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.
For anyone that doesn’t know, the original Syndicate was a tactical shooter originally released in the 1993 with a few expansions released as well as a second game later in the 90’s. The third game, coming next year, tosses out the idea of a tactical shooter in favor of a first person shooter approach. The game is set in 2069 and the government is no longer run by politicians, but rather large groups known as Syndicates and everyone wants to be “Chip’d” by their respective Syndicate in order to gain access to everything and anything that anyone could imagine. EA has recently released a new trailer for the game and it seems to be shaping into a very interesting experience.
Bioware’s web video series Pulse has revealed some of the new changes made to Mass Effect’s gameplay in the third entry in the series, slated for March next year.
Things of note are the new unique abilities each class is getting. For example: my Shepard, being an Adept, will receive a new pull ability that makes shield carrying enemies easier to take down by making them drop the heavy armored shield they walk around with. Likewise, the more close range Vanguard class, which is known for the teleportation charge attack, will also receive an area effect damage ability that, while making you vulnerable by using your shield as its power source, will likely kill everything it hits.
It seems as if the impending holiday season had put a kibosh on new clips this week (and new releases for this coming weekend as well), but we’ll work with what we have and hope the dawning of December will be fruitful in more ways than one. First off, we have the first full-ish length trailer for the mega-budgeted Disney sci-fi epic John Carter, which aims for an audience I haven’t quite pegged as of yet. Secondly is Being Flynn, the redemptive tale of an author and his son, played by Robert De Niro and Paul Dano respectively. Finally, we bring to you a con-man thriller with Samuel “Mother f$+%&#!”
With barely three months until its release, Disney’s big-budget John Carter adaptation is looking to raise some public awareness with a new trailer released yesterday. Probably the most noticeable change in the marketing has been the increased emphasis on the film’s Martian setting, and the big cast of alien creatures that inhabit it. Rather than the split-second glimpse we got in trailer one, the green-skinned and multi-limbed natives of Mars are on full display here, including Willem Dafoe’s Tars Tarkas, who befriends Civil War vet John Carter following his unexpected interplanetary arrival.
Console gamers have seen the last hurrah for 2011 in terms of new games, but the PC scene can still look forward to several new games in this final month like Star Wars: TOR and Trine 2. Another PC game whose release date was just confirmed is Q.U.B.E. a debut title by indie developers Toxic Games.
In case you’ve forgotten, as you’ve likely been lost in the realm of Skyrim, this game called Battlefield 3 came out. Well the first DLC pack, Back to Karkand, is coming out and EA has been kind of enough to give us a little sneak peak with a brand new trailer. The DLC pack features multiplayer maps from Battlefield 2 re-imagined using the new Frostbite 2 engine. The new trailer shows off the Gulf of Oman map and showcases the return of some vehicles that may be familiar for veteran players, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and desert buggy. There’s also a brand new vehicle in the video. See if you can find it, it’s right around the 1:02 mark.
