hero of the two films ''Pitch Black'' and '' The Chronicles of Riddick'', as he attempts to escape from a maximum-security prison called Butcher Bay. ''Escape from Butcher Bay''s designers focused on exploring Riddick's character in a prison break setting to differentiate the game from the film. The game's influences include the film '' Escape from Alcatraz'', and video games such as ''Half-Life'' and ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell''. ''Escape from Butcher Bay'' received acclaim by c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in Stockholm. The studios's notable games developed include ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'', ''Payday 2'' and ''Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons''. Founded by members of the demogroup Triton (demogroup), Triton, the company was merged with O3 Games in 2002 wherein the Starbreeze name was retained. The company produced titles including ''Enclave (video game), Enclave'' and ''Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade''. In the early 2000s, cancellations of their projects due to conflicts with publishers and a failed acquisition led to a severe financial crisis, resulting in staff lay-offs during the development of Starbreeze's fourth game, ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay''. This game received critical acclaim and helped Starbreeze establish a reputation for producing high-quality games. The company worked on ''The Darkness (video game), The Darkne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assault On Dark Athena
''The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena'' is a science fiction first-person action video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X. The game is a sequel to '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'', which was remade and included along with the ''Assault on Dark Athena'' campaign. The game was released on April 7, 2009. A demo was released on Xbox Live on March 4, 2009, with a PlayStation Network release following on March 12, 2009. Virtual Programming released the Mac OS X version on April 16, 2010, as a download through Deliver2Mac.com and other digital distribution web sites. The game was developed by Tigon Studios and Starbreeze Studios, and published by Atari Interactive. According to Ian Stevens, Head of Production at Tigon Studios, the decision to do a remake was because Microsoft could not make the Xbox 360 backward compatible with ''Escape from Butcher Bay'', and because they wanted to get the ''Escape'' story to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Video Gaming
The year 2009 saw many sequels and prequels in video games. New intellectual properties include '' Batman: Arkham Asylum'', ''Bayonetta'', ''Borderlands'', ''Demon's Souls'', '' Dragon Age: Origins'', ''Infamous'', '' Just Dance'', ''Minecraft'', and ''Prototype''. Best-selling games The following are the top ten best-selling games of 2009 in terms of worldwide retail sales. Events Console releases The list of game consoles released in 2009 in North America. Game releases List of games released in 2009 in North America. Critically acclaimed titles Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff bei ... (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. See also * 2009 in games Notes References {{History of Video Games Video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Video Game Award
The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2003 to 2013 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year. Produced by '' GameTrailers TV's'' Geoff Keighley, the show featured preview trailers for upcoming games, live music performances and appearances by popular performers in music, movies, and television. The VGAs was held at various locations in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. Spike's only Video Game Hall of Fame award, given to ''The Legend of Zelda'', was awarded at the 2011 awards show. On November 15, 2013, Spike announced a new format under the name ''VGX'', calling it "The next generation of the VGAs". The last award show, carrying this name, aired on December 7. Changes from the previous format included "in-depth extended demos of the next generation of games and interactive one-on-one interviews and panels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Joystick Award
The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, is a video game award ceremony; it awards the best video games of the year, as voted for originally by the British general public, but is now a global event that can be voted online via ''GamesRadar+''. , the ceremony was in its 39th year. It is the longest-running video game award ceremony, launched in 1983, and the second-oldest video game award ceremony after the Arcade Awards, launched in 1981. The awards were initially focused on PC games, but were later extended to include console games as well, owing to the success of video game consoles such as the Sega Master System and the Sega Mega Drive in the United Kingdom. The ceremony is not directly related to the golden joystick prize given away to successful contestants on ''GamesMaster'', a British television show, but both properties belong to Future plc. In 2021, the Golden Joystick Awards celebrated 50 Years Of Games by asking the public to vote for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Video Games Considered The Best
