Ratchet, Clank and Captain Qwark are headed to the big screen!
Insomniac announced that they, along with Rainmaker and Blockade Entertainment were bringing their popular franchise to theaters in 2015. If you have played any of the Ratchet & Clank’s then you know that they will easily adapt to an animated feature. The humor is second to none and I hope people unfamiliar with the franchise will give the movie a chance when it is released.
A trailer has been released for the movie which you can see below.
Konami officially announced Metal Gear Solid ‘The Legacy Collection’ which brings Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 & 3 HD Collections, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions and the “trophy edition” of Meal Gear Solid 4 all in one handy “buy it for the Snake, suffer through the Raiden” package. It also comes with two digital graphic novels by Ashley Wood.
Metal Gear Solid ‘The Legacy Collection’ will release in June.
Talk about a freaking deal! Relative unknown Nordic Games acquired almost all of the remaining THQ franchises today for the sum of $4.9 million. That includes over 150 titles including the franchises Darksiders, Red Faction and Destroy All Humans. Only two other titles (Homeworld and Drawn to Life) were purchased by other companies (Gearbox and 505 Games respectively).
Talk about a fire sale. I knew all those titles were up for grabs, but I did not expect an unknown company to just buy them all up and for only $5 million! But there is a big, bright, shining upside to this.
Please God, let there be more Destroy All Humans!!!
Want a reason to attend the midnight viewings of Iron Man 3 in IMAX besides the fact that….well, it’s Iron Man 3 in IMAX? Patrons will receive this impressive looking poster to commemorate the movie’s release drawn by comic artist Jock.
Iron Man 3 releases on May 3rd. Check and see if your local theater will be offering these posters here.
The first trailer for the new SyFy show Helix is here and it leaves something to be desired. Now I am going to fully give this show a chance when it comes out, but if we are going by first impressions alone on this teaser then it looks like the black oil from The X-Files is infecting researchers at an Arctic base….and I know I am not the only one that thought the opening words were from a Fringe episode right?
But if it is like any Ronald D. Moore show on SyFy then I will get heavily attached to it only to have them cancel it for budget reasons and have to end early on a quickly put together finale that tries to tie up years of mythos in two hours.
You gotta hand it to Empire Magazine, one of the reasons they get me to spend $10 on a magazine are the wonderful covers they have. Their June issue is no different with a Man of Steel 2-cover set. The first features Henry Cavill in a full shot in Supes attire and the second is Michael Shannon looking menacing and metallic as General Zod. The issue should be on newsstands this Thursday.
Canada may get made fun of for a lot of things, but they have given us William Shatner, SCTV and hockey. And this past weekend at their 4th Annual Video Game Awards they got something else right by naming Far Cry 3 the Game of the Year.
Good job Canada, agreeing with us always puts you on the good side again. Check out the full list of winners below.
It looks like Loki will be leaving Asgard to play the avenging hero Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s reboot of The Crow. The studio has confirmed talks with the actor and Hiddleston even sent in his own makeup test for the character.
Now this is something I can get behind much more than the horrifying rumors of Bradley Cooper trying to smart ass his way through the role.
If Hiddleston takes the part, filming could begin this fall.
Are you, like me, covered with framed pictures on your wall of randomness like comic characters and The Walking Dead, making all the women you bring there instantly turn around and leave?
I’m kidding, we both know that there are no women coming there, so keep filling up that wall space! Here is a great suggestion!
Artist Laura Racero has created these prints of The Avengers with one of there quotes from the movie. Each one is availbale on her website and are reasonably priced. Check out the rest of the prints below and be sure to check out the rest of her site also (she has some really nice Fringe prints too).
We here at Nerd Rating love achievements and trophies. We are admitted whores for them, but when you think about it, the practice of gamerscores is only seven years old with the introduction of the Xbox 360. We have 30 years of backlogged video games that need to be updated! So that is what we are venturing to do. Our new feature called Retro Achievement List will look back at games of the past and give them a set of achievements to strive for even if they may not seem serious.
Alright, here we are. Battletoads. The game that begged to ask “will kids buy a game with roided up toads whipping the ever loving shit out of pigs and rats?” The answer to that was a rather large and emphatic SHIT YEAH WE WILL! The game also fed our underlying addiction for punishment because I am not sure about you, but Battletoads was hard as shit. When you look back at some of the games we played as kids, it’s no wonder some of us grew up with anger issues.
It’s time for Battletoads to get its due with an achievement list of its very own. Radical!
Achievement Unlocked:
*Achievement #1
Spend an excessive amount of time in your room, not playing Battletoads, but staring at a picture of the Dark Queen in your EGM.
*Achievement #2
Get into more than two arguments with classmates that Battletoads is not a ripoff of TMNT even though you know in your heart that it is.
*Achievement #3
Realize that your sophomoric humor comes from playing games that have enemies named Gonnad.
*Achievement 4
When you kill an enemy and your fist becomes large, wonder why the older people in the room laugh when you say “I fisted it!”.
*Achievement #5
Discover new meanings of rage when the vehicle levels boil down to pattern memorization….and your brain does not do that.
*Achievement #6
Perverted Star Wars fans disappointed when the level Wookie Hole does not meet expectations.
*Achievement #7
Break your big toe kicking your coffee table as you yell about every game having a fu**ing ice level that makes you slide around like an idiot.
*Achievement #8
Due to your age, have the complete phallic symbolism of riding giant snakes escape you.
*Achievement #9
Try and get a Battletoads movie Kickstarter going because of TMNT being sodomized by Michael Bay.
*Achievement #10
Write down a list of your favorite video game characters as a kid (Rash, Zitz, Pimple, Toe Jam, Earthworm Jim). Begin to see why your parents took you to see the “special doctor” when you were nine.
We want to hear from all of you also! What achievements would you add to Battletoads? Leave us a comment below or tweet us your responses on Twitter (@nerdrating) and use the hashtag #RetroAchievementList
