Another new trailer fresh out of San Diego Comic-Con 2011, is that of the sixth season of Dexter, the serial-killer drama. In the trailer we get a glimpse of the plethora of guest stars that will be either helping Dexter kill people or getting killed by Dexter in the final episode. No that’s not a spoiler, it’s just how every season so far excluding the brilliant season 2, have gone. I’d say it’s a fair assumption.
Oh and this time there will be more Jesus and religious connotations. Also let’s not forget, once more because you didn’t boycott it enough. the highly anticipated continued romantic melo-drama of LaGuerta and Batista will flood screens in attempt to convince viewers that anyone besides Michael C. Hall is worth paying attention to on this show.
Check out the trailer below and leave us a comment with your thoughts on the upcoming season of Dexter. Is the series spinning it’s wheels?
A new trailer for AMC’s zombie-thrill ride, The Walking Dead’s second season sprang up at San Diego Comic-Con 2011. Previously a trailer for the second season was released last week. However this is a far deeper look into what is to come, which seems to be complete utter chaos and anything but unity amongst the central group of survivors.
The Walking Dead is a television adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s popular graphic novel series of the same name. The first season aired a total of 6 episodes last year and the dead that walk will be slowly limping their way onto television screens this Halloween. For now, quench your first for blood, guts and even brains with the trailer below. As always let us know what you think in the comments below.
Today seems like a good day as any to release yet another bit of Batman: Arkham City news and in this we see two familiar faces step into the city of Arkham. Though at least one of them has had a bit of a make over. First we are given a nice little introduction to the Penguin who apparently has captured a lot of cops, and also is now British and looks much different than normal in the comics.
Also revealed today was a small tidbit of footage showing that Solomon Grundy has decided to team up with Penguin. Or maybe decided isn’t the right word considering Penguin has him chained up under ground. Never know when he’ll want to go Grundy Smash! on something though so perhaps that’s to keep his club intact. Catch the trailer below.
Epic Games’ Gears of War series has always been very violent and very bloody. So much so that Gears of War and Gears of War 2 were indexed in Germany, meaning that they were not allowed to be released there. However it appears that Gears of War 3 has officially received a USK 18 rating in Germany meaning that German gamers will finally be able to play Gears of War 3 without needing to import it from other countries.
Epic Games president Mike Capps spoke with Joystiq about this approval and he said that they were pleasantly surprised that they were approved, especially considering Gears of War 3 is, if anything, more violent than previous iterations. “To me, Gears 3 is not just more of Gears 2, but tons more. … It doesn’t immediately strike me as something easier to pass through. It’s not a modified version there. We have a “no gore” filter, but we’ve had that for Gears. We didn’t do anything special for Germany this time.”
Joystiq then asked about whether or not they would resubmit the past two games to be rated in Germany now that this one passed and he had this to say: “That’s a fantastic idea. We didn’t try to submit it at all. I don’t think anyone thought to. We’ll give it a shot.”
The Mortal Kombat Legacy Panel at Comic Con 2011 was so HUGE this year it seems impossible to know where to start to reveal all! Anyways, here’s a quick, brief and to-the-point recap of what went down for anyone who missed out on the awesome news:
The panel included:
The Panel included Director Kevin Tanch as well as cast members Jeri Ryan, Michael Jai White, Darren Shahlavi, Peter Shinkoda and Matt Mulins.
Mortal Kombat Legacy is now on iTunes! You can check it out here!
Mortal Kombat Legacy is not just available on iTunes, but also PSN, XBox Live and Machinima.
Mortal Kombat Legacy is Komming to Blu-ray in Fall 2011. Awesome!
Tanch stated he wanted to keep away from wirework as well as other over the top elements whilst filming, and that the reason for the delay of episode nine was because of the amount of CGI rendering.
“I’ve gotten a lot of love… and a lot of hate. But I listen to every comment and take fan reactions into consideration.”-Kevin Tanch, Director.
