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Trailer Tracker: Horrible Bosses, Straw Dogs and more

Our featured trailer is
the star-stuffed high concept raunch fest Horrible
Bosses that fits nicely into the slate of R-rated fare that peppers the
summer. Two remakes follow starting with Straw
Dogs as James Marsden takes on the acclaimed Dustin Hoffman role and then
Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse assemble in Fright Night about a young man who
believes his neighbour may be a vampire. Last but not least is the teaser for
the ambitious motion capture adaptation of “Tintin” from director Steven Spielberg.
The secret of the unicorn isn’t the only surprise you’ll find here, read on,
it’s Trailer Tracker.

Dead Island In-Game Footage

The internet was ablaze with talk about Dead Island for months, even though all we had to go on was an animated short film that didn’t actually have any footage of the actual game.  After a few months of salivating over the awesome teaser video, we can finally see what the game looks like in action, thanks to this video that the developer released today.

DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 5.17.11)

It
is a strange week of DVD and Blu-ray releases because plenty were
released, but none are truly remarkable. The best choices that the
Player Affinity staff can recommend are The Hustler and Beverly Hills Cop.
Italian cinema is very well represented but France and Japan also have
offerings this week. If you are looking for something new then your best
bet is either The Mechanic or Thor: Tales of Asgard.

Play Gotham: Impostors – Read Batman: Impostors

In Gotham Imposters, Teams of players square off as either Batman or
Joker impostors, creating their own customized takes on the characters’ iconic costumes
and doing battle in the streets of Gotham City. Pretty awesome, but if
you’ve read you have already read Detective Comics 867 through 870. The
four-issue story Batman: Impostors features a plot inspired by an early concept for the upcoming game.

Written by David Hine with art by the fantastic Scott McDaniel, Batman: Impostors
opens with a Jokerz flash mob descending upon an upscale shopping mall.
There’s a new highly-addictive drug on the streets that gives users a
rictus grin and the urge to create mayhem. It’s a variant of the Joker’s
deadly laughing gas, only without the active killing ingredient.

Smallville – Finale

With only one exception, all major characters that ever appeared on Smallville
were brought back for the series finale. The 2-hour episode first
reminded us why we cared for those characters in the first place. It
then tied some loose ends before (and after) leading us through an epic
and breathtaking — even if slightly imperfect — ending to the saga.

I
think any modern Superman story is bound to put Lois at the center.
It’s a sign of the times and a good one, too. Before this ultimate
episode, the series had already established Lois and Clark were made for
each other, so bringing Lana back would not have been helpful and could
have provided an unwelcome soap angle to a story that already had a lot
going on. That is why I think keeping Lana away made absolute sense. I
liked Chloe and Oliver discussing their own wedding and defining their
relationship without any of the angst that seemed to surround it lately.
The steps taken to bring Lois to reason and rein in Clark — who was
himself starting to doubt — provided for truly beautiful moments and
remarkable dialogues. Clark (to Lois): “You’re not in my way, Lois.
You’re by my side.” I think they did well to take the time to sort
things out. It ultimately gave us the closed-door scene which was one of
the best ever between the two. Welling was good but Durance was simply
perfect in a scene that summed up what Smallville has done with
these two characters over the years. One of my favorite scenes in the
whole episode was the close-up of Lois’s vows. The contrast between her
blatantly unfinished vows and Clark’s perfectly formatted piece spoke
volumes on the differences that make them such a good match.

Sony Now Restoring Online Services

After a
3-week outage, Sony has finally started restoring PlayStation online
services in phases, and will continue their efforts worldwide until
the systems are fully operational. It could take until the end of the
month to fully restore PSN, PlayStation Store, Qriocity and other
services to all its customers, but all U.S. states and other regions of
the world should be seeing partial restoration as the result of phase
one. Sony has been updating a set of map graphics which show the
areas where service is live, along with web updates, and the United
States is now in the green zone. As announced prior to restoration,
all users will be required to download a firmware update and to
change their passwords in order to connect to the servers. This comes
as the first step in ensuring data security and protecting user
information.

Game of Thrones – The Wolf and the Lion

The latest episode of Game of Thrones was the best one yet, and I
think a big part of that was it didn’t feel the need to touch base on
absolutely every character and plot thread. I didn’t even notice until
today that we visited neither Jon at the Wall or Daenerys across the
Narrow Sea, but we didn’t need to, because most of the really important
stuff that happens with them needs to wait a little bit to get going,
and there was plenty going on in Westeros, especially in King’s Landing.
It was easily the bloodiest episode yet, and one that should prove to
anyone wondering that yes, there is a point to all this, and things are
going to get messy.

PlayStation Network restored in the United States and Canada

Has the attack on Sony’s network been getting you down? Well things are looking up because Sony has restored some of the network!
Sony sent out a press release detailing the restoration and Sony’s
Kazuo Hirai gives a round down of what to expect in the video above. The
phased restoration will be on a country by country basis and
begins with America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

Nikita – Pandora

After the revelations of last week’s Nikita,
I was worried for the show. I was worried that the writers had backed
themselves into a corner that would require a far too intricate or far
too stupid story to realistically get out of. Needless to say, my worry
was unfounded. Countless of times in the 22 episode run of the show’s
first season, storylines have developed leading us as viewers to believe
that one thing will happen when something entirely different is on the
horizon. The finale “Pandora” lived up to its legacy and delivered
possibly the best episode of the series in terms of hard-hitting
content, whilst all the while providing the action that many viewers are
looking for. 

The
episode opened following immediately on from last week’s cliffhanger in
which Alex may or may not have just shot Nikita. Pretty quickly it is
revealed to us that this is the case and that the titular hero is dead.
The one bad thing about having a show be named after a specific
character really comes to light in that moment as, despite her clearly
being dead, we all know that you can’t have Nikita without Nikita. When Jack Bauer died at the end of the fourth season of 24,
there was undoubtedly a large percentage of any viewer’s brain telling
them that he can’t possibly be dead, but the tiny seed of doubt that
made you think “did that really just happen?” is what made the moment so
powerful. Ultimately, Jack, much like Nikita, wasn’t really dead and in
fact the two of them had their revival play out in pretty much the same
way. We see in a flashback that after shooting Nikita’s body armor,
Alex quickly discarded her monitoring device and injected her with
tetrodotoxin, a paralytic substance that would make her appear dead
until the Division cleaner flushed her system before discarding her
body.

Namco Announces Soul Calibur V

Namco has officially announced that Soul
Calibur V will be arriving on Xbox 360 and PS3 next year. The game will be
set 17 years after the events of Soul Calibur
IV with some of the main characters having aged significantly and the power
struggle having shifted towards the younger generation.

One of the major differences from Soul
Calibur IV will be the inclusion of a more reactive combat system with
combos that are simpler to perform. The game’s producer, Hisaharu Tago, admits
that in Soul Calibur IV there was some delay in the time it took the on-screen characters
to react to the player pressing a button and he insists that Soul Calibur V will feel “much
lighter, sharper and more elegant.”