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Amazing Spider-Man faces off against giant robo spider
Here's the full trailer of that Amazing Spider-Man teaser from last week, featuring Spidey fighting an army of robo spiders.
Amazing Spider-Man will be an epilogue to the film, official site swings into view
A brief teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man (above) promises a more amazing look at the game with this weekend's VGAs. There's also a new official site to poke around, if that's your thing. We imagine you like web sites. The Amazing Spider-Man is slated to launch alongside the movie next summer and serves as an epilogue to the film. It brings back the free-roaming web-slinging of games past, with a story penned by Seamus Kevin Fahey, who's written for TV shows including Battlestar Galactica. %Gallery-141264%
The Amazing Spider-Man has been cooking for at least a year; Acti canned Spider-Man 4
It's hard to nail down exactly when Beenox began production of The Amazing Spider-Man. According to Activision producer Doug Heder, Amazing has been in the works for longer than either Shattered Dimensions or Edge of Time, the publisher's two latest Spidey titles. "We've spent more time on this game than we will have on either of the other two," he explained to me after Marvel's game panel at New York Comic Con this past weekend. But that's not to say that all that time has been spent in production -- apparently the genesis of Amazing was nearly four years ago, though development didn't begin in earnest until about a year ago. "They are two completely separate teams," Heder said of the developing studio, Beenox. "We have separate leads, separate artists, separate designers -- they're working in parallel with each other." Heder also noted that, at one point, Activison had another studio working on a Spider-Man 4 title to be released alongside a planned movie. When the movie fell through, however, Activision canceled the project and concentrated on other Spidey games. "That was a completely different studio that was working on it, completely different tech, and engine and everything," Heder said. "And when the movie shut down, we shut the game down." Reports from 2009 suggest Radical was working on the now canned title, but Heder unfortunately wouldn't get any more specific.
Watch The Amazing Spider-Man's first gameplay trailer right here
Sure, you already knew that the Amazing version of Spider-Man would be getting his own game, but have you seen the New York Comic Con trailer yet? Unless you were in the room with us, the answer is probably no, but we've got it here for you right now!
Beenox working on an Amazing Spider-Man game (legal clarification: THAT IS JUST THE TITLE)
As you, let's be frank, knew all along, Activision will release a video game based on The Amazing Spider-Man, the celluloid relaunch of America's favorite wall-crawler. IGN spotted a poster for the game at the New York Comic-Con, going on ... well, right now, as a matter of fact. Though its existence is no surprise, the fact that it's being developed by Beenox may just be. Should it release alongside the film in July, The Amazing Spider-Man will follow Beenox's dismal Spider-Man: Edge of Time by just nine months. Nine months. Like a baby. On the bright side, Amazing Spider-Man will likely only feature one Spidey as compared to Edge of Time's two Spideys. So maybe it only needs half as much development time? Maybe?
Irrational interviews Marvel's Brian Michael Bendis on writing
Moving from game development to multidisciplinary writing, Irrational Games' Ken Levine and Shawn Elliott chat with Amazing Spider-Man writer Brian Michael Bendis on the second episode of Irrational Interviews, released this week. Did you know that what became BioShock was heavily seeded by a trip Levine and his wife took to Rockefeller Center? You would've if you'd already listened to the episode! What're you waiting for, dummy? Direct Download / iTunes Feed / Irrational Interviews RSS Feed [Image credit: Pinguino]