The highly anticipated season finale, Episode 9: Cyrax and Sektor. Watch it here!
When is the best time to announce new information for Batman: Akrham City, a game that is based off of a comic book hero? Comic-Con of course! Today they revealed that the daughter of one of Batman’s enemies, Ra Al Ghul, will be appearing in Batman: Arkham City. This means that Talia al Ghul, occasional love interest to Batman will be showing up.
Talia will be voiced by actress Stana Katic who plays Detective Kate Beckett on Castle. There has been no information revealed yet as to how much of a part she will play in the game, or if she will simply appear in a few cutscenes but you can see the character model for her below.
When it was announced that Twisted Pixel’s Gunstringer would be released as a full retail game instead of a downloadable title some people grew worried about what they should expect. But it seems that they should have expected a good deal instead of worrying because if you purchase The Gunstringer you will be getting a plethora of extras to go with it.
Buying the game new will result in players receiving two codes which will allow them to download Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja Kinect for free as well as The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles DLC for Gunstringer. The DLC will place players against the son of the first boss in the game, Wavy Tube Man Jr. after he stole a time machine to take revenge against you. Also if you pre-order The Gunstringer you will be able to download two free Avatar props. For all of this you will only need to pay $39.99 when the game is released on September 13th in the US and £29.99 in the UK on September 16.
Mortal Kombat Legacy’s highly anticipated 9th episode was shown at Comic Con today and blew audiences away! The official release date has also been set:Sunday, July 24th at 6pm PST.
However some people just can’t wait, and the episode has already appeared on youtube, watch it below. The episode involves Shang Tsung, Kano and the Grandmaster as they turn Cyrax and Sektor into emotionless Cyborgs in preparation for the Mortal Kombat Tournament, and most likely takes place before the first episode. To test the cybernetic ninja’s abilities, they are sent into combat with a cyborg named Hydro! Who’s Hydro? Find out here!
We highly encourage you to check out Machinima’s Youtube Chanel for a much higher quality version of the video this Sunday, or alternatively buy the episode oniTunes here once it’s released, or grab it on Blu-Ray when it hits the shelf in fall this year. In the meantime, enjoy the episode below!
Ryota Niitsuma, producer at Capcom had a few things to say to Destructoid at Comic Con regarding Marvel vs Capcom 3 and the subsequent Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Niitsuma said that they would have loved to support the original Marvel vs Capcom 3 with DLC but apparently it was out of their control. He said,””After the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 there were plans to release DLC. But, as you know, less than a month after the game was released we had the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.”
Because of this this caused a development lapse and they decided that it would be best to release an entirely new disc with more modes than the original. The added characters are “half and half” between DLC and new characters for UMvC3 alone. He also went on to say that the leaked character list was “a shame” but that “fans of our fighting games, that’s where the real fun is — seeing those characters move and act.” So this means that despite the leak of every character we will see the slow slog of character announcements and trailers like we did with MvC3.
Mortal Kombat episode 9 was shown today during the Mortal Kombat Legacy panel at Comic Con, showing Cyrax and Sektor in combat, as well as an unidentified cyborg. A few photos were leaked, and fans have been arguing since over who it has been since. The issue has been is that the cyborg is a dark blueish-grey. From stills shown online, most fans assumed it was Smoke as he appeared in Mortal Kombat 3, others thought it was just Cyrax just looking another colour due to lighting or perhaps his model was unpainted and others figured it was just Cyber Sub-Zero. However, many of the hardcore fans argued it was Hydro, who many replied with “Who the hell is Hydro?!”
