After waiting for a bit of extra time for the next James Bond movie to arrive, it’s almost here. Skyfall is the name and from the looks of this latest trailer, it’s going to be pretty great.
But really, we’re big Bond fans around here so we would see it no matter what. The fact that it appears to be awesome is just a bonus.
Check out the new trailer below. Look for Skyfall to arrive on November 9.
If you have a Kinect, chances are that it isn’t the most used accessory of your XBox 360. Though tons have been sold, there hasn’t been great support of good games for it. In fact, many have been downright disappointing like Star Wars Kinect. The shining light for Kinect has been the Dance Central series.
With the first two titles, Dance Central has proven to be one of the best applications of the Kinect technology in terms of accurate recording of the player’s movements and giving a fun experience that actually utilizes the Kinect technology in a fun way. Now, for the third year in a row, the team at Harmonix brings back its dance craze inspired game with incredible results in the form of Dance Central 3.
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If you’ve never played a Dance Central title before, the premise of the game is very simple. Players stand in front of the Kinect controller and mirror the movements they see of the characters on screen. The angle of their arms, legs and body are all monitored by the Kinect as a player follows the motions on screen. The accuracy of the player’s movements determines how well they score on each dance move. Higher scores mean more stars, which have been trend in Harmonix’s music games for some time now.
Even though the Fantastic Four movies weren’t all that memorable, at least we still have the comics to enjoy. And now, as part of Marvel’s new ‘Marvel Now’ initiative, there’s a new Fantastic Four comic just around the corner.
Written by Matt Fraction with art by Mark Bagley, the new series features, as Marvel puts it:
Four adults. Two kids. One FantastiCar. NOW! Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben – along with Franklin and Valeria – begin their epic journey through all of infinite time and space!
An all-new direction! All-new adventures! This is Fantastic Four NOW!
As usual, Marvel loves exclamation points. Who doesn’t?!!! Well, you get the idea.
Anyway, we’ve got previews for the new comic after the break so go and check them out. Look for Fantastic Four #1 to arrive in comic shops, and via digital download, on November 14.
We’ve brought you info on this movie before. And now, there’s a new trailer out for Tai Chi Zero.
This is what a martial arts epic should look and sound like. Want to watch it . . . now. Fortunately, it opens tomorrow at a theater near you.
As of this moment, the PR on Deadpool may be the most fun of any comic book game for any journalist to cover. Instead of the same standard PR blips from developers or agencies, Deadpool (or someone who is doing a heck of a job impersonating him) is doing his own promotions for the game. With the Deadpool movie in development hell, it only makes sense that the poor guy would have the free time to handle gaming PR.
Most recently, Deadpool announced that he would be including Domino of X-Force fame in his upcoming Mature rated game. The two characters are quite familiar with each other, both being long time associates to both Wolverine and Cable, as well as both being members of recent incarnations of X-Force together at one time. And with Deadpool being (a self described) ladies man, it only makes sense that he would invite one of the finest pieces of Marvel comic booty into his game.
There is no shortage of MMO options for the nerds of the world out there. There is fantasy RPG, Star Wars, futuristic shooters and everything else you can imagine. But what might be lacking is robotic car combat. Enter Transformers Universe.
We caught a glimpse for Transformers Universe last year at New York Comic Con but it was only character models. Though originally slated for 2012, we are just getting a first glimpse of gameplay in the new trailer and screens below. From what the trailer shows, Transformers Universe will be getting pushed back until 2013. As with any game delay though, we’d always rather see a game get the polish it deserves rather than be rushed out the door to meet a deadline and end up feeling unfinished or broken.
In the trailer and screens below, we get a first glimpse of the game in action. Character models are a happy medium between the hyper detail “futuristic” look of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and the cartoonish nature of Transformers Prime. Bot on bot combat is shown, both in melee and firefights and there are some great shots of the vehicles going too.
Like its sister network HBO already has, Cinemax has been moving into the original dramatic series arena. One of its most recent successes is the action series Strike Back, which just finished its second season on the network and will be coming back next year for a third.
Next up for Cinemax is another action series called Hunted. This one stars Melissa George, comes from X-Files writer and producer Frank Spotnitz and will run eight episodes.
The series is set in the world of international espionage with George starring as Sam Hunter, “a skilled, gutsy operative for Byzantium, a secretive private firm involved in global intelligence and espionage. After surviving an attempt on her life that may have been orchestrated by members of her own team, she returns to work, but doesn’t know who to trust.”
We’ve got some video from the series first episode to share with you today. Check them out after the break.
Hunted premieres tomorrow night, Friday October 19th, at 10/9C on Cinemax.
Sites like Kickstarter and Indie GoGo have been offering an avenue for creative people to get a financial boost to start their endeavors. Young and independent artists can now get small projects off the ground based more on the merits of their idea, and less on the ‘who you know’ infrastructure of the creative world.
About a year ago these sites turned a corner as successful game developers who wanted to keep old-fashioned genres alive were able to score huge funding. Essentially starting a Kickstarter explosion that saw a huge influx of independent artists as well as well-known, and likely very wealthy, people looking to spark projects that executives have up to now deemed too risky.
The growing backlash to people like David Fincher asking for 400K from fans has centered around the idea that investing in these large projects that will likely net millions for a studio should be ‘giving back’ to these original funders. Most investments allow the investor a chance to gain profit or at least recoup the investment, but the current legal structure has prohibited sites like Kickstarter from offering a return of investment to the funders. Until now.