{"id":41712,"date":"2012-07-21T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41712"},"modified":"2012-07-23T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:26:00","slug":"deadpool-comic-author-to-write-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41712-deadpool-comic-author-to-write-the-game","title":{"rendered":"Deadpool comic author to write the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to up the quality of the cash-in-on-the-movie superhero video games we\u2019ve had in the last few years, Activision has taken on Daniel Way, author of the Deadpool comics, to write the game as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release supposedly written by Deadpool himself, head of developer High Moon Studios Della Penna claimed, &#8220;Deadpool came by the studio one day, said he was taking over, and that if I didn&#8217;t hire Marvel writer Daniel Way pronto and make the most amazing Deadpool video game, he&#8217;d break both of our arms and beat us to death with them. I have kids, so we&#8217;re making the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Deadpool game will feature all of my favorite things &#8211; katanas (check), big guns (and not just these amazing arm muscles) (check), crazy poop-your-pants action (check), hot chicks (check), maybe some of my X-Men friends (well, depending on what they&#8217;re wearing), burritos, bouncy houses and of course ME!!! (check) (check) And check!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Referencing some of High Moon\u2019s previous work, Deadpool said, &#8220;If High Moon can make an amazing game about big transforming robots look cool, then they can surely make me look amazing in a third-person action video game,&#8221; referring to the studios Transformers titles.<\/p>\n<p>Deadpool\u2019s jokes and rogue character have made him a favourite amongst comic book fans, putting pressure on High Moon to deliver a believable incarnation.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-07-20-deadpool-scribe-daniel-way-penning-the-game\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Deadpool re-announces his own game\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41453-deadpool-re-announces-his-own-game.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deadpool re-announces his own game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41361-deadpool-video-game-revealed-at-comic-con.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deadpool video game revealed at Comic Con<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Deadpool video game revealed at Comic Con\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41361-deadpool-video-game-revealed-at-comic-con.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deadpool video game revealed at Comic Con<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"High Moon and Marvel team up for Hit Monkey\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40934-high-moon-and-marvel-team-up-for-hit-monkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">High Moon and Marvel team up for Hit Monkey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision brings in the big guns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":41713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[587,5806,5690,21,5807,4083,1543],"class_list":["post-41712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-activision","tag-daniel-way","tag-deadpool","tag-headline","tag-high-moon","tag-marvel","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41753,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions\/41753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}