Hydro makes his debut official on-screen appearance at Comic Con in Mortal Kombat Legacy: Episode 9
Hydro Vs Sektor
If you haven’t heard of Hydro, I can’t blame you! He has only officially appeared in the extended universe outside the video games of the Mortal Kombat franchise. Hydro has only officially appeared in the Mortal Kombat comic series Mortal Kombat: Blood and Thunder published by Malibu Comics between 1993. Here he was close friend of Sub-Zero and a fellow Lin Kuei clan member with the ability to control water, some of which were strong waves that were so cold that they could actually freeze the opponent upon contact. Hydro was later killed by Scorpion in the comics as part of his promise to slaughter all of Sub-Zero’s friends and family before killing Sub-Zero himself. However in these adventures Hydro was not a Cyborg as depicted in Mortal Kombat Legacy, but rather a human ninja like Sub-Zero.
Hydro as he originally appeared in 1993’s Mortal Kombat: Blood and Thunder
Hydro became popular as a cyborg, through M.U.G.E.N games such as Mortal Kombat Project 4.1
However this isn’t to say Hydro has never been seen in a cybernetic form before, and this is where things start getting more interesting! Using a program known as M.U.G.E.N, many fan-made fighting games have been made based around Mortal Kombat, as well as characters and fighters as well. One of the most popular characters has been a cybernetic Hydro. This version of Hydro was most popularly seen in the fan made game Mortal Kombat Project 4.1, where he appeared simply just colour-palate swap of Cyrax, with new animations including a few elements taken from the character Glacius from the Super Nintendo adaptation of Killer Instinct. The end result was a blue Cyrax, with fighting elements borrowed from Sub-Zero and Glacius. You can download and play the game here, and check out the embedded video below of Hydro, or even watch it on youtube here!
Shane Warren Jones confirmed he acted as both Cyrax and Hydro for Mortal Kombat Legacy
However this was just all speculation. Nobody had confirmed it, until Mortal Kombat Online interviewed Shane Warren Jones, the actor playing Cyrax AND Hydro. Shane Warren Jones confirmed in the interview that the cyborg was in fact, Hydro!
[MKO]: There have been a lot of reports that you’re playing two characters — Cyrax and Hydro. Is that accurate?
[Shane Warren Jones]: Yes, that is correct. All I can say is that Hydro is also part of the Lin Kuei. [smiles]
[MKO]: What were some of the demands of playing two characters? How did you separate them?
[Shane Warren Jones]: Well, I was lucky in that there wasn’t a lot of info on Hydro, so it was pretty hard to mess him up. It all came down to what Kevin wanted out of me performance-wise. Some of the difficulties would be, what are essentially the different, distinct mannerisms of the individual characters themselves. I tried doing some research on [Hydro] and not very much came up other than, ‘He only appears in a few issues of the comic.’
Hydro has always been a subject of fan art, and has proved to be a popular character even though he’s never been been a part of an offical Mortal Kombat game!
It’s amazing the fact that they let Kevin Tanch direct the web series himself, as Mortal Kombat Legacy was originally just a fan flick made as a pitch to Warner Bros Entertainment. However now they’ve included a fan-favorite that has never appeared in anything as large as this before, and the series is even supported by the father of Mortal Kombat himself, Ed Boon. Mortal Kombat has always been famous for making characters based on odd events, such as glitches (Skarlet), fake rumours (Ermac) and even just making girl versions of popular characters (Sheeva and Frost), so a fan-made interpretation of an unofficial character from a comic book isn’t a huge stretch! It’s things like this that keeps the Mortal Kombat fan base so strong and dedicated, I doubt theres any franchise out there that is delivers this much fan service!
Hydro will make his full debut online appearance alongside Sektor and Cyrax this sunday on Machinima’s Youtube Chanel in Mortal Kombat Legacy: Episode 9!
Another new trailer fresh out of San Diego Comic-Con 2011, is that of the sixth season of Dexter, the serial-killer drama. In the trailer we get a glimpse of the plethora of guest stars that will be either helping Dexter kill people or getting killed by Dexter in the final episode. No that’s not a spoiler, it’s just how every season so far excluding the brilliant season 2, have gone. I’d say it’s a fair assumption.
