My American Horror Story Video Game Wish List

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If you've listened to a Dead Pixels Podcast in the last 3-4 months you're fully aware of my totally normal obsession with two things: Skyrim and American Horror Story. I've already talked plenty on the former--you can expect even more Skyrim chat in our Game of the Year podcast in a few weeks--but I really haven't talked too much about just how incredible American Horror Story is. Having finally got around to finishing the finale earlier tonight, I've decided this show needs a video game. If Buffy, X-Files, and The Walking Dead can get one, this one deserves one too.





It seems as if the series was created with the idea of a video game adaptation in mind. Think about it: it's a horror story anthology that Xbox 360 Controller appeals to all flavors of people. Weird folks have plenty to enjoy, horror fans have a few scares and an incredibly creepy atmosphere, kinkier people have the Gimp scenes and more than a few brief shots of Dylan McDermott's muscular bum, and gamers with short attention spans will like the episodic approach. If this sounds like your type of thing, I suggest joining me after the jump so we can chat about it. Come on, it's safe on the other side, all you have to do is hit that little Read More button. Do it, you know you want to.

Let's start off with my first idea: the Alan Wake approach. Alan Wake was a story-driven horror/thriller with a tense atmosphere, a focus on its story/characters, and it was broken up into episodes, not unlike a television show.

This is perfect for American Horror Story.

Each episode would play out like an episode of the TV series, complete with its own story arch and a little twist at the end to make you antsy Xbox 360 accessories for the next episode. It would also be more of a third person game, like the parts in Heavy Rain where you were actually controlling your character (minus the god awful controls). Oh wait, I just thought of something even better. Bare with me here, it's really just best if you keep your limbs inside the boat as I guide us down this river of random thoughts and ideas.

Are you excited? This is how magic is made people. Magic.



Alan Wake's style might be a little too gamey for some Horror Story fans, so that leaves us with another option: the cinematic style. By this I mean something like Heavy Rain or Telltale's work on the Back to the Future Xbox 360 Kinect and Jurassic Park games. Ignoring for a second how awful the latter was, a more cinematic take could help the game retain the show's unpredictable nature.

I like to think of it being similar to Heavy Rain, only it's broken up into episodes. That way the story can be told and the player doesn't miss out on all the things that can be missed in a less linear game where you could wander off and miss XBox 360 Hard Drive little details. It could also mean your actions could change the direction the story takes. Maybe Violet doesn't take all those pills, or Tate actually does manage to outrun the ghosts of his victims that chased him on Halloween night, or maybe you could just play as the maid and clean stuff through mini-games.

Wait, something's happening. Maid… mini-game… yes.

I want a God of War style sex mini game, only this time it's from the woman's prospective. I want to play as the maid so I can lure unsuspecting men into the house, have my way with them, then right when they're about to finish, BOO! I was actually an old chick the whole time! Achievement unlocked.



So I have a few questions for you. First off, does the idea of a well done American Horror Story video game sound good to you, and if one was to get made, should it be in the style of Alan Wake, Heavy Rain, or something else entirely? 8812abc09 1228

Are the newest Android phones already obsolete?

This week marks the launch of Motorola's Droid Bionic, arguably the most chock-full-o'-tech android phones to date. But despite its charms — I have one here, it's got some flaws, but it is mostly charming — it arrives surrounded by dark clouds of doubt.
There are increasing rumors of the next android tablets
, Ice Cream Sandwich, appearing this fall, as well as a dark horse Samsung-built "Nexus Prime" or "Droid Prime" phone possibly appearing on Verizon. "Is Bionic the best?" suddenly becomes "Is Bionic — and all the other cheap android phones on the market — already obsolete?"

I love android phone, and marvel at its evolution. In fact, as mysterious and stupidly named as it is, Ice Cream Sandwich seems to be the brightest dot on the timeline yet. The biggest problem to date has been the variety of processors, RAM and screen resolutions, overlaid with a variety of android tablet OS versions, creating what's referred to as "fragmentation."
The problem is reflected in app compatibility and appearance — there's no guarantee that the app you download will match the resolution of the screen on your phone. Developers are gung-ho for Android, but the quality control in the Android Market or Amazon Appstore is nowhere near what it is in Apple's App Store for iOS phones and tablets.
But what if the answer to cheap android tablets and developers' prayers isn't available to any of the current phones? To put it more bluntly, what if every phone out, even the smokingest of smoking super phones, is obsolete the second that Ice Cream Sandwich appears, gazing out from the high-definition Super AMOLED screen of a Droid Prime?
We certainly hope that a dual-core powerhouse like the Droid Bionic can be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, but the track record of carriers and phone makers does not engender optimism. A site called android tablets wholesale and Me did an exceptional job breaking down the frequency of Android upgrades by carrier and phone maker. Sprint has offered updates for five of its 13 currently sold android phones wholesale — and they come in first place. Good job, Sprint! T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are worse. As for hardware makers, measuring Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG, wholesale android tablets and Me determined they're all roughly in the same boat, having offered upgrades to about 40 percent of their phones.

Why do we have to deal with this kind of uncertainty? Apple is known for secrecy in future products, yet when it announced its next mobile OS, it was very clear about what phones would qualify for the existing upgrade. Admittedly, this is a far easier task for Apple — about 100 times easier by my math. But since Ice Cream Sandwich has been announced, why can't hardware makers insist on some kind of future-proof labeling? "Ice Cream Sandwich ready" or, codenamey jargon aside, just "Android upgrade capable"? Microsoft gets its partners to do it when a new Windows version comes out, and they have a bazillion partners too. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
The Apple reference isn't just there to get up the fur on the backs of the Android faithful. It's also to raise the question, earlier dismissed, that maybe Google's purchase of Motorola will create a new system, where there is accountability and upgradeability. I share the general belief that Google doesn't want to alienate partners like HTC and Samsung by getting too hands-on with a competing hardware maker, but at the very least, we should hope that the acquisition means Google has more influence over hardware and carrier upgrade constraints, while giving the company more insight into the importance of certain kinds of uniformity — of screen resolution, for instance — that help to improve the user and developer experience.
Is that too much to ask? Probably. Good luck, phone shoppers! Have fun upgrading your new android phones wholesale!

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