Update: The One With the 3DS, Batman, and Necromorphs

A quick update as I am being very much swamped with homework lately. Today we hear news of the Nintendo 3DS with the official release date of March 27, 2011. The official price tag is $249.99. Pretty reasonable as no one here wanted to pay more than $300 for a portable system. Back when the PSP came out it was also $250 so compare it to that in some way. I kinda wish I could go back in time now and save that money for a 3DS, but alas here we are…Here’s a list of games that will be available by June (not counting all of the new downloadable 3DS store and GameBoy Virtual Games):

Pilotwings Resort
nintendogs + cats
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
Madden NFL Football
The Sims 3
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Ridge Racer 3D
Dual Pen Sports
Super Monkey Ball 3D
Thor: God of Thunder
CRUSH 3D
BUST-A-MOVE UNIVERSE
Samurai Warriors Chronicles
Dead or Alive Dimensions
Asphalt 3D
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D
Rayman 3D
Rabbids Travel in Time

It’s a good list, but I will all I would get is Resident Evil, Super Street Fighter IV and probably Pilotwings. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, and Starfox 64 is what I’ll be queuing for. Have any you’re most interested in for the new system?

Here’s a look at the software working on the system including (surprisingly) multi-tasking! It already sounds better than an iPhone or iTouch. I keed Steve Jobs. Or do I? Online play will supposedly be easier since the friend code will be revamped and DSi purchases can be transferred to the 3DS. I don’t have a DSi but I kinda felt like they would allow that anyway. Also if you look around YouTube, there are already videos popping up of Zelda: OoT, Kid Icarus, and Dead or Alive Dimensions gameplay.

 

More or less shortly after the major 3DS news today, 2 new actors where announced for the new The Dark Knight Rises movie. Those two are Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy. Their roles are Catwoman and Bane. Immediately after I was skeptical, but then I saw this comparison:

Ok, yeah I can see it. But with Tom Hardy (he was from Inception), also apparently has been a wrestler before:

I just don’t know. We’ll have to see what badassery Christopher Nolan has for us this time around though.

As a last minute thing, some new photos have popped up from the new X-Men: First Class which are slightly better from the last one. Now with more Kevin Bacon:

I lied, there's only one picture with Kevin Bacon. There are also reportedly some problems going on set, but hopefully it won’t be all bad. At least the photos look better.

Video of the Day:

Now on to the Necromorphs part. EA is doing a kinda sad, but brilliant ad campaign where they place moms from different areas of US and show clips of Dead Space 2 on monitors in front of them. They were horrified. Except for this mom in particular. Prepare to be more creeped out than the game:

Update: There are more X-Men: First Class photos to put out the hellfire of the first photo yesterday:

And the official poster:

Doc, About the Future…

Note: Currently watching Back to the Future and made the post title as Michael J. Fox said it. I am proud of myself.

If you haven’t read the movie news too much, there is a whole lot going on. The most surprising?:

• Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy in the new Spider-Man reboot. I’m as surprised as you are and just about everyone else. I would think she would be better as MJ. I also noticed a bit of confusion as a couple of websites got it wrong and confirmed her as MJ. She's also natural blonde. I don’t understand the world anymore…
• Superman has a new director and is indeed one of Christopher Nolan’s top choices to direct the movie. The man in question is Zack Snyder. Now bare in mind even if this news may not be so bad. I mean Chris Nolan is the producer here and may prevent Zack Snyder from doing so many slo-mo scenes. Or at least limit them as in Watchmen. At least the script sounds really promising. Kneel before Zod.
• This is probably the most interesting news I heard all of today. Apparently Japan is filming their own Paranormal Activity sequel or a “parallel sequel.” I don’t think I have ever heard of this being done. At least not in this fashion. To learn about the whole thing on this you can read about it here.
• Halo is again, trying to be made into a movie as DreamWorks tries to buy the rights for the project. So it again is not dead. I wonder how many times its tried to be reanimated. Stuart Beattie has also said he would like to help out with the project. Please DreamWorks don’t let him.
• In Blu-ray partial news: Director Edgar Wright has made his own Scott Pilgrim vs. the World custom Blu-ray set. It is awesome and I really want it to be real. If it was he may have to pay royalties to Nintendo though. We will just have to wait and hope. For now all we get are awesome blurry pics:

• Will the Hobbit ever be made? Will Peter Jackson direct? Did a greedy society burn down part of the Hobbit set? Will MGM have enough money to make both Hobbit and James Bond 23? Stay tuned as word will come soon what will become of the Hobbit as well as an inevitable documentary will soon be in the works.
• Panasonic made their own ultra portable laptop apparently which will have Linux (not the official OS yet) and will play MMO games. I don’t know how this will be with the small screen since last time I checked MMO’s are very text heavy (i.e. WoW). If Star Wars: TOR works well on this I may be intrigued to buy this.
• I was originally going to make this the picture of the day because of how awesome it is. But I Lol’d at this Medal of Honor paradox:

• I also almost failed to mentioned the new Transformers movie with its subtitle: The Dark of the Moon. Just call it the “Dark Side of the Moon,” to get it over with, and hope Pink Floyd won’t sue.

A New Inception Trailer

I think its amazing. What do you think: