I got it in spades. Theme music and high quality props are what you get when Foo Productions takes over. As you can tell with the picture, I wrote everyone’s name down and carefully sliced those into tabs – all about the same size – wanted to make it as fair as possible.

Who won?

Well, I guess you’ll have to watch the video and get my YouTube views up – won’t you? Special thanks goes out to Mrs. FooBear for filming this contest with her academy award-winning style. Congratulations goes to the winner and I’ll be contacting them like a midget.

Shortly.

Jurassic Park, the groundbreaking Steven Spielberg film series has long been a franchise that our team at Telltale wanted to tackle. As a property Jurassic Park is a story of survival and interpersonal relationships under extreme circumstance, something that traditional game genres simply are not built to address authentically.

Our designers truly pushed our traditional design boundaries further than ever before to create a game to focus the experience on this story of survival. With a design laser focused to follow the franchise tenants like no other film based game has ever done it’s a format we’ve labeled as a cinematic adventure. A design built not for the hardcore gamer but rather for the hardcore Jurassic Park fan, one that has always dreamed of spending some time on Isla Nublar. The final product has been polarizing with traditional game critics, but one thing that just about everyone can agree on is Jurassic Park: The Game delivers on our original vision – an authentic and cinematic Jurassic Park experience.

Let’s get this out of the way RIGHT NOW: Jurassic Park: The Game is NOT a point and click adventure. It doesn’t play like Sam and Max, Back to the Future, Puzzle Agent or any other of the Telltale Games releases we’ve enjoyed in the past.

Still here? Good. Let me tell you about how you control this game so you can get a better understanding of how this interactive adventure works. You could describe Jurassic Park: The Game as a Quick Time Event (QTE) extravaganza, since said interactions are available during most of the game, and they’re how you control each of the characters that you interact with, you better love them. Sure QTE are not for everyone, but in this case they do work as intended.

While viewing the game, you can interact by pressing the prompt button that will appear in the screen (as is the case during the opening sequence where your character is running away from some deadly creatures) or that you’ll find by moving around the camera view during those moments on which you’re not in immediate danger. You use the left analog stick during said moments in order to adjust the view, which could also trigger new buttons that might be pressed to interact with objects, persons or dinosaurs. The right analog stick is also used in here to perform some motion actions that translate from controller to screen, and that feel natural and make the gameplay flow from scene to scene.

There’s a nice graphical evolution here when compared to Back to the Future: The Game, as we can easily spot a better use for shadows and lighting in order to get the most out of each of the 12 scenarios you’ll be playing in this first Episode. Sure, there’s a small hiccup here and there in the animations, but nothing that can ruin your experience as a whole.

The story for Jurassic Park: The Game Episode 1 takes place at Isla Nublar during the events we witness during the first movie (based on the original 1990 book by Michael Crichton). We will visit Isla Nublar while playing as several characters that find themselves trapped in this amazing slice from the past on the night that the power goes out and the dinosaurs come out to play.

You’re graded in real time on each scenario on how well you’re doing (Gold, Silver, Bronze), and not dying during any of the action sequences will help you obtain a trophy after completing the episode. Speaking of which, you can replay scenarios (which is great news for us trophy hunters) in case you didn’t nail a sequence because, remember, you must really pay attention and be on alert at all times. This is trial-and-error gameplay at its finest, and the 12 scenarios available in Episode 1 will put you to the test.

Jurassic Park: The Game is a great new adventure from Telltale Games, that brings back a great series for a 21st century audience. It is a very tense game that has us glued to our screens from start to finish, and you do feel like you’re trapped in an island full of dangerous dinosaurs that can end your existence in an instant.

Published by Telltale Games

Cost – $29.99 (Full Season)

Disclaimer

Total amount of time played: 3 hours

This review is based on a copy of Jurassic Park: The Game provided by Telltale Games.

A rumored LittleBigPlanet Kart game was the talk on a few gaming websites based on a tweet made by a Canadian games retailer called Future Shop, who claims that they were shown the game at a PlayStation event in the US.

According to Future Shop, the title is in development by United Front Games the “studio behind Modnation Racers”, and it will feature some kind of Move compatible wheel that has not been reveled yet.

Firmware v4.10 will be released today with a new terms of services for you to accept. The new firmware is intended to change your PSN account to a “Sony Entertainment Network Account”, in efforts to unite all Sony media services. It will also carry major tweaks to the PlayStation 3 Internet browser which, according to Sony will make the browsing process a bet faster.

For more information on the new firmware, visit the official PlayStation Blog.

The Collector’s Edition includes:

* The War in the North PS3 game
* Ranger of the North quiver case with Map of Middle Earth Tapestry
* War in the North Art Book
* Inside Look: The Music of War in the North BluRay. Includes interviews and footage of composer Inon Zur at Abbey Road Studios and the E3 2011 concert event. Also includes three tracks from the game as a bonus.
* Digital content: War in the North wallpaper, fonts, icons, and more.

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As the PS3 exclusive combat racer prepares to ship this month Eat Sleep Play co-founder David Jaffe revealed his plans to depart from the company.

Scott Campbell broke the news during an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune stating that Jaffe is leaving the company the two of them created to tackle the casual market. When the story made waves online, Jaffe took to Twitter to explain his reasons for leaving ESP, his plans to continue supporting Twisted Metal and what’s ahead.

“I have zero plans to make games like Farmville and Angry Birds,” he tweeted. “I never said what I was doing post TM (and I’m still on TM along with ESP for the next months as we launch it and balance it in real-time and make sure it’s a perfect game and continue to support it).

At the same time I will be opening a game studio here in San Diego because I really miss internal game development. I’m leaving because – again – games are just getting 2 big to direct from 300 miles away & I miss the day 2 day of working direct w/team.”

Jaffe also stressed that he currently has no concrete plans on what his next game will be under his new studio or for which platform(s). As of now Twisted Metal is his top priority.

Take a first look at Ghost Recon Future Soldier in action in this premiere Single Player Gameplay Trailer. “Remember, Only the Dead Fight Fair.”

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will launch on May 22nd, 2012 in North America.

Hit the jump for some amazing new Art assets!!

“In the newest trailer for I Am Alive, the main character discusses the importance of climbing, managing stamina and exploring for resources in the post-apocalyptic world of Haventon.”

I am Alive, is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, and is scheduled for release on the SEN sometime this spring.

One year after a worldwide cataclysmic event that wiped out most of the human race, a man struggles for survival in a desolate city as he tries to reunite with his long lost family. In this post-apocalyptic tale, there are no supernatural threats, just an everyman who faces a decaying and hazardous world and humanity’s darkest inclinations. Will you hang on to your humanity and help strangers or are you ready to sacrifice others in order to survive?