This Week

With plenty of Geek genres to choose from, here are the highlights of this week’s releases.

Wanna see how big of an actor Liam Neeson is? Well you can certainly tell from the two movies he’s in this week. Watch him take on wolves in the snow with The Grey, or aliens on the high seas with Battleship. There’s plenty of Neeson to go around…

In the digital realm, the much anticipated Diablo 3 makes it’s way to both Mac and PC.

Meanwhile in comics Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga continues with its third issue, recommended by the crew from Comic Issues.

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With the geek community consisting of many factions, figured it was more then time to have a place to go when you’re wondering what’s coming out for the week. Please, as with any community, your voice matters. If you see anything missing or just something you would like to hype, feel free to drop us a comment or email us at pixelatedgeek.com.

This Week

It’s time to return to the world of Underworld, with the release of Underworld Awaken. Also a notable mention for movie releases is Gremlins 2: The New Batch. You can never have enough Gizmo.

Meanwhile in gaming, StarHawk makes it’s way to the PS3. In comics we have Batman Volume 1 The Court Of Owls written by Scott Snyder. Then in theaters Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team up for the release of Dark Shadows.

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This year at PAX East, Rooster Teeth Productions, the team behind hit machinima webseries Red vs. Blue, unveiled the teaser trailer to the upcoming season of the show. And, for those of us that weren’t actually in attendance, we’ve had to wait patiently to see just what Rooster Teeth has in store.

Wait no longer. Rooster Teeth has finally released a revamped version of the PAX East teaser trailer for Red vs. Blue Season 10.

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(For anybody who’s wondering, I promise I’ll eventually review a book written in the past five years, it won’t always be these decades-old books. Honest. I promise.)

Like many people I read the first four books of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guild series and stopped there. I’d heard the fifth book, Mostly Harmless, wasn’t as good, wasn’t funny, and that I wouldn’t like the ending. And I’d loved the fourth book so much, especially the ending, so I thought “why ruin it?”

Recently, though, I met someone who seemed appalled that I’d gone twenty years and never finished the series. “You have to read it,” he said. And since he seemed so enthusiastic, I read it. So for anyone who never read the fifth book but wondered “can it really be that bad?” the answer is: no. It’s much much worse.

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If you can’t recall this movie is a reboot of the beloved Arnold movie. (Yeah, you know the one; where he can’t breath and his eyeballs shoot out his skull?)

This time around, it seems a lot has changed, from magnetic cars to, well, no Arnold. That said, the trailer looks pretty awesome. Between this and Prometheus, there’ll be lots of reasons to be at the theaters.

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There is a lot to be said about the Young Adult (YA) genre of literary fiction these days.  The rise of the Harry Potter and Twilight series proved that pre-teens and teenagers still love the written word.  So what happens when another YA fiction comes on the scene and gathers the same obsessive and loving attitude as the other well-known series?  Why, you make a movie of course!  So how did Hollywood do in creating a screenplay for a YA book series that has been known to be the antithesis to Twilight?

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Almost a year after the two-hour pilot was shot we are now able to see what could become the third “modern” Battlestar Galatica series to be aired by the Syfy channel. The trailer promises a ride for the viewers not entirely unlike getting into a rocket sled and drinking an adrenaline and adrenaline cocktail. Blood and Chrome presents us with Luke Pasqualino, from Skins, as William “Husker” Adama on his first duty aboard the Galatica operating an important and secret mission during the tenth year of the first cylon/human war. While the previous BSG spinoff Caprica focused more on the political arena leading up to the conflict seen in Battlestar Galatica, it would seem that Blood and Chrome is delivering the political and religious struggle for power as aside dish to the CGI fueled action. Given that Syfy has begun to run promotions for Blood and Chrome we could see it arrive before the end of this year.

Update: Sadly it looks like the Video has been removed.

Update 2: SyFy is not planning a Blood & Chrome TV Series, though it is considering releasing it as a Digital Series.

Let’s all jump into the Way Back Machine and travel back to the year 2000. This is where a film made it’s theatrical debut and would become a instant cult classic. With its explosive nature (in the form of Explosive GPS Collars), Battle Royale had a way to turn a few heads. Already being compared to the upcoming Hunger Games franchise, Battle Royale makes its official release on Blu-Ray.

With twelve years under its belt, how does the movie hold up? How is the transfer to Blu-Ray?

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So this week the guys decided to take a trip on the high seas and look for buried treasure on Cutthroat Island.

Yeah, what a seasick voyage it was, too.

Join us as we sail towards what is considered one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history. We look to answer the questions: why does Geena Davis look like a dude? Is Matthew Modine the poor man’s Cary Elwes? And does this movie have one of he worst lines in cinema history?

Come, sit with us and listen as we find out!

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As we eagerly await DC Animated latest feature Justice League Doom, wouldn’t you like the inside scoop?

Well our heroes from Comic Issues set out to the city of angels to answer that very question. Join them as they interview the cast and crew from the upcoming Justice League Doom and reveal some very interesting things to look forward to.

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