If American Idol and Glee have taught us anything, it’s that people really, really, like watching glitzy re-packagings of hit songs from yesteryear. So of course the first trailer for Rock of Ages plays like a free-for-all of catchy ’80s tunes vying for that spot in your brain that can’t remember when the laundry is done, but will keep a Journey chorus on loop for days.
Looking for a worthy charity to donate to this holiday season? How about giving money to help sick children, electronic rights, indie game developers, all while getting yourself a bunch of video games too? You can do all that by tossing a few bucks at the latest Humble Bundle.
The Humble Bundle brings us charity drives/awesome sales several times a year, and now they have five great games for the price of “Whatever you want”. If you give more than the average amount, you’ll get an extra pair of games too! The games are Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, Shank and Night Sky HD for any donation, plus Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+ if you give more than average (about five dollars).
Killing a space warthog with a lightsaber is pretty much the same thing as hitting a magical warthog with a magic sword. It’s neat to see a MMO in a sci-fi setting like Bioware’s upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic as opposed to the usual fantasy world, but the question remains as to what will make this game more than “World of Warcraft, but Star Wars”?
During last night’s season two finale of Boardwalk Empire, a new teaser for the upcoming second season of fantasy-drama Game of Thrones was aired. At 45 seconds in length, it stands at three times longer than the first teaser that we got a few months back, but still reveals little about the new season that finished filming recently. The teaser features a voiceover from Stannis Baratheon (played by Stephen Dillane) reinforcing the facts that the season finale left us with – that he is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne and war is most certainly coming to those that oppose him. Check it out for yourself below and be sure to catch up with season one of the HBO drama before the second season hits in April.
The Spike VGA Awards are a yearly fixture in the gaming industry’s calendar, a celebration of the titles that have really set the gaming world alight and an opportunity for developers to tease and torment fans with footage of their upcoming releases. This year’s awards, held at the Sony Pictures Studios in California last Friday, did not disappoint. A number of the superb games that have been released this year walked away with well-deserved awards, and a number of developers took the opportunity to build even more anticipation for their upcoming games. Without further ado, here’s our (fairly brief) round-up of the Spike VGA Awards 2011.
Epic has revealed their new IP: Fortnite. Details are scarce right now, but as seen in the short trailer, the game features a cartoony art style and looks to be a zombie survival game. According to Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, players will be able to “explore, scavenge, build and survive.”
In a short interview with Mike Schramm [Joystiq], Bleszinski said the idea for the game was pitched internally. “I was a staunch supporter of the idea, because the game is just like a no-brainer — I was like, yes.” Although Lee Perry is the project lead for Fortnite, Bleszinski will be involved providing feedback as the game develops.
In the grand tradition of summer block-blustering, the new trailer for Battleship is ditching the family drama elements and instead sheds light on just how you go about spending $200 million dollars making a board game movie. Take a look.
Still not sure what Gotham City Impostors is all about, and how anyone can turn Batman into a First Person Shooter? Maybe these new animated short films will help explain the game’s premise. Even if you’re already sold on this upcoming downloadable shooter, you’ll still probably enjoy watching these Bat-tastic 90-second cartoons.
‘Tis that time of year again when every online game puts out some sort of “Holiday” update that tasks players with saving Santa. Killing Floor, the co-op zombie survival horror shooter takes a different route each year, and tries very hard to soak your childhood nostalgia with blood.
Just like braving the mall crowds at Christmastime, Joss Whedon unleashes some psychological horror with his genre-bending thriller The Cabin in the Woods. An extraterrestrial prison is the setting of our next clip Lockout, which stars Guy Pearce as a man sent to rescue the president’s daughter after a jailbreak. Last off on another slow week is the second trailer for Oscar hopeful Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which pretty much dares you not to cry. Nothing like openly weeping around the holidays – it’s Trailer Tracker.
