Sure they have comic books at a comic book convention, but nerds also like gizmos, gadgets and computer peripherals. This year’s New York Comic Convention and Anime Festival had plenty of accessories for your gaming rig, and portable devices. They ranged from the cutesy kawaii, to total nerdcore.
The Games Workshop is the company behind the tabletop games Warhammer, and Warhammer 40k. This franchise is so popular that no table can hold it, and it has branched out into video games, novels, and a feature film. It was also adapted into a series of comic books, but at this years New York Comic Con, the focus was on the upcoming Ultramarines movie and the latest video game adaptation, Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.
Continuing our slow decline of big-name trailers we first look at the clip for Sundance darling Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. We then find The Way Back with Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess in the prison escape drama. Next is the low-budget remake of the equally low-budget 1970’s thriller And Soon the Darkness and finally, yet again due to a lack of new clips, we take a look at a pissed off Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the second clip for Faster.
It is a mixed of release this week, with a variation of action, indie films, comedy, crime thrillers and animated adventure for your viewing pleasure. First Release – Jonah Hex (DVD and Blu-ray) – Leaves of Glass (DVD and Blu-ray) – The Oxford Murders (DVD and Blu-ray) – I Am Love (DVD and Blu-ray) – Arn: The Knight Templar (DVD and Blu-ray) – How to Train Your Dragon (DVD and Blu-ray) (Released 15th October), Re-Release – The Magician (DVD and Blu-ray) – The Darjeeling Limited (DVD and Blu-ray)- Red Dragon (Blu-ray) – Three Kings (Blu-ray) – The Hangover (Extreme Edition) (Blu-ray) – Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (Blu-ray)
If you weren’t a big fan of how Bioshock 2 felt like a cash-in on the rich atmosphere of Bioshock 1, get ready as there is news of a radically new Bioshock title in the works for 2012. Since the August 12th unveiling of Bioshock Infinite, more and more information is coming forward to illustrate the amazing heights it will reach. Emerging from the dank and dying underwater city of Andrew Ryan’s Rapture, Irrational Games takes the focus off Randian Objectivism in action to highlight the perils of propaganda and jingoism set in the floating sky-battlecity of Columbia. Created as a symbol of American exceptionalism at the dawn of the 20th century, Columbia has been corrupted from its original idealism. After it was involved in some kind of international incident, it has been lost to the civilized world for years; that is, until you show up.
The concept of this comic alone will make many people want to at least look at it. I know that’s the reason as to why I bought it. The idea makes the imagination run wild, but there is often a downside to this; the customer may build up such a degree of hype in their mind that when they read it they feel something is lacking. I feel that the first story, Sea Bear fell under this problem, whereas the second story Grizzly Shark surpassed it with flying colors.
As New York Comic Con rolls on, the announcements continue to come in. One of the latest is Marvel’s announcement of two new characters for the hyped Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and both characters are, strangely enough, Capcom fighters. The first is Arthur from the famed Ghost ‘n’ Goblins series, sporting his trademark javelin. He begins each battle wearing his full suit of armor, which can be knocked off with enough hits. It is unclear whether or not the loss of the armor affects his move set or his defensive stats, but if it does it could definitely flesh out the character and make him stand out among the crowd.
Zombies always find us no matter where we hide. They find us in mansions, malls, our front lawns, Louisiana, in post apocalyptic futures and even WWII. And now they have found us yet again in Dead Rising 2, Capcom’s other zombie franchise. As aging motocross champion Chuck Greene, you must save the last remaining survivors from a zombie onslaught in Nevada, clear your name off a terrorist plot and make sure your daughter Katey takes her medicine all within a few days length.
Filled with embarrassingly obvious tangents, plot holes, and low quality 3-D effects, Wes Craven’s latest flick, My Soul to Take, is a muddled and terribly paced failure to thrill or even entertain. In fact, it might just be the most poorly crafted film of the year.
New York Comic Con is upon us, and we know that can only mean one thing, a slew of announcements. Activision certainly didn’t disappoint, revealing that it will be working with Silicon Knights who are best known for the games Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Details were extremely scarce in the announcem
