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Prototype Hero Goes Bad in Sequel

Prototype Hero Goes Bad in Sequel

Alex Mercer, protagonist of the gory actioner Prototype, has become the villain. (Don’t you hate it when that happens?) Prototype 2 finds Mercer — still possessing all of the awesome power he mastered in the first game —  infecting a new character named James Heller with the Prototype virus. Heller is the antithesis of Mercer, a family man with an actual moral code. But when Heller loses his family and is infected with the virus, he turns on Mercer, and in the words of developers at Radical Entertainment, “sets out to murder his maker.” I never played the first Prototype, but I wonder how gamers will react when the character they played Read more »

Wolfenstein 3D on iPhone controlled with virtual joystick prototype

Wolfenstein 3D on iPhone controlled with virtual joystick prototype

Today I received an interesting email from Alex Winston whose company has been developing a virtual joystick application for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a prototype that allows Wolfenstein 3D to be controlled from a second device connected up using a crossover audio cable. Read more »