After months of being silent about upcoming PC and Nintendo DS builds of video game Insecticide, developer Crackpot Entertainment and publisher Gamecock Media Group have finally announced its release date.

For those who haven't been paying attention to this one, Insecticide takes place in the world populated with bugs and your objective is to solve a murder mystery that happened in a company.. The release dates after the jump!

It's a good thing Roachy Caruthers is a cockroach, otherwise he'd be dead after getting shot 47 times. If he died, he wouldn't be able to recruit Detective Chrys Liszt, the protagonist of Crackpot Entertainment and Gamecock Media Group's Insecticide. Without a protagonist, there'd be no game, and the screenshots we have for you today wouldn't exist. Check out the screenshots at the full article.

GameCock Media Group's Mike Wilson, one of the co-founders of the independent game publishing company, believes that alternative events will eventually replace the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). And in an interview with Joystiq, Wilson believes that it could end really soon - 2007 in fact, if he were any more specific.

 

"I'd say there's a really good chance this is the last E3. Or anything that's even remotely related to E3. In fact, we're planning a funeral service for E3 on the beach Friday night of this event," said Wilson. Invite only doesn't seem to be GameCock's cup of tea, or an effective way of reaching out to the core audience - the gamers - in a fun, interesting, and all-out way. Wilson continues:

There will be alternative [gaming] events popping up and we will be part of those. Hopefully we can help drive creativity and direction of making an event that's more fun and welcoming than the E3 that needed to die or this, sort of, I don't know what to call it ... the business summit, as it were.

Being an independent entity in a industry that grosses revenues in the hundreds of millions may be daunting, but it appears to look different in GameCock's eyes. After jokingly commenting on a funeral soon to be held by GameCock behind Hotel California - one that isn't invite-only (hurray?) - Wilson hinted at why the indies would think E3 Media & Business Summit won't be as stellar as ESA claims it to be:

It'll be a combination funeral for E3 and a wake (celebration) for originality, creativity and independent development. We think there's plenty of stuff to be excited about out there, all original, all from strong independent developers and that's all the tip of the iceberg. I think there's a real movement, the pendulum is swinging back I think.

Click on Full Article to read more on Wilson's opinion of E3 and the new direction of the game industry.

Crackpot Entertainment and Gamecock Media Group have just released new info on their bug shooter, Insecticide for the DS and PC. Ready to get into the mystery?

Insecticide will take us to a world dominated by... well, bugs. Insecticide has the gritty feel of the classic gumshoe movies plus gameplay of classic adventure titles. Players would need to collect clues from the fully interactive world to solve a murder in a company. Lead detectives of the Insecticide Squad, Chrys Liszt and Roachy Caruthers, will solve crimes in the city using a variety of weapons and in-game items.

"Unique input options" will be made available for the different versions of Insecticide. It was previously reported for the PSP, though there was no sign of it on the recent report. On the other hand, the DS version will be sporting additional features, such as a multiplayer mode (presumably over WiFi).

Rick Stults, Console Chief for Gamecock, had this to say,

The heart of classic detective novels and movies is to get the audience involved mentally, but now via PC and the Nintendo DS we can get players involved in a much more tactile arena. The mouse and the stylus are the key to the 'touch and feel' experience we’re really aiming for with this game and I think that’s something players are really going to enjoy.

Insecticide will be hitting store shelves come holiday season this year. We'll get you more info on this as it becomes available.

 

We talked about Insecticide about a couple of articles back as one of the first games in Gamecock's slate. Now we're gonna take a closer look.

Insecticide takes us to a world where bugs have become the dominant species. Well, uh... the setting is a festering city and a murder takes place at a powerful company. Enter detectives Chrys Liszt and Roachy Caruthers of the Insecticide Squad to solve the crime, rushing headlong into a web of crime (excuse the pun). The bug hunt is on through the city's grimy underbelly and we're taken along for the ride. This detective shooter action adventure game would be making an debut on the PSP, DS, and PC. Crackpot Entertainment (the developer) hopes to port it to film or television.

We'll fill you in on other info regarding Insecticide which is scheduled for release this coming holiday season. Meanwhile, enjoy this teaser vid of the game.

As pervy as this may sound to some, the truth is, we're really not being silly here. We're going to try to do our best to type this down despite some of us here being worried that we may get complaints related to political correctness.

Wideload Games, has recently announced that they picked Gamecock Media Group to publish their next title Hail to the Chimp, which is a self-proclaimed impossible-to-classify party game based on politics in the animal kingdom. The game is set to be released in spring 2008 for next gen consoles.

More stuff from Gamecock after the Jump!