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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

Let’s say you love Prince of Persia but just can’t stomach any more soft-focused publicity images of Chesty Jake. Good news! Ubisoft has your PoP fix sans Gyllenhaal.

Check out this gameplay trailer (complete with developer commentary) and prepare to be enthralled by the Prince yet again. What’s not to love about parkour mixed with elemental control and lots of baddies?

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DJ Finish Him VS Oxvylu

If you missed the DJ Finish Him VS Oxvylu gig last month in Toronto, not to worry. Someone has uploaded a 10 minute clip of it!

It’s weird for me to see myself on video, but I suppose I’ll get used to it. In other news, I couldn’t see anything with those 3D glasses on, but they did look cool. Also: We didn’t really practice before this gig, so pretty much everything we’re doing is ad-libbed.

While a next gig has yet to be booked, we are planning on hooking up in the future for some more creative projects.

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First Trailer For
Guerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution

Today Spooky Squid Games released a teaser trailer for Guerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution, a game I’ve been following the development of somewhat closely. Even though the trailer contains footage from an early build of the game, it still looks like a lot of fun to play.

In it, Molly Greenthumb is a revolutionary who tries to cheer up oppressed and depressed citizens by planting beautiful trees, flowers, and the like. The isometric game has a heavy puzzle element to it, where certain plants need to be placed in specific locations to provoke a desired result. For instance, and the video shows this, you can use a screaming flower to draw the attention of patrolling officers in order to make a run for another section of the map. Other flowers emit bursts of pollen, attracting citizens to the area. It’s a good way to gather up protestors in key locations.

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First Video Footage
From Trackmania for Wii

Judging from how much I loved Trackmania when it was released for the DS, I am certain I’ll spend many, many hours on the Wii version when it is released. In fact, I’m looking forward to it. Today Focus Home Interactive and FireBrand Games released a one-minute long video showing off the game in action.

It’s great to see the game making the jump to Wii so comfortably. All the crazy stunts and smooth driving I expected are shown, along with a short glimpse of four-player split screen multiplayer. It’s also great to get a peek at how the track editor interface will work. Looks really awesome so far!

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Dolph Lundgren
A Little Less Conversation

Kevin’s latest Who Buys This Shit? column recalls fond memories of Rocky IV’s Ludmillo Drago. But as great as I think that column is, I believe his comment on it regarding the current activities of one Mr. Ivan Drago might be the best thing on the Internet right now, and thus totally worthy of its own post.

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Awesomesauce!
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trailer

A longer trailer for Transformers: War on Cybertron was unleashed upon the world recently, showing an extended battle on Cybertron between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons. Let’s bot spot for a moment here: We’ve got Skywarp, Bumblebee (or Hot Shot), Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Trypticon, and Omega Supreme. Plus a whole slew of others. The game takes place millions of years ago, before the fateful voyage that saw the Autobots and Decepticons crash land on Earth in The Ark.

The trailer is in HD and looks freaking fantastic. Not long ago I lamented that the Transformers movies helmed by Michael Bay could have been so much more – and this short trailer is actually better than both those movies. This is The Transformers.

I might be setting myself up for disappointment by getting so into it this early in the game, no pun intended. But the Transformers lover in me just can’t help it. Watch the video and see how amazing it looks for yourself.

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DARK VOID ZERO
Teaser Video Shows Game In Action

Earlier this week I posted about Dark Void Zero, Capcom’s prequel to Dark Void, and its planned release for January 2010.

Today I came across this great video showing the prequel in action. This video, apart from containing a good amount of 8-bit bliss via visuals and chiptunes, continues the myth that the 8-bit game had been produced decades ago. It also includes an updated release date for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions of Dark Void: January 19, 2010.

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Mega Man 10 Trailer!

Have you ever clicked on a link to something you really wanted to see but then the page took forever to load so the anticipation almost killed you?

That’s what happened to me today when theBBPS.com posted news of the Japanese Mega Man 10 trailer. Everything about this is simply joyous to me. The pixel art and music are unmistakably “Mega Man,” as are the stage designs and enemies.

The video’s got an interesting coda to it, showing off something called “Easy Mode” which I would never resort to. If a Mega Man game isn’t obscenely difficult at first, it’s just not a Mega Man game.

On a day when the rest of the Internet is abuzz with the news of the Iron Man 2 trailer (which is still really cool), I am absolutely smitten with the one for Mega Man 10.

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First Look
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

A Trio of Toronto powerhouses (pixel artist Superbrothers, game developer Capy, and musician Jim Guthrie) have teamed up to bring the world a project called Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Today they released the above video teaser for the project, along with the vague description that the project is a brave experiment in I/O cinema, a crude videogame haiku about life, love and death, and a choice cut of myth and dreams. The project’s official site also suggests that more information will be coming December 16, 2009, at 7:03 a.m. EST.

UPDATE: It’s headed to the iPhone.

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COWABUNGA
Turtles Forever Trailer Hits YouTube

The trailer for Turtles Forever, a special TV movie most Canadians won’t get to see legally when it debuts on The CW4Kids on Saturday, November 21, 2009, hit YouTube today. The plot of the animated flick involves the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles somehow teaming up with their contemporary counterparts and their original Mirage Comics incarnations as well. On the flipside, it looks like this has multiple versions of The Shredder in it as well.

I’m not going to lie – as a TMNT fan from the early days this special has me very intrigued. Turtles Forever might turn out to be horrendously bad, but I’ll never know until I watch it.

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