Tag: Buffy

  • IndiaGames launches ‘Buffy – The Vampire Slayer’

    MUMBAI: Mobile games publisher IndiaGames has launched a mobile game based on the popular TV series Buffy – The Vampire Slayer. This action / adventure game is JAVA based with multilevel game play.
    The game can be downloaded onto JAVA enabled mobile phones for rupees one hundred fifty (Rs.150.00) and is available to subscribers of Airtel, Hutch, BPL and Tata.

     
     
    IndiaGames CEO Vishal Gondal says, “We have brought in all the elements associated with Buffy into the game. Buffy’s fighting skills, magic, using weapons, potions and fire, acrobatic jumps and somersaults have been simulated in this mobile game. Apart from the game we have developed wallpapers and ring-tones as well.”
     
     
    Buffy- The Vampire Slayer is a highly successful television series by 20th Century Fox revolving around the life of Buffy (played by Emmy award winner Sarah Michelle Gellar) the chosen one – a Vampire Slayer – and her close group of friends, protecting their town (Sunnydale) from evil and the undead in all incarnations.
     
     
    The player plays the part of Buffy in a spooky castle filled with demons, traps and other evil characters trying to stop Buffy from finding Oz and defeating Drusilla. As Buffy, the player can walk, run, jump and perform special moves like summersault and acrobatic jumps with tapestry rods. Besides the lethal punches and kicks, Buffy has a range of weapons like cross-bows, swords and a special hell-fire. To ward-off zombies, Buffy can use potions and holy-water.

  • ‘Buffy’ to call it a day after 7 seasons

    LOS ANGELES: There is sad news in store for television fans who have been enthralled at the sight of the high flying Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking vampires butt in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer . After seven seasons, 20th Century Fox Television and UPN have announced that the show will end production in April and will broadcast its final original episode in the US on 20 May on UPN.
    In India, the previous season got over a while back on Star World and a new season will start in a month or so. It will be interesting to see where it fits into the channel’s new programming strategy.
    The series will wrap up with a five-part story, which will include the return of Faith, the bad-girl slayer, and Buffy’s first love, Angel. Talks are in progress about a possible spinoff which could see some of the characters make a return as well as how the Buffy franchise can be further extended.
    The show made its television debut in the US on 10 March 1997. With the finale the total number of episodes produced will be 144. The show has won two Emmy awards.