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New King Kong Game Announced

A new King Kong game is in the works. King Kong is one of the most iconic characters in fiction. [...]

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A new King Kong game is in the works. King Kong is one of the most iconic characters in fiction. The character made his debut on the big screen in 1933 and has been a pop culture staple ever since. He has been iterated upon countless times through books, games, and films, getting all kinds of big blockbusters from directors like Peter Jackson with all-star casts. King Kong is a pillar of cinema, but he has been missing from video games for some time. Outside of a somewhat strange appearance in Call of Duty: Warzone in 2022 with his good pal Godzilla, King Kong hasn't been represented in a game for a while. The last AAA King Kong game was from Ubisoft in 2005 and was a tie-in with the Peter Jackson film.

However, he will return to our consoles soon. As reported by Licensing Magazine, DeVito Artworks has partnered up with GameMill Entertainment (Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl) to produce a new King Kong game for a variety of platforms. As of right now, we don't know much else about it. We don't know the genre, the exact platforms, or even when it might release, but rest assured, King Kong is coming.

"I could not be more excited to be working with GameMill Entertainment's talented team that will provide both King Kong fans and gamers the chance to experience King Kong's primordial world in a gamified way", says Joe DeVito, of DeVito Artworks. "We continue to expand our King Kong licensing program in various categories including VR arcade games, collectibles, comic books and board games".

 

[Labolas]

Meh. Godzilla > Kong.

 

[LordCBH]

Coming from a shovelware dev.

 

[jigglet]

 

[eastcoastkody]

that game based on the jack black movie was surprisingly fun

 

[Magic Carpet]

Break his Jaw!

 

[TheRobot]

that game based on the jack black movie was surprisingly fun

I watched the movie recently and was curious if there's a way to play that game these days.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Nobody asked for this.

 

[Gudji]

 

[Halo is Back]

Meh. Godzilla > Kong.

Same, we need a decent Godzilla game again!

 

[SLB1904]

that game based on the jack black movie was surprisingly fun

Masterpiece. The fight with t rex was jaw dropping. Ahead of its time

 

[SmokedMeat]

Same, we need a decent Godzilla game again!

Again?

 

[makaveli60]

I was never particulary interested in King Kong but the 2005 game was mindblowingly good at the time

 

[semiconscious]

A new King Kong game is in the works. King Kong is one of the most iconic characters in fiction. The character made his debut on the big screen in 1933 and has been a pop culture staple ever since. He has been iterated upon countless times through books, games, and films, getting all kinds of big blockbusters from directors like Peter Jackson with all-star casts. King Kong is a pillar of cinema, but he has been missing from video games for some time. Outside of a somewhat strange appearance in Call of Duty: Warzone in 2022 with his good pal Godzilla, King Kong hasn't been represented in a game for a while. The last AAA King Kong game was from Ubisoft in 2005 and was a tie-in with the Peter Jackson film.

sorry, but there just aren't a whole lotta directors like peter jackson...

 

[Mister Wolf]

Godzilla better be the final boss. In his final mode he should fight on 4 legs like a gator.

 

[KyoZz]

As of right now, we don't know much else about it. We don't know the genre, the exact platforms, or even when it might release

 

[intbal]

King Kong.
That's a fresh IP.

I guess the Rip Van Winkle license was taken.

 

[NeonGhost]

Godzilla better be the final boss. In his final mode he should fight on 4 legs like a gator.

this is his final form

 

[MiguelItUp]

Yeaaaah, I'd much rather a Godzilla game over Kong. Curious to know what the outcome will be though.

 

[EDMIX]

Coming from a shovelware dev.

Thats so funny, I was just fucking talking about companies that own these IPs giving a damn and only doing the contract with a reputable well known developer.

Its like they don't learn.

So...they saw all that success and massive record sales from Star Wars Fallen Order, Battlefront, Spiderman, Batman series and was like "shiiiiiiiit lets get the cheapest team out, they'll buy it for da name bro"

 

[Halo is Back]

Again?

The last decent game was on the original Xbox and PS2

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I was never particulary interested in King Kong but the 2005 game was mindblowingly good at the time

Fuck this game I just ordered this for GameCube instead.

 

[AJUMP23]

Not interested.

 

[ReBurn]

Another easy 1000 gamerscore?

 

[CamHostage]

However, he will return to our consoles soon. As reported by Licensing Magazine, DeVito Artworks has partnered up with GameMill Entertainment (Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl) to produce a new King Kong game for a variety of platforms. As of right now, we don't know much else about it. We don't know the genre, the exact platforms, or even when it might release, but rest assured, King Kong is coming.

"I could not be more excited to be working with GameMill Entertainment's talented team that will provide both King Kong fans and gamers the chance to experience King Kong's primordial world in a gamified way", says Joe DeVito, of DeVito Artworks. "We continue to expand our King Kong licensing program in various categories including VR arcade games, collectibles, comic books and board games".

Hmm. It's bound to be budge, being published by GameMill, but it's interesting that like license came from the DeVito Artworks side of the license, which owns specifically the "Kong of Skull Island" stuff. (It's a complicated license... even the movie "Kong: Skull Island" is its own unique thing, and DeVito sued the moviemakers.) It could be more dark and wild than the usual kid stuff that GameMill pumps out. Or not. Either way, it's not worth talking about with any excitement since this publisher does not afford for good stuff to be made, but if you like the big ape, look forward to it?

 

[CamHostage]

Thats so funny, I was just fucking talking about companies that own these IPs giving a damn and only doing the contract with a reputable well known developer.

Its like they don't learn.

