Iron Man: Armored Adventures on DVD

UPDATE: WATCH www.twitter.com/geektown THIS MORNING (Tuesday (Sept 1st 2009) FOR THE QUESTION!

Thanks to the lovely people over at Marvel, we’ve got another competition for you!

In the 5 days running up to the release of  Iron Man: Armored Adventures on DVD, we’ll be giving away 1 DVD a day via Iron Man related questions posted on our twitter feed.

First person to DM or @ reply us the answer to the question each day will win a copy of Iron Man: Armored Adventures on DVD.

First question will go out next Tuesday (Sept 1st 2009) at www.twitter.com/geektown, so sign up now to our twitter feed to be in with a chance to win!

View the full rules of the competition here.

Click here for more information on Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

Summer Glau will be entering Joss Whedon's Dollhouse Season 2

Dollhouse may have Terminated the Sarah Conner Cronicles, but that’s doesn’t stop Summer Glau hopping over the fence and back to the world of Whedon. Summer is set to pop up in the Dollhouse as a character named Bennett for a multi-episode arc, starting at episode 5 of season 2. Bennett apparently shares a past with Echo and has ‘a connection’ to another Dollhouse character…

I’m glad to see Summer back on the tv screen, and even better to see her working with Joss again. It also gives me a great excuse to post this photo of her.

Iron Man: Armored Adventures sees ‘an alternate reality take’ on Iron-Man, with a teenage Tony Stark taking the starring role in this animated series. It’s ‘a show for younger audiences and not necessarily the hardcore comic fan’ says writer Christopher Yost. Looks like perfectly good ‘saturday morning cartoon’ style fun to me.

More information at ironman-armouredadventures.com

Now that Blizzcon 2009 is over, some videos from the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm panel have started to pop up on youtube. There’s a whole bunch of them, but the 2 i’ve posted below show a bunch of shots and explanation of how Cataclysm will change current zones. Things such as phasing terrain, so it changes over time. Alterations to areas such as the Barrens, which is sundered in 2, and actually rather more lush and green in areas.

I’m really looking forward to playing through this expansion. It’s seems to me that it’s going to create a whole new Azeroth to play through. For people like me that love the WoW world, but just can’t face levelling another toon through all the same ol’ content, this could effectively be a brand new WoW. It might not be a WoW 2, but it is looking more and more like WoW 1.5, and that can only be awesome.

Class, New Features & Classic Zone Changes

More Classic Zone Changes & New Zones

Jake - Avatar

Last night I was one of a few 100 people around the UK that got the chance to see about 15mins of footage from James Cameron’s Avatar, in a cinema, in 3D. And first impressions – Wow!

As the showing started, we donned out 3D glasses and were welcomed by a 3D James Cameron. We were then treated to about half a dozen scenes from the first half of the film. The first scene appears to be the main protagonist, the wheelchair bound Jake (played by Sam Worthington), who rolls himself into a briefing, passed a bunch of benches, and towards the sergeant briefing a squad. This may not seem like a lot, but this is the first time i’ve actually seen this 3D technology used in an actual film – I originally saw the ‘new’ style of 3D was about 20yrs ago during The Muppets 3D Show at Disney World in Florida. As impressive as the Muppets were, it wasn’t really designed to show any sort of filmatic impact as such! The depth and detail 3D adds to the picture is quite staggering. I was actually at a viewing in a standard cinema, however some previews where in IMAX, which i can only imagine must have been incredible!

The second scene shows Dr. Augustine (played by Sigourney Weaver) transferring Jakes ‘consciousness’ into his avatar – The avatars in question being giant blue humanoids – Think the lovechild of the golum and a smurf, but grown to 2 times the size of a normal human. The CGI on these creations is extremely impressive. It wasn’t until he stood up and i saw his height, that a actually realised it was CGI, and not an actor in make up. The interaction with the human actors is very impressive.

Jake's Avatar

The next few scenes continue to impress, showing stunning CGI forest environments, and creatures. The last scene shows Jake trying to tame a winged dragon type creature to use as a mount. At one point he gets knocked off the high ledge, and the camera pans over to see him hanging on to the edge. This is an area where the 3D really comes into it’s own, although if you suffer from vertigo, you may want to look away at that point!

My final thoughts – Avatar looks stunning, and seems to use the 3D well, without being overly obvious (i.e. by not going “look over there!” *pointing directly at camera*). As to whether the story is any good, or if the quality of the 3D can be sustained throughout the movie (or without giving the movie goer a headache), remains to be seen. It is a movie that really does need to be seen on the big screen though. I suspect, the bigger the better!

Official Avatar Trailer

So it’s looking like most of the rumours are true. Goblins for Horde, Werewolves for Alliance, Azeroth RIPPED apart, old races playing new classes, new dungeons, flying in the old world, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!.. (okay, i may have got a bit carried away at the end there, but you get the point.)

All rather excited… and damn it, i’m playing WoW again!