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John "Spartan" Nguyen
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Prometheus video shining more light on Charlize Theron’s Meredith Vickers
21 hours ago
by John "Spartan" Nguyen
in Movies
Here’s the latest Prometheus featurette on Charlize Theron and her character Meredith Vickers. She talks about how her character creates tension on the ship. She does remind me of Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien, except she actually tries to do something to prevent a catastrophe from More >
Max Payne 3 comes out on top despite Diablo III hype
21 hours ago
Everyone I know is talking about Diablo III. Hardly anyone ever mentions Max Payne 3, so it was a shock to find out that Max Payne 3 did better in sales compared to Diablo III in the UK. Max Payne 3 has also outperformed Max Payne 2 ten to one.
I still have to check out Diablo III, but I have More >
The Wolverine to shoot in August
22 hours ago
The Wolverine’s production has been delayed for a while, but now Hugh Jackman has confirmed that it will begin shooting in August.
The story takes place in Japan as Wolverine falls for a Japanese woman. The problem is that she’s going to be married to another man, and her family consists of More >
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier official song glorifies war
22 hours ago
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar released his new official song for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier called “War Is My Love.” If you’re a hippie, I suggest you cover your ears because it’s definitely glorifying war. With lyrics like “A warning shot to let em know I’m serious”, “I’m ready for a war,” “I More >
The CW’s Arrow without the Green gets a new preview
3 days ago
Here’s a new preview for Arrow, an upcoming CW TV show loosely based on the Green Arrow. I say loosely because The CW changed his name from Green Arrow to just plain Arrow. And instead of living in Star City, he now lives in Starling City.
At least his real name is still Oliver Queen and he’s More >
Pixar’s Brave gets a first clip
3 days ago
by John "Spartan" Nguyen
in Movies
Here’s the first clip from Pixar’s Brave called “Fergus Shares a Legend.” In the clip, King Fergus tells a story to the family while his kids are mocking him. Merida comes in to join in on the story.
After Cars 2, I’m really hoping that Pixar gets back up on its feet and deliver a movie with a More >
If you hate My Little Pony, this Diablo III level is for you
3 days ago
There were fans who were disappointed with the way Diablo III was shaping up. These fans were complaining that the new game was more colorful and less dark than the previous games. Blizzard’s answer to that is to add a secret level called Whimsyshire, the land of rainbows, teddy bears, and pink More >
Japanese composer Yuki Kajiura to perform at Anime Expo 2012
3 days ago
Anime Expo has announced that Yuki Kajiura will be returning to perform live at Anime Expo 2012 (June 29 – July 2, 2012) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Her blend of Japanese and European style has helped her create some truly unique tracks.
The first time I heard of Japanese composer Yuki More >
Cosplay Spotlight: Princess What’s-Her-Name gets all sexy and heroic
4 days ago
As a fan of Earthworm Jim, I always had a crush on Princess What’s-Her-Name. Hailing from Costa Rica, cosplayer Angela Bermúdez, aka TenshinoSekai, has done a fantastic job of capturing her look. She has made both the Earthworm Jim and Princess What’s-Her-Name outfits. Check out the gorgeous More >
13-year-old does an uncanny Gollum impression
4 days ago
by John "Spartan" Nguyen
in Web
Check out 13-year-old Carter Trump’s Gollum impression. It’s really uncanny and I hope there a future at WETA for him. You hear that Peter Jackson? Hire this guy right now and give Andy Serkis the boot. I’m just kidding, we all love Andy Serkis. At least hire him to do birthday parties.
Carter More >
Listen to Darksiders II tracks from Jesper Kyd
4 days ago
Yes, I have a man-crush on Jesper Kyd. His music is simply astonishing, whether it’s from the Hitman series or the Assassin’s Creed series. He’s been busy working on the score for the upcoming THQ’s Darksiders II game. Kyd has recently released four tracks from the game for our listening pleasure. More >
The winners for the NR Superhero Contest are…
5 days ago
Thanks to Wicked Audio and Fox Home Video for sponsoring our NR Superhero Contest. It was a tough one, but I’ve chosen the winners. One lucky winner gets the Chronicle DVD and the other gets the Wicked Audio Hero headphones. There was a slight confusion for the rules of the contest, so I decided More >
Iron Man 3 to have cyborgs?
