I posted a piece over at GDN w
here I address the reasons why I think it might happen in the near future:
Warner Bros and Bandai America are teaming up for a merchandising mash to help promote the new Thundercats. Could that mean a video game? Warner Bros recently purchased the Midway Games assets and have their own gaming division in Warner Bros Interactive and Bandai is of course a branch of Namco Bandai who, as we all know, also makes video games.
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June 3rd, 2010
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Alpha Protocol from Obsidian Entertainment and SEGA was delayed a couple times for unknown reasons. Our guess would be that those delays were to create a far better gaming experience overall. While it’s still got some big flaws, it’s not too shabby.
Alpha Protocol has been dubbed the espionage RPG. It’s certainly got strong elements of both, but at times still feels more like standard action game or TPS. That’s not to say there’s not a lot of interesting gameplay, it’s just that some missions end up being all-out shooting matches making it seem less like espionage and more like deathmatch. But when things go sour on an operation sometimes there’s no other option but to start shooting
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May 31st, 2010
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Booster Trooper, from DNS Development, is a side-scrolling 2D shooter that gives you several different weapons, grenades and a jetpack to take on a never-ending army of respawning enemies. The game is fairly basic as it only requires four direction keys and the mouse. 
The game offers four familiar modes – deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag and destroy the beacon (demolition) in both single player and online multiplayer. However, I was unable to find anyone online playing the game. That’s not to say no one is playing it as there are some global leaderboards, it just seems like they don’t play often. So I was limited to the single player experience which only allows for deathmatch and team deathmatch. This is most likely due to limited AI intelligence.
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May 26th, 2010
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