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Gameplay footage for War on Cybertron

Here is another Transformer Trailer with some gameplay footage thrown in. check out more about War on Cybertron after the jump.



Experience the legendary battle between the Autobots and Decepticons before their exodus to Earth in the untold story of the civil war for their home planet in Transformers®: War for Cybertron™. Two distinct and intertwined campaigns chronicle the heroism of the Autobots in the face of total annihilation and the unquenchable thirst for power of the Decepticons. Play both campaigns in team-based online co-op, or go head-to-head in several online multiplayer game modes. Battle as your favorite Transformer characters in the war that spawned one of the most brutal conflicts of all time. Check out the epically awesome premiere gameplay reveal trailer for Transformers: War for Cybertron

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Variant Covers to Green Lantern #52

DC Comics should be a shamed of themselves for trying to establish this shock moment. If you haven't read Blackest Night #7 the two variant covers to Green Lantern #52 give it away. Sinestro as a white lantern. First variant is drawn by Doug Mahnke...


...and second is drawn by Shane Davis check after the jump to see what DC had to say on the matter.


Spinning right out of the last page of BLACKEST NIGHT #7, I’m proud to present you with these two jaw-dropping GREEN LANTERN #52 cover images, courtesy of artists Doug Mahnke and Shane Davis. Be sure to wipe the drool off your desks.


DEFENDOR!!!!!!!

Bruised and beaten, arm in a sling, neck in a brace, Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson) sits in front of court-appointed psychologist Ellen Park (Sandra Oh). After making her swear to secrecy, Poppington begins to tell the story of his secret life as “Defendor” – yes, that’s an “OR” – spelling is not one of his super powers. By day, Poppington directs traffic around road construction sites, but at night he dons a pair of black tights, a black jersey with a crude “D” duct-taped to his chest, and trawls the streets as his alter ago. As Defendor, Poppington engages in what he believes is a super heroic fight against crime in an attempt to fulfill his unrealized dream of capturing his archrival, Captain Industry – a gun trafficking crime lord who Poppington mistakenly believes is responsible for the death of his mother.

Defendor’s problems with the law begin with his intervention in a trick gone bad. When coming to the aid of Katerina Debrofkowitz (Kat Dennings), an underage prostitute, Defendor tangles with her pimp, Chuck Dooney (Elias Koteas) – a crooked undercover cop. By doing so, Defendor bumbles his way into a criminal underworld, and the stage is set for a showdown with Captain Industry.

Defendor is the ultimate underdog story about the unlikeliest of super heroes. While he may be deficient in super powers, he has a surplus of heart and sometimes that’s all you need to make a difference.




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Final Kick Ass Trailer

Lionsgate has put out the final domestic redband trailer for Kick-Ass, based on the popular comic series by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. Of course, you can watch just any trailer, but in lieu of the movie’s ultra-violent attitude, you can just blow this one up. Or shoot it, stomp it, kick it, cut it, beat it. Whatever your fancy may be.



can't decide if I'm more excited about this or Clash of the titans although I'm sure i will see them both.

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Chun Li vs Juri vs Cammy...FIGHT!

More SSFIV goodness showcasing fan favorite Chun-Li as well as killerbee Cammy taking bumps and bruises as well as dishing out some of their own against new addition to the world warrior tournie Juri.



Super Street Fighter IV is a forthcoming competitive fighting game currently being produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of/sequel to Street Fighter IV scheduled to be released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as a stand-alone product. Set to be released on April 27th, 2010

Halo Legends clip "The Prototype"

the "Halo Legends" episode entitled “The Prototype,” was animated at Bones Studio in Japan under the creative supervision of co-directors Tomoki Kyoda/Yasushi Muraki.



In "The Prototype," human marines struggling to defend a secret weapons research facility from invading Covenant troops are finally ordered to destroy everything rather than let the weapons and valuable navigational data fall into the hands of the Covenant. In a desperate but noble sacrifice, a war-torn officer dons the prototype suit of powered armor being developed at the facility in a last-second gambit to buy time for his soldiers to escape. The episode plays to the strengths of Bones’ impressive ability to represent aerial and mecha-style combat.

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The Heroic Age

Marvel let loose a second teaser image showcasing the heroic age.