5 days ago
With the casting of James Badge Dale as Eric Savin announced, it may be a possibility that we’ll be seeing cyborg-action in Iron Man 3. In the Marvel comics, Eric Savin was turned into the cyborg Coldblood-7 after stepping on a land mine.
We’re not sure if Eric Savin will ultimately become More >
Diablo III has Metacritic users unleashing hell
5 days ago
You can always count on Metacritic users to create a storm when they’re not pleased with how a certain game is. Mass Effect 3 was attacked by Metacritic users mainly for the ending and DLC content.
Next up we have Diablo III and its requirement for you to stay online to play the game, whether More >
Yutani logo in Prometheus viral video
5 days ago
by John "Spartan" Nguyen
in Movies
Verizon has released a new viral Prometheus video for their Verizon Home Monitoring and Control system. In the video, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) pleads with Peter Weyland via video messages to let her lead an expedition to outer space to find out the mystery of man’s origin. She’s been More >
Mark Hamill and Arleen Sorkin return as the Joker and Harley Quinn after Arkham City
5 days ago
Remember all the disappointed fans out there when Mark Hamill said that Batman: Arkham City was going to be his last time voicing the Joker?
He tweeted, “This will be my last, there’s no question about that. But it’s the last hurrah.”
With that tweet it looked like it was true, and fans started to More >
Chronicle Blu-ray review
6 days ago
Chronicle is one of those movies that completely took me by surprise. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was going to be another teenage flick trying to capitalize on the whole found-footage craze while jumping on the generic superhero (Jumper, Push) bandwagon. Boy was I wrong. This is one More >
Video Game High School first episode is online
1 week ago
Freddie Wong and crew have been busy working on a big Kickstarter project called Video Game High School, and now episode 1 is here. There are 10 episodes total and each one will be released weekly. Prepare to witness video game references to the nth degree and all that snazzy geeky stuff all in 10 More >
Tomb Raider gets pushed back to 2013
1 week ago
The Tomb Raider reboot/prequel is a game that I’m really looking forward to, especially since the E3 2011 demonstration looked killer. Even though I enjoyed previous Underworld game, series like Uncharted spoiled the Indiana Jones-type action/adventure genre for me. Crystal Dynamics has a lot to More >
NR Interview: Johnny Yong Bosch’s Eyeshine – Making the Band
1 week ago
If you’re a fan of super sentai, anime or video games, chances are you’ve come across Johnny Yong Bosch. For me, he played one of my favorite characters in anime, Vash the Stampede from Trigun, and also one of my favorite characters in Power Rangers, Adam. If you’re into Bleach, he voiced Ichigo. More >
Prequel to Future Soldier, Ghost Recon Alpha short film, is out
1 week ago
Out of all the gaming companies out there, I think that Ubisoft is the only one that has potential to create its own movie studio if the company wanted to. I mean, Marvel did it. When Assassin’s Creed II came out, it released a short live-action video featuring Ezio’s dad in Assassin’s Creed More >
The Avengers to gross $1 billion worldwide in 19 days
1 week ago
by John "Spartan" Nguyen
in Movies
Disney has announced that The Avengers is set to cross the $1 billion mark globally on Sunday, May 13th, just 19 days after its release. It set a record on its domestic opening weekend with $207.4 million at the box office, the biggest domestic opening ever. The Avengers also set a new second-week More >
Sega, Nintendo and THQ ignore Gamescom
1 week ago
Gamescom is like the biggest video gaming convention in the world that takes place in Germany in August. The event had 270,000 attendees last year. That’s more attendees than even San Diego Comic-Con. It looks like having big numbers of attendees isn’t going to cut it, since THQ, Sega and Nintendo More >
Transforming Transformer in real life
1 week ago
Oh sure, you can buy a Transformers toy and transform it yourself, but can you have a Transformer transform without you ever touching it? Well that’s what 29-year old Japanese student Kenji Ishida did. He created a Brave Robot with 22 servo motors that can transform from a car into a humanoid More >
Tara Strong to be at AM2 convention in June
1 week ago
Today, AM2 has announced Tara Strong as an official guest of honor for the 3-day convention (June 15-17, 2012) in Anaheim, CA, that celebrates manga, comics, anime, animation, and Asian music. You may know Strong for her voice work as Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls), Harley Quinn (Arkham City) and More >
