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Eastern European video games have a very nasty reputation of being suicidally difficult. They are also gaining quite a lot of respect for being on the cutting edge of technical innovation. So it is that after reading about Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason that my curiosity has been piqued. Produced by Ukrainian studio Action Forms, it’s being described as “the Russian BioShock” (although Ukraine isn’t really part of Russia proper :-). Set on a Cold War-era Soviet icebreaker trapped by Arctic ice, Cryostasis is a first-person shooter where the player must not only fight blood-chilling monstrosities while conserving ammo, but must also stave off the elements or else freeze to death. Click here for the official website and GameCyte has just posted a trailer video of the game....

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About twenty-seven e-mails were waiting for me when I got home late Thursday night, all of ’em with the following tantalizing teaser poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…

And according to Seibertron.com, the first glimpse of the trailer is gonna come during the Super Bowl on February 1st. Also confirmed movie spots that will run during the big game are Star Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Angels and Demons, Monsters vs. Aliens, Land of the Lost, the fourth Fast and the Furious, Pixar’s Up, and probably for X-Men Origins: Wolverine....

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According to Yahoo! Babel Fish that means “Awesome Watchmen trailer” in Japanese. And that’s exactly what this is. But don’t worry all the character dialogue is in perfect English…

You know what’s starting to impress me already about Watchmen? It’s all the details that went into such a broad paintbrush for this, the 1985 of a world that is just slightly different from ours. Like the TV showing Nixon getting elected for a third term, and the American fighter jets doing that “eat me” flyover of Moscow as Fidel Castro and the Politburo members watch helplessly.

This could be the biggest movie of 2009. And it’s already coming out on March 6th! And if I’ve got a clear schedule that day, I’m probably going to see it three times, ‘cuz I’ve waited almost twenty years for this movie to be made 🙂...

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For those who don’t know what that is, it’s an annual 24-hour long film festival hosted by Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News, at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. Some consider it to be the most sought-after cinematic event in the country. I got to attend Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 last year and twelve months later there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about the whole crazy experience.

Well, for those of us who won’t be able to go to this year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon, here’s something to assuage our pain. It’s the trailer for Stunt Rock, which is shown every year at Butt-Numb-A-Thon to get the party started…

Is that not the most outrageously cool trailer ever made? 🙂...

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It’s gonna be so weird to finally see the movie adaptation of Watchmen. Ever since this blog’s beginning I’ve been writing about the efforts to get this film made, and usually it’s to share some pessimism about whether it could be done right… or at least done at all. Like yesterday evening I conveyed some concern about Zack Snyder’s admitting that the ending of Watchmen, which he’s directed, is going to be different from the book.

Funny how things can change in just twenty-four hours.

Yahoo! Movies has the second trailer for Watchmen (including high-def Quicktime). And if there’s a single shot in this that’s not in the graphic novel, I’m not seeing it…

Okay, I’ll say that I again have faith in Snyder. That I believe he will indeed pull off the impossible, regardless of whether the squid is in there. Tonally, this looks completely right. Rorschach’s ...

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EDIT: I have found out that this is NOT the second trailer for Watchmen. That one is still due out with Quantum of Solace. This is just some preview footage shown during the Scream Awards last night. Still looks awesome though 🙂

Rorschach’s illegal entry. Dan’s sexual fantasy and mushroom cloud. Dr. Manhattan’s demonstration on the tank. Adrian’s Antarctic retreat. Laurie’s realization. The blood-stained smiley-face button…

This will be the Citizen Kane of comic book movies when it comes out in March.

So here’s the second trailer for Watchmen:

And speaking of the Watchmen movie, there are reports that the ending has been altered significantly from the book. Namely, (SPOILER highlight to read) that the “alien” cooked up by Ozymandias to destroy New York City in his mad bid for world peace has been replaced with a scheme involving free energy and Dr. Manhattan. But a ...

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I have a confession to make…

Ever since first playing it this past March, I have become absolutely addicted to the video game BioShock.

Actually, “addicted” isn’t the right word at all. “Enchanted”, “enthralled”, “captivated”, or something to that effect would be much more apropos. The game finally arrived on PlayStation 3 this past week and owners of that system are finally getting to discover what Xbox 360 folks (like me) have known for some time now: that BioShock might be the most beautiful and thought-provoking video game yet produced. Let’s face it: a game that examines with cold brutality what human nature is capable of doing in the absence of God and higher morality is certainly going to be cut from a different cloth than the rest.

So I’ve played BioShock all the way through three times now, always getting to the “good” ending ‘cuz I just can’t ...

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