Tired of all that sissy Christmas music and those hideous knit sweaters? Craving Thor, Transformers and Pirates or the Caribbean instead? Well forget about being nice, bring on the naughty and pour some rum into that eggnog because this ain’t your momma’s Trailer Tracker!
In what has to be one of the strangest PR stunts we have seen, THQ has begun to advertise its newest shooter via a number of online gaming websites. What is so strange about that, you ask? In this case, it is the image THQ has chosen to represent their game with. Instead of flashing up an image from the game, THQ has chosen to, well… We think it is better for you to just take a look at the image and draw your own conclusions.
After waiting for a century in comic book time, Ron Marz has finally written the next chapter of Velocity – and boy was I expecting more from him. Super-speeder Carin Taylor (A.K.A. Velocity) is back with her usual quips, fighting against the clock to save her fellow Cyberforce teammates from a deadly virus her clones infected them with.
EA has dropped a new trailer for Dead Space 2. This is the kind of trailer that sells games, providing hype and excitement but not really too much of an insight. The trailer is disjointed and makes no connections. There’s alot of necromorphs, some death, guts and blood. So, pretty much standard fare for the series. The free fall section totally reminds me of the free fall sections in Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions.
I installed Cataclysm with the expectation (Mostly based on previews and the already introduced interface and gameplay changes) that what I was getting into wasn’t exactly going to be an inspired work of art. Instead, it seems that Activision-Blizzard is heading down the path of least resistance, aiming to satisfy the most common denominator while weakening two of the greatest elements that made the vanilla so great: exploration and teamwork. Sure, lip service is paid to lore and the new zones are given a flashier face, but it’s clear that these sentiments are a façade for a hollow processor of souls that strain to escape them and return to the safe zone of their maximum levels and min/maxing number crunching. While Cataclysm adds a tremendous amount of new areas and material, it is all merely derivative and simplified: in other words, instead of stoking the imagination (although the new instances buck the trend), the game mostly personifies boredom.
I installed Cataclysm with several expectations, mostly based on previews and the already introduced interface and gameplay changes, that what I was getting into wasn’t exactly going to be an inspired work of art. Instead, it seems that Activision-Blizzard is heading down the path of least resistance, aiming to satisfy the most common denominator while weakening two of the greatest elements that made the vanilla so great: exploration and teamwork. Sure, lip service is paid to lore and the new zones are given a flashier face, but it’s clear that these sentiments are a façade for a hollow processor of souls that strain to escape them and return to the safe zone of their maximum levels and min/maxing number crunching. While Cataclysm adds a tremendous amount of new areas and material, it is all merely derivative and simplified: in other words, instead of stoking the imagination (although the new instances buck the trend), the game mostly personifies boredom.
“Spartacus: Gods of the Arena,” the highly anticipated prequel to Starz’ hit original series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” will debut on Friday, January 21 at 10pm et/pt. The six-part series centers around the story of Gannicus, the charismatic gladiator aspiring to become Champion of Capua, played by Australian actor Dustin Clare, and his master, Quintus Batiatus, played again by John Hannah, itching for the chance to rise in status in the Roman outpost town.
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy helped launch the careers of several prominent actors. By the time she played Galadriel, Cate Blanchett was an Oscar nominee but hadn’t connected much with the public, and up-and-comer Orlando Bloom was a complete unknown in Hollywood when stepping into the role of Legolas. Well, that all changed when this adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien-penned novels set the box office on fire: Blanchett now has an even balance of blockbuster and character-driven roles, while Bloom was able to snag some huge paydays for the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Now it looks like the two actors will be making a return to Middle-earth in Jackson’s telling of The Hobbit; Deadline Hollywood reports that Blanchett is officially on board to reprise the role of Galadriel, while Bloom is apparently close to a deal.
I know you’ve been waiting all year for it, and here it finally is, the clip for The Beaver, about a depressed man (Mel Gibson) who wears a beaver puppet on his hand as a way to cope. Intrigued? Well take a peak. It’s Trailer Tracker.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog tells us that television actor Campbell Scott will step into the role of Peter Parker’s father. Meanwhile, Julianne Nicholson might be playing Parker’s mother. Irrfan Khan of Slumdog Millionaire fame and Annie Parisse (TV’s Rubicon) are in discussion to play Nels Van Adder and his wife, respectively
It’s just one day before the new World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm goes on sale. Are you reading this on your phone while huddling in a tent in front of Best Buy, or are you snuggled up at home, defragging your rig, secure that the UPS Overnight guy will bring you that copy of Cataclysm you ordered from Amazon? Regardless, Amazon sympathizes with your obsessive desire to buy the last great game of 2011, so they’re holding a sale on every BUT the new game you want.
