GAME TRAILER: Dishonored
Dishonored casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. You are the once-trusted bodyguard of the beloved Empress. Framed for her murder, you become an infamous assassin, known only by the disturbing mask that has become your calling card. In a time of uncertainty, when the city is being besieged by plague and ruled by an oppressive government armed with strange technologies, dark forces conspire to bestow upon you abilities beyond those of any common man.
In Dishonored, creatively eliminate your targets with the flexible combat system as you combine the numerous supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. Pursue your enemies under the cover of darkness or ruthlessly attack them head on with weapons drawn. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make. (more at dishonored.com or on facebook, thx to Ripla for the link)
first trailer released for warren ellis' RED
Warren Ellis, a fantastic grumpy old man of comics extraordinaire and the philantropist of glorious weirdness is speeding down in a tunnel of ROCK and it's high time he did that. His hooks in Hollywood are deep: the first trailer for the movie RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) is out and it's based on his three-part mini-series of the same title about Frank Moses ex-CIA operative who doesn't get the only thing he really wants from his life: to be left alone. So he goes back guns blazing back to ensure he really gets left alone. It's still the early morning hours here, being 17:30 and all that, but I can still sense the panic in what IO9 wrote about the trailer being something completely different. (Which is obvious.) Until we're wetdream-waiting for the screen series adaptation of Transmetropolitan and Planetary, expect a few outbursts of happiness: Global Frequency is being given a second chance to flourish and Gravel is in pre-production.
portal 2: glados is back... for science
E3 brings us surprises on many levels, such as the announcement for Portal 2 with the trailer above. Interested in more technical details and tidbits? Check out the GameInformer hub and funnily enough, Wikipedia.
warhammer 40000: dark millennium online trailer RELEASED!
The God-Emperor of Mankind has given us a ray of hope for the upcoming millennia against the demons of filth, lust and aberrant sexual behaviour. He has also very diligently pinpointed multiple time frames when on a strict geek machismo diet of soft drinks and hard pizza we will clench teeth and chainsword. Yes. Vigil Games and THQ just announced the first trailer for Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online, the MMO game us WH40K fans have been waiting for a long, long time. (Well, ever since Dawn of War was released.) We know that further details about the game will be released in August at the Gamescom event in Cologne. Pictures below come from Swedish game site FZ.se (hit link for a much better resolution) and all this post is made possible by the speed and dedication of my reader Riplakoidase - thx a lot, man!
second trailer for new cyberpunk anime exaella released
Andrew Oudot, mastermind behind a new and relatively obscure SF/cyberpunk anime Exaella has just released a second trailer for his project, revealing more black and green and film grain, a mysterious girl, someone with a weird helmet that apparently came straight from Hellgate:London and HUDs with lots of kanjis thrown in to make sure we are in the future and humanity will suddenly ditch English as a universal intermediary language to switch to Japanese. Which I personally wouldn't mind but anyway. I'm sure the trailer will end up on YouTube, but for the time being you can watch it @ andrewoudot.com and if you need more (but hilariously scarce) info on the project, check out a previous infopost on PlanetDamage.
subheim new album teaser trailer
The video showcases part of the recording sessions, which included steel barrels, glass, various percussion, metal surfaces, real string instruments, acoustic drums, live vocals and a wide range of techniques and field recordings, mixed together into a deep cinematic approach. (myspace, last.fm)
atari teenage riot `activate live` teaser trailer
Directed by Zan Lyons. Video premiere: May 21st, 2010. (via @zanlyons)
christopher nolan's inception: the third trailer
What's the most resilient parasite? An idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it. Your mind has always been the best zone for Constructplay (in fact, mind IS Constructplay) and Nolan has always been one of the best directors to meddle with how your mind works. Been keeping an eye on Inception, his latest movie to be screened in July, a so-called sci-fi actioner in the architecture of the mind.. sounds like The Matrix or Dark City so far. Subconscious security, stealing ideas.. very much something I'd love to read about in a Richard Morgan book. But I am off to finalize some six different articles, so here's what the Guardian tells you about Inception, thank you, disperse, there's nothing else original to read in here. Send me links.