The "Heroic Age" is a Marvel Comics storyline scheduled to debut in May 2010, and set to follow the end of the "Siege" storylline, which itself was a culmination of the earlier storylines "Civil War", "Secret Invasion", and "Dark Reign"


The storyline is set to begin in May 2010, in Avengers #1, which will reunite Iron Man, Captain America and Thor as teammates.


Marvel publisher Dan Buckley has said it will be more constrained in its scope than previous storylines:


"We're trying to get a little bit more into the families of publishing, not as line-wide, to provide people with very digestible beginning, middle and end content with top characters and top creators in conjunction with the Marvel Universe. ... It's not going across the line in the books. You’ll see that with the X-Men books, you'll see it with Spider-Man.


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Avengers teaser image THOR

Marvel gives us another teaser image adding the God of Thunder to the Avengers roster. Now you got Thor rounding out your holy trinity of Avengers to also include Cap, and Iron Man. It really was no surprise considering that Siege is supposed to be returned of The Avengers to the Heroic Age.


Red Skull to be Villain in Captain America Movie

We talked yesterday how director Joe Johnston of the new The First Avenger: Captain America was asked about the casting and production of the new movie.


Well, today it would seem that Johnston was making the rounds with the press junkets and a lot of these questions came about but the main bombshell that Johnston dropped was the main villian of the new movie will be the Red Skull.


No other information was revealed but it is still early...


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Daredevil reboot in the works.

Mike Fleming of Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the next action super hero movie to get a remake/reboot is none other than Daredevil.


Regency is mounting the remake with Peter Chernin producing. Writing the redo is screenwriter David Scarpa, which will distribute Daredevil 2.0 or whatever it's going to be called.



New Avengers teaser image

Looks like Clint Barton makes a return to the Avengers in his old school costume as Hawkeye, how do i know b/c there is no way in hell Cap would rotate on the same team as the assassin Bullseye even if he was decked out in Hawkeye garb. With Clint express he has no fear of failure what do you have left after you have died twice.


"The Last Airbender" superbowl spot

This movie is shaping up to be quite a contender. I'm a big fan of the show, only skepticism i have is whether they can pull off the effects as well as portrayed in the animated series. In the superbowl spot we have below we get a taste of the "benders" in action. check it out. look for more info after the jump.



Paramount Pictures has debuted the Super Bowl spot for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender online and you can watch it using the player below. The big screen adaptation of Nickelodeon's animated TV series, opening July 2, stars Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub, Cliff Curtis and Keong Sim.

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Iron Man 2 video game trailer

SSEEEEGA!!!!!! all i have to say is that i hope this second installment of the iron man video game is better than the first, yeah the graphics looked good but the gameplay was ridiculously awful to follow a major block buster movie. Sadly that is usually the fate of many video games based off of movies and vice versa but from the trailer we got going on below it looks like a hot ticket item. check out more info after the jump.



SEGA announced this past summer a continuation of their existing partnership with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. to include Iron Man 2, the video game. The multi-platform title is slated to come out in 2010 along with the Marvel Studios film of the same name, a sequel to the 2008 box office triumph distributed by Paramount Pictures.

“We are thrilled to build on the success of the Iron Man phenomenon and work with Marvel and Paramount on another epic project,” says Simon Jeffery, President of SEGA of America, Inc. “SEGA and Marvel are collaborating closely to ensure we deliver an authentic Iron Man experience.”

The game is currently in production at SEGA Studios San Francisco. SEGA has continued to refine its game engine so that players can expect an entirely new and enhanced gameplay experience. Stay tuned for more information about Iron Man 2, the video game.

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Halo Legends clip "The Babysitter"

Here is a clip from the episode "Babysitter" from Halo Legends scheduled for release Feb, 16th 2010 check out some more info after the jump.



“The Babysitter” focuses on the intense rivalry between the ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) and the Spartans. When given an assignment to assassinate a high-ranking Covenant Prophet, a four-man team of ODSTs must accept a Spartan Sniper to their strike force. Each discipline learns something important about the other as the mission progresses into hostile territory - and old rivalries must be reexamined if the mission is to succeed. The episode emphasizes the differences in ability and style between the two soldier types, and features a few familiar faces – Dutch from Halo 3: ODST and his teammates Private O'Brien, Master Sergeant Cortez and Corporal Checkman.