So...they saw all that success and massive record sales from Star Wars Fallen Order, Battlefront, Spiderman, Batman series and was like "shiiiiiiiit lets get the cheapest team out, they'll buy it for da name bro"

They have learned, which is the problem.

There was a time when licensing was good business, but now everybody wants to own their own IP. Developers don't want to work on contract for a set fee (or even some nominal participation,) and brand owners don't want to farm out their brands unless they can control the use of and profits off of its brands. (Notice that half the titles you mentioned are developed inside the walls of the company who owns the brand, and the other half were through long-term partnerships in tandem with the brand holder under terms beyond the typical "licensed property" agreement?)

Unfortunately, we're not in the same market which spawned great developer-calling-card games using licensed properties for games such as Chronicles of Riddick, Goldeneye, KOTOR, XMEN Origins Wolverine, LEGO Star Wars, Buffy, or AvP. Those projects just don't happen anymore. Development timelines take too long and brand holders are far too hands-on for the projects to be worthwhile. The business still works in the mobile space (kind of? even licenced mobile games are way fewer than for example when GameLoft had all kinds of cellphone games based on whatever property was hot at the time.) New stuff like Avatar FoP or Indiana Jones by MachineWorks are rarities rather than the norm. (And even internal brand productions like Hogwarts Legacy and Multiversus and Batman are way less common than they were in past generations; even when publishers have full control of both the brand and the developer, these games don't come together as quickly as they once did.)

If DeVito Artworks was waiting for a phone call to be returned from great developers like Insomniac or The Collective when they were trying to get good developers on their Kong brand, that line would have been dead line for a long, long time...

 

[Vick]

Fuck this game I just ordered this for GameCube instead.

Xbox 360 version was by far the best. Lovely game.

 

[Monad]

Xbox 360 version was by far the best. Lovely game.

My first 1000G, iirc.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

THIS SUMMER, KING KONG WILL GET SHIT... ON YOU.

I kid, but if this was based on the 70s movie or even Kong: Skull Island, that'd be cool as shit.

 

[SmokedMeat]

The last decent game was on the original Xbox and PS2

I preferred the original Gamecube melee title. But that was pretty much the only good Godzilla game I’ve ever played. The rest have been mediocre.

 

[xrnzaaas]

that game based on the jack black movie was surprisingly fun

Yes it was fun, definitely one of the better movie games out there. I only wish it was longer.

 

[Chittagong]

If it’s another easy 1000 gamer points on Xbox I’m game

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Again?

Destroy All Monsters Melee and Save the Earth were fantastic 3D fighters.

 

[Imtjnotu]

The PS2 Era kong game base on the movie was the shit

 

[Gamerguy84]

Unexpected.

 

[SuperSaiyanWithDreads]

Meh. Godzilla > Kong.

King Kong > Godzilla

 

[Labolas]

King Kong > Godzilla

 

[Max_Po]

that game based on the jack black movie was surprisingly fun

I remember getting full 1000 achievements
Points....

To stretch my online epeen.... yeah

 

[SmokedMeat]

King Kong > Godzilla

No way. But I will say that Kong Skull Island and Peter Jackson’s Kong were awesome.

 

[SuperSaiyanWithDreads]

No way. But I will say that Kong Skull Island and Peter Jackson’s Kong were awesome.

Thanks for proving my opinion

 

[SmokedMeat]

Thanks for proving my opinion

Yeah, but Shin Godzilla plus Godzilla’s history of kickass movies give him the edge for me.
But I can’t blame you for liking Kong more. The Monsterverse Kong is great, and the fights in Skull Island were *chef’s kiss*

 

[CamHostage]

Yeah, but Shin Godzilla plus Godzilla’s history of kickass movies give him the edge for me.
But I can’t blame you for liking Kong more. The Monsterverse Kong is great, and the fights in Skull Island were *chef’s kiss*

Godzilla vs. Kong was an interesting experience for me; in the first 20 minutes or so, I was thinking, "No, this is nonsense...", and then it got to that first fight on the boat and suddenly I started to give it a chance as silly-but-exciting action that was made in admiration of the late Showa era movies and unabashedly untethered from reality as we know if, and eventually I got to the point of saying, "Yes, this is my kind of nonsense!"

Shin Godzilla was unabashedly great though. There's moments in that I'll never forget, which didn't seem possible for the Nth Godzilla movie I've seen in my life.

 

[SuperSaiyanWithDreads]

Yeah, but Shin Godzilla plus Godzilla’s history of kickass movies give him the edge for me.
But I can’t blame you for liking Kong more. The Monsterverse Kong is great, and the fights in Skull Island were *chef’s kiss*

I also played that Kong game on the first Xbox and it was decent. Haven’t seen a Godzilla game

 

[cash_longfellow]

this is his final form

Is this from a Bethesda game?

 

[NeonGhost]

Is this from a Bethesda game?

No Godzilla vs megalon movie

 

[cash_longfellow]

No Godzilla vs megalon movie

I knew, was just joking about it looking like a glitch

 

[Nico_D]

For some reason I read that "Donkey Kong". I leave severely disappointed.

 

[k_trout]

so will we get to play as Kong, who has to stealth into the humans base to kidnap the woman without setting off any alarms?

 

[SmokedMeat]

I also played that Kong game on the first Xbox and it was decent. Haven’t seen a Godzilla game

They did a good job with the Kong game. Godzilla games have largely been garbage, with the one decent one being Destroy All Monsters Melee on Gamecube.

The Dreamcast Godzilla game was pretty interesting for its time, but it was more of a demo for you to just destroy a city. Not a single monster to fight.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I watched the movie recently and was curious if there's a way to play that game these days.

Xbox 360 version was by far the best. Lovely game.