Video of the Day: Tron Legacy Trailer 2
Disney have today released a new trailer for Tron Legacy, a Tron sequel, funnily enough. Revel in the Daft Punk, the digitalness and Jeff Bridges and somehow, the fact it’s still a 80’s throwback.
It’s in Digital 3D, or whatever that is quite supposed to mean, I’m not sure, but it sure looks good, even if I know practically nothing about it. But I do know we’re going to have to wait all the way till December 17th in order to see it in theatres.
Ignition 6/03/10
On this weeks episode of Ignition we talk about what’s been going on at Infinity Ward (including why it was Matt’s fault) and argue whether or not it spells the end for independent developers in 1 minute, 5000 questions. We also cover all the latest news including: Sony’s degrading game demos; the next Tomb Raider game; the Microsoft Courier tablet; Ubuntu’s re-branding; Indiana Jones 5; Space Invaders: The Movie and much more.
Duration: 64 minutes
Ignition 1/03/10
After a couple of weeks absence, the Ignition podcast returns. After a discussion about Pokemon games, Josh goes through some of the latest game news including the PSP Go, Final Fantasy 7 remake and the worldwide PS3 bug. Matt then goes onto discuss the news from the world of film, involving a updated on the possibility of Bourne 4 and the winners from this years BAFTAs. Stevie then rounds off the news by discussing Tech news such as: Google’s purchase of On2 and Microsoft allowing consumers to choose their browser.
Duration: 60 mins
Ignition 15/02/10
On this weeks Ignition: Josh runs through the latest and upcoming video game releases; we discuss EA’s plans for the financial year; Stevie talks about the latest new from the world of tech (including Google Buzz); Matt discusses the latest Film news including this years Oscar nomination; Josh discusses game news including the three free Command and Conquer games (once he manages to say it); finally in One Minute, 5000 Questions Josh argues that Sony and Microsoft should stop focusing on motion control.
Duration: 90 mins
Ignition 8/02/10
On this weeks installment of Ignition the team fail to find any video game news to talk about so instead: Josh discusses all the content that was been uploaded to the site last week leading to discussion about Fallout 3: New Vegas and Bioshock 2; Matt talks about the latest series of Lost and tries to explain the plot so far to The Others (only Lost fans will get that joke); then Stevie discusses a famous finnish figure: Linus Torvalds who initiated the development for the Linux kernel and has been stirring up the tech industry ever since.
Duration: 56 minutes
It was possibly the biggest adverstising event in the world last night. The US Superbowl, as well as attracting thousands to the stadium, is watched by millions in pubs, clubs and living rooms across the world and therefore is seen by advertisers as a prime target to bombard us with the blockbusters of the advertising world. Sometimes.
This year, all the unfounded speculation of what was going to appear was instead surpassed by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The video game-movie tie in, based roughly on the PS2 era games in the series, is coming to cinema’s soon, promoting action, romance and lots of playing with time.
I didn’t really expect to see this becoming as big a blockbuster as it has been hyped or to be, or it’s just a marketing budget it felt like blowing. Either way, here is the trailer. Now I’m going to go collapse, following a podcast/Video series recording which ended up being crazy long. Expect nothing coherent on GE for quite some time…
Matt gets LOST
About a year ago, I was able to take the moral high ground. Whenever any of my friends mentioned the word “Lost” I was able to scoff at them with a certain disdain. Looking from the outside in, the show is a pile of nonsensical drivel that spends more time causing the viewer to scream “What the f**k?” at the television set then actually engage them in any real drama. In fact, I was always keen to point this out to anyone who dared try and promote the show to me. Unfortunately, the persistence got to me and on the 29th of March, 2009 I downloaded Lost season 1 from iTunes… the beginning of the end.
Video of the Day: Tekken Movie Trailer
Games and movies are dangerous properties when mixed together, they tend to react badly, causing a convoluted mess as the director tries to add his own “style” to the premise of the film, whilst licensed film tie ins are 95% of the time, bargain bin fodder.
So you can imagine when I saw that they were doing the Tekken Movie, based on a fighting game, I was thrown back to thoughts of the Mortal Combat films, which, after the first one which was passable, quickly went down hill. Although this one looks a bit more based in the real world as opposed to fantasy, it looks insane. For starters, it’s taking the IronFist Tournament away from it’s extravagent locations (one word: Budget) in the game to a pretty dull looking cage fighting area. From what I can gauge from the trailer, it’s one of those ‘Take the initiate/novice dude, enter him in a tournament which everyone think’s he’ll lose, watch him surprise everyone and become the king of IronFist’.
The effects, for starters, look fresh out of 90’s action films and whilst all the familiar characters from the game are there, I have yet to see a Bear. A walking, fighting Bear. And without that, the Tekken Movie is nothing to me. Beside that, let’s be honest. It looks trashy, apart from the actual martial arts parts. I’m sure Matt will want to add a second opinion to what he thinks of this. May even persuade him review it…Heheheheh.
Video of the Day: The A Team Movie
I’ve almost had to post this under duress. I mean, it’s the A-Team for crying out loud, how can I not. The only problem being is that I ain’t really the movie guy round here, so makes it pretty tricky for me to build up a worthy discourse about this. It’s got Liam Neeson in it. I recognise him from loads of films. Erm.
Anyway, what I can do is tell you a little bit of information about what is going here. This new reboot, with a whole new cast (no Mohawk Grenades here) and is being directed by Joe Carnahan. It’s still essentially based on the TV series, with a mixture of action and comedy and is supposed to coming out on the 30th July of this year. If you’re struggling to think of the plot, just listen to the trailer and it explains everything within about 30 seconds.