This is a list of video games that multiple reputable video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are included on at least six separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications, as chosen by their editorial staffs. List Publications The reference numbers in the notes section show which of the 46 selected publications list the game. # '' 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die'' – 2013 # ''The Age'' – 2005 # ''Collider'' – 2020 # ''Digitally Downloaded'' – 2016 # '' Electric Playground Network'' – 2013 # ''Edge'' – 2000, 2015, 2017 # ''Electronic Fun with Computers & Games'' - 1984 # ''Empire'' – 2009 # ''Entertainment Weekly'' – 2003 # ''Esquire'' – 2018, 2020 # ''FHM'' – 2010 # ''Flux'' – 1995 # '' G4'' – 2012 # '' GamesMaster'' - 1996 # ''Gamecenter'' - 2000 # ''Game Informer'' – 2009, 2018 # ''Game On! From Pong to Oblivion'' – 2006 # ''GameSpot'' – 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Following
A cult following refers to a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium. The lattermost is often called a cult classic. A film, book, musical artist, television series, or video game, among other things, is said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fanbase. A common component of cult followings is the emotional attachment the fans have to the object of the cult following, often identifying themselves and other fans as members of a community. Cult followings are also commonly associated with niche markets. Cult media are often associated with underground culture, and are considered too eccentric or anti-establishment to be appreciated by the general public or to be widely commercially successful. Many cult fans express their devotion with a level of irony when describing entertainment that falls under this realm, in that something ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (video Game)
''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell'' is a 2002 stealth video game developed by Ubi Soft Montreal and published by Ubi Soft. It is the first game in the ''Splinter Cell'' series. Endorsed by author Tom Clancy, it follows the activities of NSA black ops agent Sam Fisher (voiced by Michael Ironside). The game was inspired by both the ''Metal Gear'' series and games created by Looking Glass Studios, and was built using Unreal Engine 2. Originally released as an Xbox exclusive in 2002, the game was ported to Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, GameCube and Mac OS X in 2003. A side-scrolling adaptation developed by Gameloft was also released in 2003 for Game Boy Advance, mobile phones and N-Gage (the latter with the subtitle ''Team Stealth Action''). A remastered high definition version was released on PlayStation 3 in September 2011, and an Xbox version was made available for Xbox One via backward compatibility in June 2019. ''Splinter Cell'' received critical acclaim on release and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-Life (video Game)
''Half-Life'' is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the ''Half-Life'' series. Players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is invaded by aliens. The gameplay consists of combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Unlike other games of the time, the player has almost uninterrupted control of the player character, and the story is told mostly in scripted sequences rather than cutscenes. Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said that the team was disappointed with the lack of innovation in the FPS genre, and aimed to create an immersive world rather than a "shooting gallery". Valve developed using GoldSrc, a heavily modified version of the ''Quake'' engine, licensed from id Software. The science fiction novelist Marc Laidlaw was hired to shape the story and assist with design. ''Half-Life'' received accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape From Alcatraz (film)
''Escape from Alcatraz'' is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed by Don Siegel. It is an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and dramatizes the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film stars Clint Eastwood, and features Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin. Danny Glover appears in his film debut. ''Escape from Alcatraz'' marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following ''Coogan's Bluff'' (1968), ''Two Mules for Sister Sara'' (1970), '' The Beguiled'' (1971), and ''Dirty Harry'' (1971). Plot In early 1960 Frank Morris, an exceptionally intelligent criminal who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The Warden curtly informs him that Alcatraz is unique within the US prison system for its exceedingly high level of security and that no inmate has ever successfully escaped. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicles Of Riddick
''The Chronicles of Riddick'' is a 2004 American science fiction action film written and directed by David Twohy. It follows the adventures of Richard B. Riddick as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film '' Pitch Black''. Vin Diesel reprises his role as Riddick and acts as producer, alongside Thandiwe Newton (credited as Thandie), Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos, Colm Feore, and Keith David. It is the first and so far only film in the franchise to be given a PG-13 rating. The film received negative reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus says it "offers some thrills" but calls it "a disappointment". It grossed $115.8 million worldwide making it a financial disappointment despite being the highest grossing Riddick film in the franchise. Plot Fugitive Riddick has been in hiding, evading bounty hunters and mercenaries sent to capture him. After killing a crew led by mercenary Toombs and stealing his ship on planet U.V., he heads to New Mecca on the planet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
