Because people can’t get enough of the 10 minutes of actual events that ABC crams into every hour of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” Interactive Entertainment will develop video games based on the reality dating shows.
Expect games based on both dating games to ship “across multiple platforms” following the conclusion of The Bachelor’s 2010 season. Since Ludia is pegged as the developer—the creator of fine licensed products based on The Price Is Right, Hell’s Kitchen, American Idol and more—don’t be surprised if the platforms handed a rose are the Wii, Nintendo DS, PC and iPhone. Ludia loves long walks on the beach and casual-leaning hardware. [Kotaku]
This sounds awesome. I’ve been interested in Internet dating, but apparently that has actual interaction with other human beings. This sounds exactly what I’ve been looking for. All the courting of women that I have for so long wanted to do, but without the agony of speaking to other people.
Holy crap. I had no idea that there was a video game version of “Grey’s Anatomy.” However, if I had known it existed, I still wouldn’t have needed to watch this video to guess correctly that it sucks, and sucks HARD. Sucks like Jenna Haze working a vacuum cleaner in a room full of dicks on a spaceship headed toward a black hole. You could give me the choice of playing this game or being hunted by a pack of wild dogs, and I’d have to at least think it over. Say what you will about being torn apart by feral dogs, at least it’s not boring.
[College Humor and Best Week Ever]
Showtime’s serial-killer drama “Dexter” is being made into a video game that you can play on your iPhone. You know, if you’re one of those assholes with an iPhone. IGN describes the gameplay:
First, you must set up the revenge room so the teacher, Donovan, is faced with his crimes. To do this, you must dig up the bodies of the slain. (Exhuming dead kids? Hello, 17+ rating on iTunes.) After acquiring a shovel, you locate disturbed earth in a seedy park… You must drag three bodies out of the ground to set up the revenge room, but if you locate the fourth body, you score a 100-percent rating on evidence…
Plus you get the satisfaction of exhuming a fourth child’s body from a seedy park — which is its own reward, really.
Once… Donovan admits he is a sick man, you end his life. And at this point, your iPhone becomes a scalpel. You don’t actually see Dexter carve Donovan. Instead, you do it yourself, swiping your iPhone back and forth, using the accelerometer to wield this virtual blade. Out of the speakers, you hear every cut and tear, as well as Donovan’s screams. It is… creepy.
The downside? All that vigorous swiping and slashing makes you look less cool, and that totally ruins the iPhone experience.
[via A+E Interactive]
