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Win the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen official novelization!

Thanks to Titan Books we have 3 copies to giveaway.

Ryan Reynolds is cast as the Green Lantern

Variety has reported that Ryan Reynolds has been signed up to play the Green Lantern in the upcoming film. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro and Goldeneye) will direct and filming is expected to kick off around January.

I’ve not read much about Green Lantern but this seems like some pretty decent casting to me. Time will tell I guess.

GS Reporter: Nuge

Source: Variety

Misfits – A superhero style comedy drama coming to Channel 4?

Clerkenwell Films has been commissioned to make Misfits, a new comedy drama series for E4. Written by Howard Overman, the 6×60mins series follows a bunch of unruly teenagers on Community Service who develop strange powers after they get caught in a freak storm. The series is the company’s first commission for Channel 4 and filming will begin in the summer of 2009.

Sound interesting could this be what you get if you cross the Inbetweeners and Heroes? I hope so.

GS Reporter: Nuge

Source: Clerkenwell Films

Paradox -A new Sci-Fi thriller coming to BBC One this Autumn

So BBC have announced their new line up for Autumn and the only thing aside from Doctor Who that caught my interest was this five part Sci-fi thriller. The writer Lizzie Mickery was also responsible for the adaptation of The 39 Steps which I enjoyed a lot.

The whole stopping crimes before they happen has been done a few times before but it’s still an  interesting premise and I’m looking forward to seeing how they handle it.

DARK HORSE DELUXE ANNOUNCES THE LATEST EDITIONS TO TIM BURTON’S TRAGIC TOYS LINE!‏

Personally a few of these toy look a little too creepy to be sitting on my shelf. Check out the press release though for all the info.

24 TRACKS CONFIRMED FOR GUITAR HERO

PRESS RELEASE

24 TRACKS CONFIRMED FOR GUITAR HERO® 5′S COLOSSAL ON-DISC SET LIST

I’m a big fan of Guitar Hero although I’m currently without a guitar or a game (long story) so I may pick up one of the earlier versions for cheap or wait to see what number five has to offer. Personally I’m still waiting for the release of Funk Band…I can dream, can’t I?

Section 8 Trailer

We’ll have to wait until Timegate’s cross-platform science-fiction FPS “Section 8″ is released before we know whether or not it fulfils any or all of the promises made about it, but at the very least, the trailer hits a lot of hot geek spots.

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Space battles that may or may not just be cinematics! Space marines! Big guns! Dropships! Freefall! Anti-grav parachute thingies!

Uh… at this point, I’m shouting things out as they appear on the screen, but you get the idea. Take a look at the trailer – we recommend you view it full screen.

And if the game doesn’t turn out awesome, at least we’ll always have the hardcore spacewar trailer action…

GS Reporter: Nick!

Source: Timegate Studios

The Wednesday Comics Experience – A review

It was at the Bristol Comics Convention that my hero, Bob Wayne, one of the VP’s at DC comics claimed that he was the only one to point out that not everyone in the world got their new comics on a Wednesday.  Determined to ignore the onward march of multi-culturalism and globalisation, DC decided to call their new weekly comic Wednesday Comics anyway.  12 issues in an oversized newspaper print anthology.   I love anthologies so I was very keen to pick up my comic today – Oh and its a Thursday.

David takes a moment for a serious read

So this pic is from the DC blog – The Source and shows me reading the comic as if it was a daily broadsheet.  There was something about this that was so much fun, can’t put my finger on it but fun it was.  So the content.

Batman, Kamandi, Hawkman, Deadman, Superman, Green Lantern, Metamorpho, Teen Titans, Strange Adventure(Adam Strange), Supergirl, Metal Men, Wonder Woman, Sgt Rock, The Flash and The Demon and Cat Woman.

What a haul, even if there’s a couple of characters in there you don’t like there’s bound to be more that you do.

The first thing that grabbed me about this comic was

Deadspace & Resident Evil make their way to Wii

So what do you do if you’ve got a survival-horror game franchise that you want to bring to the Wii, but you can’t work out how the hell you’re going to transfer your complex third-person gameplay to the Wii’s trademark “wave your arms around like crazy” control system?

First-person shooter on rails! That’s what!

Capcom did this with “Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles” a couple of years back, and return to the genre and console with the Wii-exclusive “Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles” (as seen in this trailer from the Japan Expo):

And now EA seem, from this new control system video, to have found that that’s the best way to go with “Deadspace: Extraction”

MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS

After Snakes on a plane I didn’t think there was anywhere left to go…boy was I wrong. I’ve just watched the trailer…I have no words. All I’m saying is if I watch this flick I’m going have a lot of beer on standby. I glad it’s being billed as B-Movie so you know what you’re getting.

The DVD is out 10th August for £9.99

MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS IS AN INTERNET TRAILER SENSATION WHICH HAS BEEN VIEWED OVER ONE

STARRING 1980s POP SENSATION DEBBIE GIBSON

From the depths of the ocean they came for the most titanic struggle ever witnessed. Two mythical beasts, defying the laws of nature and threatening the entire of humanity in a vicious battle to certain death!

History will name the encounter: Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus!

80s pop sensation Debbie Gibson stars as maverick marine biologist Emma MacNeil. She witnesses a catastrophic collision with a rapidly melting glacier, unleashing two enormous behemoths trapped in the ice for millions of years locked in terrible, mortal combat!

With the help of a military specialist tasked with destroying these beasts, MacNeil must stop the onslaught of disaster and mayhem. Ships are annihilated, planes fall the sky, bridges crumble, cities flee for their lives and the world stands on the brink of disaster at the fins and tentacles of the most fearsome monsters on the planet.

The fight of a thousand millennia is about to kick off!

Special features:

Bloopers

Trailer

The Making Of ‘Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus’

GS Reporter: Nuge

All New Preview Clip from Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

I just spotting over on the Scifi Pulse website. It’s a clip from the next Doctor Who Special – The Waters of Mars. If this clip is anything to go by it looks like were in for one creepy as hell special.

GS Reporter: Nuge