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If you are on my friends list, you probably have heard me talk about Brink; Bethesda and Splash Damage’s new class based, wall-climbing, objective-completing first person shooter. With all of the beautiful videos (look up the E3 trailer), awesome graphics, and gameplay that looked smooth as silk. I was so ready for this multiplayer epic to come out and shake up the genre as we know it.
Now: It’s iffy
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Looks like it is another week full of awesome gaming videos and far too few movie trailers. We’ve got a trailer for The Freebie, and videos for the games Brink, Hydrophobia, the new Mass Effect 2 DLC, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Portal 2, and Vanquish.
Movies:
The Freebie Trailer – A film in which a couple (played by Dax Shepard and Katie Aselton) toys with the idea that it would be okay if each was given a free pass to pursue a one night stand with someone else.
In this week’s Suggestion Box we’ve got the movie trailer for 127 hours, a trailer for the new AMC TV show The Walking Dead, and a whole heap of video game videos from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Brink, Halo: Reach, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, and Portal 2.
Movies:
127 Hours Trailer – Remember back in 2003 when news broke that a man was forced to cut off his own arm after becoming stuck between a rock and a hard place? Well, now it’s time for Aron Ralston’s story to become even more famous with a movie. Let’s just hope that James Franco doesn’t have to get too disgustingly graphic with that act. Ugh… Just thinking about it is making my goldfish swim back up my throat… Stupid delicious cheddar cheese crackers…
Movies:
Iron Man 2 Trailer – A second trailer for Iron Man 2 has been released, and let me just say the last couple seconds are epic. Check it out here.
Repo Men Red Band Trailer – Though this trailer may not divulge too much more abut the film, the red band status allows for a better depiction of what the movie is going to be like. Definitely watch this version over the standard trailer. Check it out here.
Shelter Trailer – A psychological thriller/horror film in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a man with split personality disorder, and if IMDB is right, these personalities are those of people who have been murdered. Pretty awesome… Check it out here.
Tron Legacy Trailer – I feel like I am missing out on some stuff because I have not seen the original film, but that does not make this trailer an less exciting to me. Check it out here.
Brink Preview – This first person shooter looks to have some of the most fluid movement of this genre, comparable to some of the action adventure games today, like Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia. Check it out here.
Dark Void Official Trailer 3 - If the flight mechanics and vertical combat pan out, then this looks to be a great game to look forward to next year. Check it out here.
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers – For those of you who love So You Think You Can Dance, you may remember a group of dancers that performed on Nov. 2. Well apparently they are doing something on the web that looks to be pretty amazing. Check it out here. And you can check out more of their videos on their youtube channel here.
Lost: Final Season Spanish Promo – Here’s a promo from Spain’s channel “Cuatro“ that will definitely get you thinking. Check it out here.
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