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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Interactive Trailer for Orcs Must Die!

The developers of the upcoming Orcs Must Die! (releases October 5 for XBox Live Arcade and October 12 for PC), Robot Entertainment, have released an interactive trailer on YouTube. I never thought a first person perspective for a tower defense game would work, but this has me thinking otherwise. That's right: I really said it's going to be an FPS Tower Defense game.

Anyway, they shot something like 60 different videos just to make up all the possible choices for the impressive trailer. Check out Part One below.

Exclusive Battlefield 3 In-Game Jet Footage

Believe me: you're going to want to watch this.

PS3's Long Live Play "Michael" Ad

If you'll remember THIS POST then you'll know Sony was going to do a follow up... and here it is:

As a love letter to gamers, Sony has absolutely nailed it. This ad was deep fried in kickass and drizzled with awesome sauce. They even went so far as to get all of the original voice actors to do their respective characters (Nolan North for Drake, David Hayter for Solid Snake, Roger Craig Smith for Ezio, etc) and inserted a metric shit ton of delicious gaming references. See below for what some other folks on the internets have discovered (if some of the pics are tough to see below, make sure you click to embiggen).

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Captain America & Thor

Shot taken while filming The Avengers (releases May, 2012) of Thor and Captain America.

Monday, October 3, 2011

World's Greatest Travelling Band

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

He Went to Jared!

Allow me to state this up front: I can't stand those Jared jewelry store television ads. If you don't know what they are or what they're like, feel free to Google it yourself as I will NOT post a link to them. If I could spend 5 seconds with the ad exec that approved of the campaign, I'd hammer my fist into their face with the fury of a thousand suns.

However, because the ads are so damned awful they give way to such brilliance as can be seen below.

Video Cards Worthy of Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 releases October 25, 2011, and the beta hits our systems tomorrow (September 29th, 2011). How do you know if your video card is up to snuff? Check out this handy chart:

Dead 4 Left

What if the background story of Left 4 Dead were reversed? What if, instead of playing 4 humans trying to survive together in a post zombie-apocalypse world, you played four zombies trying to survive against hordes of humans. I think this would make for an awesome mod or game mode.

Dark Lord Samurai Vader

Most people know by now that George Lucas found a lot of inspiration for the original 1977 Star Wars movie (Episode IV: A New Hope) in Japanese samurai epics. Darth Vader's look, specifically his helmet, was based on samurai kabuto (helmets). Knowing all of that makes the following piece of art that much more interesting.

The artist is Jose Vega and you can find more of his awesome art at his tumblr HERE.

Darth Knight or Dark Vader?

PS3 Long Live Play New Ad

Kevin Butler, Sony PS3 Spokesman and Vice President of Almost Everything, has helped to kick off a new ad campaign for the PS3 called Long Live Play. The other morning, he tweeted the URL for the following video which has sparked a little talk along the interwebs about what the product might be. There's been speculation about a re-do of PS3's Home, a new PS3 store, and even some sort of Smash Bros-esque fighting game using characters specific to the PS3.

What is interesting to note in the video are the Twisted Metal ice cream truck parked outside of the building, the various forms of currency (paper, gold coins, and even a very Little Big Planet-esque glowing orb) in the collection plate, and then there's the weapons rack with iconic guns from the Resistance and Killzone franchises.