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible – inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime.
predators trailer (2010)
Before getting on to the bandwagon of wetting our eyes diligently about how oldschool film franchises make a comeback: Robert Rodriguez and Hungarian film director Antal Nimrod team up on making a strong name out of the Predator race again. Check the trailer, the whole world is turning on its head in July with Laurence Fishburne narrating our cosmic incapabilities.
deus ex 3 trailer (deus ex: human revolution)
The game takes place during the year 2027, 25 years before Deus Ex. Nanotechnological augmentations have yet to be developed and biomechanical augmentations are the current state of the art. The main character, Adam Jensen, is a private security officer with a company that specializes in these augmentations. He witnesses a chilling attack on his company, and "the conspiracy begins. (...) Five metropolises are included and Detroit, Shanghai and Montreal have been confirmed. In addition, the protagonist will have his own apartment where he may store his secrets and collected information. (...) The trailer ends with "More to come at E3 2010", which indicates that the game will be shown at E3 2010.
tron legacy: new trailer out, software ends up sexy, the industry screams for a new matrix
Jeans, arcades, motorbikes on voltage gridlines - this was The Matrix back in the eighties, when Disney did cyberpunk right. (With Surrogates, they did harm.) Fashionista design orgies, lightning and style over substance - this is The Matrix after the visual department guys can't outdo themselves. We've seen all and the sum of all those parts will eventually grow incomprehensibly huge, especially in iMAX 3D, our eyes will water neon and we will crouch into a zen spider pod until the 17th of December. Rip up IO9 for a still-by-still reconstruction, here's the downloadable trailer in a few HD resolutions and don't forget to check out Flynn Lives.
tron legacy trailer debuts next friday together with alice
Disney's first cyberpunk franchise TRON is making an everything-but-fast comeback: the movie itself is set to debut this December - the second trailer (or more like, the first trailer that's not called TR2N but Tron:Legacy) debuts next Friday with the US release of Alice in Wonderland, sez Wired. According to Kotaku, parts of the 2-minutes trailer are in IMAX 3D, Daft Punk is heavily involved with the production of the film and they might even appear in cameo roles and we'll also see Recognizers and "two Matrix-looking potential bad guys, one fierce looking female and one Space Oddity era David Bowie lookalike playing a little digital air guitar". Check the concept teaser every now and then until the 5th of March.
exaella: a new anime
if morning is black / and memories clean / then dreams comes back / which you've never seen. Above, a less-than-two-minutes long trailer for EXAELLA, a new anime done by Russian film/music cavalier Andrew Oudot. According to him, Exaella is cyberpunk-anime style movie. Actions of this story occurs during a post-apocalyptic time. Millions of people has fallen in lethargy to save remained resources. But few awakened souls tries to rescue the fallen asleep population.
Exaella is planned to be released in the second half of 2010, according to his notes, the creation process is at around 40%, so they still have a hard and bumpy way to go. The trailer looks thick and creepy enough, though, with certain flashes and moments reminding you of Ergo Proxy, Blame! and Ghost in the Shell. The visuals will also appeal to anyone into the demoscene (like those who love Conspiracy or Haujobb). And without getting into more details, check Oudot's ambient/filmscore track on the links below. He's a mean threat!
dubai: xero error, dubai 2010 and the star wars mockups
I wanted you to see Cédric Delsaux's Dubai Star Wars mockups first. IO9 has a longer post for you with all the construction images Delsaux so eloquently filled with Vaders, AT-ATs and Jawas. Among other geeky boytoys.
This satire of the classic Hollywood movie trailer was created by Dubai-based post-production house Rolling Thunder. The tongue-in-cheek clip depicts a futuristic Dubai, complete with skyscrapers, space shuttles and underwater space stations. The creative concept, script and all VFX shots were done in-house, supervised by Hermann Venter and Henrik Friberg. (read io9's comments for the starship homages)
In the future Artificial intelligence [AI] is superceded by Natural intelligence [NI]. The story centers on XE7, a cyborg on a spiritual journey who discovers the unknown. He begins to realize that things in recorded history contradict with facts he has observed in real life and begins to open up his mind to the supernatural. He finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, at a major crime scene, leading him to a Cyber-terrorism scandal and trouble with FACET - The First Authority in Cyber Espionage and Terrorism. Packaged as a slick, futuristic thriller, the compelling storyline keeps you guessing till the end. (xero-error.com, extra info in the article via thenational.ae)
UPDATE 1: Just seeing there was a SF short released in Dubai entitled Alliance, any more infos about that, anyone? (The film, set in the 24th century, begins with a planet under attack from a shadowy extra terrestrial race who launch brutal and inexplicable raids on Earth at the same time that a decades-old anarchist movement plunges the planet into cycles of terrorist attacks and destruction.)