Produced by 343 Industries, a part of Microsoft Game Studios, "Halo Legends" is a seven-story anthology – told across eight spectacular episodes – that explores the origin and historical events of the Halo universe and its intriguing characters. Halo Legends has been created in the same breakthrough format as The Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight with each individual episode imagined by a cutting-edge, renowned Japanese anime director/animator.

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Anti-Monitor RISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DC comics drop this variant cover on their blog leaving little to the imagination in regards to the next threat from the grave to make trouble for the Corp and this is what they had to say about it.


First the Black Lantern Corps rose from the Crypt on Oa decimating the planet and many Lanterns in their horrific path.


Then Kyle Rayner’s brush with death and a Black Lantern ring resulted in Guy Gardner being blinded by great rage as he transformed into a Red Lantern killing machine.


All this tragedy and devastation led to the collapse of the Green Lantern Central Power Battery.


How could writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason make things any worse for our Emerald Warriors?


How about the return of one of the greatest threats the DC Universe has ever known: THE ANTI-MONITOR?


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More Avengers Teaser images

More Avengers teasers images to boot. two more members are showcased for this May's Avengers #1 relaunch. bad news another relaunch, good news John Romita Jr. he did spectacular work with J. Michael Straczynski on "Amazing Spider-Man" new members in the line we got Spider-Woman a fave of Brian Bendis who is writing the series and Iron Man all decked out in his new armor.





"Invincible" teaser

Image Comics released this teaser image Wednesday afternoon, promoting the March issue of Robert Kirkman's Invincible...


INVINCIBLE #71
written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
art & cover by RYAN OTTLEY & FCO PLASCENCIA

MARCH 17
32 PAGES/FC
$2.99

THE VILTRUMITE WAR BEGINS!
The entire series has been leading up to this! The pieces are in place, the time to strike is now! It’s all out war as the Coalition of Planets finally make its move against the Viltrum Empire--with Invincible stuck in the middle. Things will never be the same after this--and this is INVINCIBLE, so you know we mean it.


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Clips from Star Wars:The Clone Wars

Reunited with a former flame while on a mission of vital importance to the war effort, Obi-Wan Kenobi must defend his convictions and fight for his beliefs – even though taking up arms drives him further from the woman he once loved. The Mandalorian saga takes a personal turn in “Voyage of Temptation,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, February 5 on Cartoon Network.



Traveling to Coruscant aboard the palatial royal vessel of the beautiful Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore, Obi-Wan and Anakin discover a plot to assassinate the powerful political figure before she reaches her destination. As the Jedi and their clones fight to protect the Duchess from a deadly cargo of assassin droids, Anakin discovers that his former Master has a history with the Mandalorian emissary – and that the elder Jedi is not without personal attachments of his own.

“I always wondered what would happen if Obi-Wan had been put in the same position as Anakin – specifically meeting and falling in love with a woman,” says series writer Henry Gilroy. “Would he be able to maintain his vow to the Jedi at the cost of true love? We know how Anakin dealt with this, but how would Obi-Wan fare against the same temptation? I think a lot of people have had relationships that never really got a chance to flourish, and there's always that ‘what if…’ sort of feeling. Even people in healthy, happy relationships ponder their old flames and think about what might have been. I think it really broadens Obi-Wan as a character. He's revealed as a man – someone we relate to because he has romantic feelings like the rest of us, even though he's a Jedi.”




Of course, the vows of the Jedi Order are not taken lightly, and it takes a truly remarkable woman to turn the head and test the heart of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Resolute in her own pacifist ideologies, Satine provides a counterpoint to Obi-Wan’s notions of peace-keeping and conflict resolution.

