EW is reporting that James Spader has been signed to play Ultron for Avengers: Age of Ultron, the sequel to last years Avengers film. Now speculation is running on whether he’ll just be the voice of Ultron, or if Spader will be doing motion capture like Mark Ruffalo and Vin Diesel do for Hulk and Groot. Joss Whedon had made the announcement himself and you can see more of what he had to say after the jump.
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Apparently there was an issue in the system on Monday. This round of voting for You Make the Card 4 has to be redone. Here’s the official statement. Howdy folks, Something went wrong in our pairings last night. We dug back into it and it looks like there was a mistake in the tracking of the names for votes (not for the options displayed) so the numbers were correct but we had them attributed to the wrong pairs. Due to this mistake, the four options we put up to vote yesterday were incorrect. Below is Ethan’s article with the corrected…
Nintendo announced a new product today, the Nintendo 2DS. A new addition to the Nintendo 3DS line, the 2DS will be able to play all of the games available to the 3DS with the same online capability without the use of the 3D function. This allows Nintendo to set the initial price-tag of the 2DS at $129.99, making it a bit more affordable than its fully three dimensional counterpart. The system will launch on Oct 12, just in time for the next generation of the Pokemon franchise, Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, to come out week later. Check out the…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows launched today on both X-Box 360 and PC. Activision has released a launch trailer celebrating that fact and it looks rather awesome. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBskLcgwn8?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] The game follows the story form the current television series, though with a look all its own. It comes out for PS3 the 25th of September and we will be bringing you a review sometime soon.
Funko has released images for a trio of POP! Vinyl figures based on Marvel’s upcoming Thor: The Dark World. The trio look great and you can check them out after the jump.
You Make the Card 4 is well under way as names have been tallied and votes are happening. Monday released the first brackets for voting on the eight potential names for our card (I missed that due to local technical difficulties, sorry). Those have been narrowed down to four, which will show off after the jump.
Ducktales Remastered has released for most of the systems it’s on and will release on Xbox Live Arcade in two weeks. In celebration of this Mondo is returning to Duckberg with six limited-edition posters. The prints will be available tomorrow and you’ll need to follow Mondo on Twitter to find out the actual release times. However, you can take a look at the posters after the jump.
The latest edition to the Final Fantasy franchis, MMO Final Fantasy XIV launched today. Here we have the launch trailer and a press release detailing a number of the new features for the game after the jump. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ai9Hasue8?feature=player_detailpage]
PAX Prime is this coming weekend, which means we should see a ton of gaming news coming down soon, in fact some of that starts today, as Sega has released information on what all they will be bringing to the event. Which is apparently everything. Take the jump for the full release.
Elysium just hit theaters are couple weeks ago. The movie itself looks fantastic, and here you can check out a short segment on just how they got those effects to look so fantastic. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQvKRPXTno?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360]
According to Todd McFarlane his most well known character, Spawn, could be seeing the big screen again some time next year. Take the jump to see what he has to say.
Lobo is getting a redesign for Villains Month in the New52. The new design, by artist Kenneth Rocafort, was revealed on DC’s “What’s New in the New 52?” column on their blog. We’ve got the new look after the jump, as well as a few alternates to see where Lobo could have gone.
With Thor: The Dark World hitting theaters in just over two months, the hype engine is starting to rev up. With that comes all sorts of goodies, in this case a slew of images from the film which you can see after the jump.
We are finally getting to see some footage beyond the initial pilot in the latest Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer, dubbed “The New World.” Take a look and tell us what you think. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4nYzpyxvc?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360]