the marionette unit: steampunk ballet torture film
SYNOPSIS: This film is set in an alternate Victorian England, a world where steam-punk technology has developed rapidly and in a world where all creativity, art and individual expression is state-controlled. The Marionette Unit is a theatre show where machine and human have been fused together. A musical machine that resembles a twisted tortured church organ, run with valves, steam and electricity, is connected by a mass of electrical cables to three ballet dancers, who have the wires fused into their bodies. The dancers are controlled by the machine much to the amazement of the Victorian audience.
We follow the story of Smith, an enigmatic character connected to an underground society of artists, hunted by the police. He has come to watch the prize ballet dancer, Georgette try and escape the wired clutches of The Marionette Unit. Will she be able to wrestle free and escape with Smith, or will she succumb to the powerful forces that hold her captive? What follows is a stunning and imaginative display of the human spirit fighting to be set free. (the marionette unit official site via io9)
2009, missing point #17: daybreakers
Daybreakers, a new vampire movie comes out next week. Bloodsuckers are the new tad and they're a bit overplayed by now after True Blood, New Moon and all their kin but then again I might just be jealous of the imminent success I didn't have a direct role in. But anyways. Daybreakers capitalizes on an old idea of David S. Goyer that didn't make it into Blade III: vampires walk the face of the Earth and humanity's the sorry-ass minority until the inevitable logistics hell breaks loose: blood farms can't really cope up with the population needs and they need to find a cure, fast. Not quite sure about how this ties into the otherwise evident problem of the energy/oil/resource crisis, but anyways. It has Willem Defoe with crossbows. You don't really need anything for the first week of the new, luckier 2010.
2009, missing post #7: captain power and the soldiers of the future
It was 1987 and I was an eight-year old kid with an extra schedule in his life, one I took more seriously than brushing the teeth, cleaning the shoes and go to sleep at nine. It was waking up at six to get the best futuristic show available at that time (apart from Aeon Flux, of course): Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It is so oldschool you should all play this in the background today, let it seep back to your already exhausted brainmeat. As for the show - you can all grab the episodes on public video sites here and here or you could just order them right at captainpower.com.
2009, missing post #6: darksiders, you're here to destroy the world... again?
Just when I thought I wouldn't need to buy another Xbox360 game before Mass Effect 2.
2009, missing post #2: openland, on the verge of the comtemplative sway
Quote, Openland is a reflective docufiction loosely guided by issues surrounding micro states and its derivative definitions, unquote. Directed by Patrick Defasten Doan, music by Andrew Coleman. Through intertwining interviews, meta-narratives, and digital landscapes, Openland unfurls a dialogue between consciousness, individuality, and collectivity. If the two trailers here in this post left you craving for more, do check out some extra footage in Defasten's vimeo stream or bite into his Flickr stream.
DEFASTEN believes in remodernist ideals and the nihilist difference of our alleged unified society. In the future, the alphabet does not exist.
Focusing on digital animation, DEFASTEN delineates parallels within information, space, and the urban landscape at the intersection of digital media practices. This direction reflects an interest in the fragmentation of media, contemporary society, and the post-modern condition.
openland.ca
tetsuo the bullet man trailer
Five months ago a couple of sites broke news about the English-speaking sequel of Shinya Tsukamoto's cult classic TETSUO series: here's the trailer for the third installment called BULLET MAN. For more info on Bullet Man, read my previous post.
hardware: fields of the nephilim's carl mccoy cameo (with robot heads)
Look where sifting through endless linkboxes stored in 2009 will get you. British cyberpunk movie Hardware done almost twenty years ago (read CPR's review about it here) features none other than Carl McCoy, frontman and lead singer for one of the best bands that the Goth subculture ever donated to the world - Fields of the Nephilim. McCoy's voice is slightly altered but his eyes and the hat he wears give him away instantly - playing a zonetripper character who's out there in the wasteland, scavening whatever's left for the taking. The movie is hilariously bad but hey, it was the golden nineties, everything was permitted. Below, one of their best tracks, For Her Light off the 1990 album Elizium.