“Satine’s a formidable woman in all regards – extremely intelligent, incorruptible, passionate and beautiful, with a great devotion to peace. She might come off as stuffy, but that is because she knows she's in a den of wolves and must appear powerful and unshakable,” Gilroy says. “Throughout history, some of the most powerful figures – like Gandhi and Dr. King – were pacifists who literally changed the world by refusing to fight. There's so much fighting in The Clone Wars; when someone is brave enough to speak up to try and stop it, that voice becomes like a light in the darkness, strong and memorable. Satine's resolved to always use peaceful means to end conflicts. The Jedi are peacekeepers, but they carry swords; if they have to use violence to end conflict, they will. That's unacceptable to Satine; she believes that if you bring a weapon to negotiations, you don't want peace. So, she's upset that the Jedi have allowed themselves to be drawn into the war, because it is everything that they are supposed to be against.”

Together, the two consistently challenge one another, each steadfast in their respective beliefs. It is this mutual respect which draws them together, even as their convictions keep them apart.


New Justice League: Crisis on two Earths clip

YOSH! I can;t wait till this hits DVD. DC is bang em out and with a good track record so from the clips I have seen on this it wont disappoint either, and I glad to see Martian Manhunter in his more alien costume. check it out below to see what I'm talking about.



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New International trailer for Kick-Ass

The new Red Band International trailer (means its not for you kiddies) to Kick Ass hit the web today and as usual with these things its a blend of new and old footage, but still build up excitement for the film.



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Flash #6 variant cover

seems like DC Comics is taking a page from Marvel in there unofficial "better late than never" policy and a such a shame to, this series was quite great and completely outdid my expectations. It gave us the return of Barry Allen, an explanation into the speed force, and a sort of Flash united team dynamic, all in opposition of a common foe with awesome if not more powerful ability. For it to be plagued by tardiness just throws off the mystique of it all.


Avengers teaser image

Marvel released this teaser image of the first man outta the gate for the Avengers Rosterand its none other than Captain America but Bucky insead of Steve Rogers. Cap kicks off Avengers #1 and even announced the creative team on the project. Don't' miss the brand new AVENGERS #1, from the superstar creative team of Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr, this May!


Romita Jr. is also drawing the Free Comic Book Day 2010 offering from Marvel, which stars Iron Man and Thor, and serves as a lead-in to writer Matt Fraction's upcoming run on the Thor ongoing.


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Marvel teaser posters for "Second Coming"










"The Losers" cast poster

LATimes interviewed director Sylvain White and producer Joel Silver about the new movie "The Losers" and have released a new image showing off the cast duplicating the graphic novel cover. You can check them both out below




International trailer to Clash of the Titans

We get a new International trailer to The Clash of the Titans, with some old and some new footage check it out below and as always "release the kraken."



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Dante's Inferno animated

Two new interpretations of hell are about to be introduced, both based on one of the most classic: Dante's Inferno. A video game named after Dante Alighieri's 14th Century epic poem, is being released by EA on February 9 simultaneously with Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, from top animation studio Film Roman (part of Spartacus: Blood and Sand producer Starz Media). Both follow Dante as he literally takes a journey to hell and back, visiting the nine circles of the inferno in order to save his true love, Beatrice, who has been taken from him by the devil.

Film Roman, a studio known for it's work animating Fox’s The Simpsons and Cartoon Network’s Marvel Superhero Squad (in addition Hellboy Animated and a prequel film in conjunction with EA's 2008 hit game Dead Space), brought together some of the top anime/animation talent in the world to create the film. Different studios including Production IG (Kill Bill animated sequence), Dongwoo (Batman: Gotham Knight), Manglobe (Ergo Proxy, Samurai Champloo), JM Animation (“Avatar: The Last Airbender”) in fact contributed their visions of the nine circles of hell - Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery - and the end result is amazing.

By employing a range of animation studios steeped in the anime tradition, Film Roman and EA created a completely unique vision of this epic, with each circle of hell having a distinct look and tone. While this gives it a modern twist, the feature still stays true to the original elements of the poem. To highlight the feature’s unique artistic signature, the Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic DVD and Blu-ray™ - being released February 9 by Starz Media company Anchor Bay - boasts six limited edition customized covers specially created by the six participating animation studios.

Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic is sure to delight all gamers and fan boys as well, but voice-over work by Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Victoria Tennant (Legend of the Mummy), Vanessa Branch (Pirates of the Caribbean), and Graham McTavish (Prison Break) as Dante, give this production extra dramatic depth and the literary source material makes this a project that will appeal to an unusually broad range of adult audiences.




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