GameSpy: Bad Day L.A. Preview

Continuing this morning’s BDLA posts… John Keefer over at GameSpy has posted his preview thoughts…
GameSpy: Bad Day L.A. Preview
American McGee likes to go against the grain. From his Alice game in 2000 featuring a wonderland on crack to his unfulfilled vision of Oz gone bad, his contrarian views on culture and conventional perceptions definitely [...]

Bad Day L.A. Updated Impressions at GameSpot

Jason Ocampo over at GameSpot has posted a nice preview article of BDLA. He says…
Bad Day L.A. Updated Impressions - French Terrorists, Zombies, and More - Bad Day L.A. Previews for PC at GameSpot
Admittedly, it’s a bit difficult just trying to describe Bad Day L.A., because we’ve never really seen anything quite like it. [...]

Idle Thumbs: American McGee’s Interview

Idle Thumbs is a gaming site written by people who are “…not cynical burnt-out industry veterans, or self righteous Japanese import snobs who want to show off how hardcore they are. We don’t believe replacing perfectly fine English words with French italicized ones is indicative of a higher intelligence. We’re also not “like The Onion, [...]

FBI forms anti-porn squad

Is this government serious? It seems that the US is doomed to fight un-winnable wars. First the war on drugs, then the war on terror, now the war on porn.

FBI forms anti-porn squad

Last month, the bureau’s Washington Field Office began recruiting for a
new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a memo from [...]

BDLA PR Tour Wrap-up

Last week I flew back to the US in order to undertake a Bad Day LA preview press tour. I’d had intentions to write a daily update of the tour but just couldn’t find the time or energy. Anyway… better late than never.
Behind the scenes the tour actually began several weeks before my flight [...]

BDLA Stirs Controversy

Writer Paul Rice recently wrote an article for the Spare Change News discussing the response that Bad Day LA is garnering from some homeless advocates and coalitions. Seems there is some confusion over stereotypes vs. reality, satirical social commentary vs. uninformed disparagement. Remarks from both sides in the article below…
Video Game Divides Activists
By Paul [...]

IGN: Bad Day L.A. Preview

I had hoped to send regular updates from the road while on the Bad Day LA PR tour… as it turns out, an unhappy combination of hectic schedule, serious jet lag, and sleepless nights led to no such updating. If I can get my brain to function while on the 12-hour flight back to the [...]

Bad Day LA PR Tour

Leaving Hong Kong this morning for the US. Will be taking Bad Day LA to a variety of game magazines for preview coverage.
Over the past two weeks the development team working on the project has been busting ass to get the demo levels ready. The game I’m leaving with today looks great, plays well, [...]

BDLA Trailer Goes Wide

A quick note to everyone who helped to raise awareness about the Bad Day LA trailer, watched it, and registered it on their wishlists: Thank You! In less than a week you helped to raise the GameStats.com popularity of the game from 0 to 29.4! For an independently developed game that has had zero marketing [...]

They Just Left Us Here to Die…

Reading about the hurricane disaster, which continues to unfold in Louisiana since Katrina passed through the region, I am repeatedly struck by a “truth is stranger than fiction” feeling. For instance:

Employees at A.J.’s Produce Co. on Chartres Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, spray-painted bright-red stern warnings for would-be thieves right on the [...]

IGN: Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper

Woot! The Bad Day LA Trailer is up on IGN!
IGN: Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper
Bad Day L.A. Trailer and Wallpaper
Not just your usual traffic jams and riots.
by Tom McNamara
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September 1, 2005 - In the movies Los Angeles has long been a town ravaged by one kind of destruction or another, whether it’s a volcano [...]

Bad Day New Orleans - An Act of God

I came across this brilliant article while reading about the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina…
“Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city,” stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. “From ‘Girls Gone Wild’ to ‘Southern Decadence,’ New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to [...]

Bad Day LA Posters

Some Bad Day LA promo posters sure to upset Hillary Clinton.

You can grab the full size versions here.

BDLA Trailer Coming!

On Thursday, September 1st, 2005, the first video trailer for my upcoming game title, Bad Day LA is going to make its worldwide debut. It will be released through gaming website IGN. The trailer is a fast paced, action-filled romp through some visually intense and darkly funny disaster scenes pulled straight from the game’s animated [...]

Bad Day LA Web Banners

For your web pleasure…

“Be prepared, not scared.”

(Image by Kin, Bad Day LA concept art)
I am a frequent reader of a column by writer Fred Reed. His views on many things having to do with life, politics, and the world in general are usually spot-on, humorous, and very much in line with my own views. One of his recent posts echoed the [...]

Ken Wong - Bad Day L.A. Interview

Team Xbox has a nice interview with Bad Day LA art director Ken Wong. Many of you are familiar with Ken Wong because of his work on many of my twisted tales properties including Oz and Grimm. From the interview:
What were the most difficult challenges you had to face in order to create the [...]

Gangbusters

(image courtesy Mayz, Bad Day LA concept artwork)
While creating Bad Day LA we tried to come up with a variety of interesting and unique enemy characters for the player to fight against across the city. Included in the final list you will find: terrorists, zombies, mutant cos-players, angry homeowners, rabid dogs, and finally, lots of [...]

Bad Day LA on GameSpy

Sal ‘Sluggo’ Accardo is running an interview focused on the design and art style of Bad Day LA over at GameSpy. The interview begins…
FOR ALL THE ENTERTAINMENT VALUE we get from them, it’s amazing how few videogames are actually funny. Amidst alien invasions, sports simulations, historical battles and fantasy adventures, humor is something that’s often [...]

Gamesplanet Bad Day LA Interview

Gamesplanet is featuring a new Bad Day LA interview.
GP: Don’t you guys fear that the game will disappear in the mediocre list of games, because it cannot really compete with graphically superior games like FEAR, Quake 4 or Ghost Recon 3? How are you going to convince people this game has a lot more [...]