Showing posts with label Comic Con 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comic Con 2010. Show all posts
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Gadgets: DC Universe Online Comic-Con Trailer
DC Universe Online or DCUO is an MMORPG being developed by Sony Online Entertainment - Austin. Jim Lee serves as the game's Executive Creative Director, along with Carlos D'Anda, JJ Kirby, Oliver Nome, Eddie Nunez, Livio Ramondelli, and Michael Lopez. EverQuest developer Chris Cao is the Game Director and Shawn Lord is also involved, and Geoff Johns is the principal writer.
DC Universe Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in the DC Universe. SOE hopes to make a different kind of MMORPG, with The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction being cited as one of the main inspirations for gameplay. SOE is working to make DC Universe Online more interactive than standard MMORPGs, while trying to keep their key elements, which include a leveling system, raid instances, endgame progression and inventories. The world is mainly shared, public space instead of heroes or villains owning territory. The public space features dynamically-generated content designed for both hero and villain player characters (uniquely created by the player, who cannot choose DCU stalwarts).
It is known that players will choose a city of origin for their character, the only known cities being Metropolis and Gotham City. Another location currently known to be in the game is Arkham Asylum, Gotham City's mental institution for criminals (including a number of Batman's more psychopathic enemies,such as Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, Scarecrow, and Two-Face), you can also go to Justice League of America Watchtower, hangout of the Justice League. The character is given either a Justice League or a Legion of Doom communicator - depending on their choice of playing as either a hero or a villain - and the character's allegiance will affect how the game is played; for example, a hero character may encounter a thug robbing an armored truck while a villain character will instead rob (or, depending on character level, assist with the robbing of) said armored truck. It is also known that player characters have threat ratings which will cause both heroes and villains alike to interact accordingly with the character.
The game is set an unknown length of time before a massive battle between the world's metahumans. Led by Lex Luthor, an army of villains wage war against the heroes, killing Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Cyborg, while Green Arrow and Black Canary were killed offscreen. However all of Luthor's army also falls in battle. Brainiac takes advantage of the chaos to take control of Earth, decimating its population. Lex Luthor, the only survivor, time-travels to the present to warn the heroes of the impending threat.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Comic-Con 2010 Day 4: The Avengers Cast Announced Courtesy of Geek Tyrant
During the Marvel Panel at Comic-Con the cast of all the main Avengers characters and actors were announced! It was announced earlier this week and Mark Ruffalo would replace Edward Norton as The Hulk and now it's officially official. It's also official that Jeremy Renner will be taking on the role of Hawkeye. I'm 100% on board with both of these casting decisions. Here's how it all went down.
After the Thor panel ended the lights went down and and an Avengers logo slowly resolved on screen as Sam Jackson did a voice over as Nick Fury explained the formation of the world’s most awesome superhero team. After it ended Jackson came on stage to introduce the cast of the highly anticipated movie.
He ended up bring out the familiar cast members such as Clark Gregg (SHIELD Agent Coulsen), Chris Evans (Captain America) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor). Then Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man) made surprise appearances. Well, I guess it wasn't really a surprise, we all kin of knew they would be there.
Downey Jr. took over the mic, and commented on the ambition of Christopher Nolan's Inception, then he proclaimed the idea of bringing together the leads of all of Marvel’s superhero films for The Avengers to be the most insanely ambitious movie production yet. It's hard to argue.
Downey Jr. then introduced Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk.
There was definitely a mixed response from the audience regarding Ruffalo's casting. Only minutes before an audience member asked Marvel President Feige about the return of Edward Norton, and it was followed by boos that erupted from the audience when Feige pretty much downplayed the dismissal of Norton.
Joss Whedon then came out on stage with a huge smile on his face! He said “I’ve had a dream all my life, and it was not this good!” He then jokingly added, “and I am going to blow it.”
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