God of War: Ascension – Kratos Comes to Life Trailer February 12, 2013

In previous God of War games, the voice actors would be used strictly for their voice.  It would be recorded in a studio and the performances of the in-game characters would be created by the game’s animators.  In later God of War games, motion capture was used, but it would be based on a previously recorded voice performance and motion captured by a separate performer.

In God of War: Ascension, this is no longer the case.  Take a look at this great behind the scenes video and see how the game’s voice actors are preparing for their motion capture debut.

God of War: Ascension is coming March 12th, 2013 exclusive to the Playstation 3.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Bad Day Commercial February 11, 2013

Having a bad day?  Check out this new commercial for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, which could be airing on a channel near you soon!

I must say that I’m a little disappointed in this commercial.  The majority of it is taken up by live action footage of some guy having a bad breakfast.  He burns his toast, cuts himself shaving, and breaks his shoelaces.  Maybe the developers are trying to say that we all have bad days, but unlike us, while Raiden may be having one of the worst days ever, he can do something about it.

Did you catch that little notice at the end?  It looks like Sony will be offering PS3-exclusive DLC in the form of unique VR Missions.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming February 19th, 2013 to the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Behind the Scenes of the God of War: Ascension Super Bowl Ad February 11, 2013

For those of you who caught the awesome “From Ashes” trailer made by Sony to promote God of War: Ascension during this year’s Super Bowl stream, you might be interested to see just how much work went into making it.

Sony released two Behind the Scenes videos about the making of the “From Ashes” video.  If you ever wondered how a commercial is made for such an important property, it’s a great watch.

The first off is this Behind the Scenes video on what went into putting Kratos on the screen.  No, he wasn’t CGI.

This next one details what went into producing the Spartan Army.

God of War: Ascension is coming March 12th, 2013 exclusive to the Playstation 3.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Best Buy Preorder Trailer February 10, 2013

With eight days to go until the release of the newest game in the Metal Gear series, Konami has released this trailer specifically detailing what customers who purchase the game from Best Buy.

Raiden is getting a special white armor which will increase your maximum health item limit.

If you’re interested in what other retailers may be getting, check out these trailers.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming February 19th, 2013 to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Halo 4 Spartan Ops Episode 9 Trailer February 10, 2013

Halo 4’s story continues next week and 343 Industries has just released this trailer for the latest episode of Spartan Ops.  Spartan Ops is a separate cooperative campaign which bridges the gap between Halo 4 and Halo 5.  New episodes are currently being released weekly.

Warning, if you haven’t played some of the recent episodes, there may be spoilers.

Episode 9 hasn’t been released yet, but it should be out some time tomorrow.  Just be sure to download the Spartan Ops Episode 6-10 expansion through the Xbox Live Marketplace.  The download is free to all Xbox Live Gold Members.

Halo 4 is out now exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Aliens: Colonial Marines Contact Trailer Extended Cut February 7, 2013

The release of Aliens: Colonial Marines is less than a week away.  It has been in development for years, and I have been fortunate enough to preview it several times at various events.  It is a direct sequel to the movie Aliens, and probably will serve as a better sequel to that movie than Alien3 did.

To commemorate the imminent release of the game, Sega has just released this extended trailer for everyone to see.  Watch out for facehuggers.

Anyone else breaking out their Alien: Quadrilogy boxed set?

Aliens: Colonial Marines is coming February 12th, 2013 to the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.  A Wii U version will be coming as well.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Unmanned Gears Trailer February 7, 2013

Continuing in the trailer style that we saw last week, Konami released a brand new trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance which detailed more of the enemies that Raiden will be facing in this new game.

Robots have always been integral to the Metal Gear series, in fact its in the name, and now Konami wants to show just how much more advanced our robotic enemies have become.  There has been a major advancement with artificial intelligence in the game’s universe, and it has made unmanned robots that are stronger, faster and far more deadly than anything we’ve seen before.

I can’t imagine what this is going to mean for this game’s boss fights.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming February 19th, 2013 to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Halo 4 Spartan Ops Episode 8 Trailer February 4, 2013

Well, its Monday and that means that there’s going to be another trailer for the newest episode of Spartan Ops, the episodic Halo 4 cooperative campaign which will bridge the gap between Halo 4 and Halo 5.

The eighth episode is up right now, bringing five new levels for all your cooperative desires.

In order to play Spartan Ops Episode 8, you will need an Xbox Live Gold Membership and a copy of Halo 4. You will just need to download the Spartan Ops Episodes 6-10 DLC through Xbox Live. The download is free and takes up about 2 GB of space. If you already downloaded this DLC to play Episodes 6 or 7, you will not need to redownload anything.

Halo 4 is out now exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Game Boys: The Animated Series Launches February 4, 2013

One of the first reviews we did for this website was a review of “Game Boys”, a film directed by Brad Jones, who is known on the internet as The Cinema Snob.  The movie told the story of Scott, a twenty-something obsessed with all things retro and his retro gaming enthusiast friends.  When Scott suffers a bad breakup, his friends try to cheer him up with a gaming night and try to convince him to ask the cute girl from the video store to be his date.  It was a sweet movie with a good heart we enjoyed a lot here on the site.

A few months ago Jones announced that he was going to follow-up Game Boys with an animated series featuring the voice talent of the cast of the original movie and artwork by noted supervillian Andrew Dickman.

Brad Jones has released the first episode of Game Boys: The Animated Series to his website this weekend.  In this first episode, titled “Poker” we see just how some old school gamers play cards…and paticularly what they bet with.  You can check it out here.

If you’re interested in more, you can watch further episodes as they release, as well as the original live-action movie which it spawned from for free on thecinemasnob.com.

God of War: Ascension Full Super Bowl Trailer February 1, 2013

Looks like Sony isn’t waiting for the Super Bowl to show this.  Here is the complete “From Ashes” trailer for God of War: Ascension which will air Sunday, February 3rd during the Super Bowl.

God of War: Ascension is coming March 12th, 2013 exclusive to the Playstation 3.