The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
New Action RPG Game Available May 22, 2013 
 

• About the Game

• Put on your wide-brimmed hat, grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal. Be Van Helsing, monster-hunter extraordinaire and save the day with your charming and beautiful companion, Lady Katarina (who happens to be a ghost, by the way). Explore the savage wilderness in the mountains and the soot-stained brick districts of a grim metropolis twisted by weird science, and don’t forget: you might never know who the real monsters are!

• Main Features:

• Enter a memorable gothic-noir universe filled with monsters, magic and weird science.
• Play through a refreshingly unique story, spiced up with wry humor and snappy dialogue.
• Fight fierce battles against supernatural foes with diverse skills and abilities.
• Use the special abilities and tailor the skills of your remarkable follower.
• Customize your character through a detailed level-up system where you decide which skills and abilities you’ll need for the hunt.
• Modify your skills on the spot with a unique power-up system.
• Learn the secrets of mystical alchemy and forge powerful items.
• Build and develop your hideout and place traps to defend it from waves of terrible monsters.
• Gather the members of the Resistance and decorate the hunter’s lair with valuable trophies.
• Become the greatest monster slayer of all time while playing a co-operative multiplayer monster hunt up to four players.

Anime Central 2013 - SATURDAY

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Anime Central 2013 - FRIDAY

Friday, May 17, 2013

First Music Video Recorded in SPACE

Astronaut Sings Bowie's "Space Oddity"

on board the International Space Station

• [Source: Blastr] As Cmdr. Chris Hadfield prepares to take his final bow and exit the outer-space stage that is the International Space Station, he gives us one last encore.
• There's already no shortage of reasons to love Cmdr. Hadfield. His raw charisma has reignited the world's interest in space exploration. He even managed to grab the attention of both Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock. But his time is running out, and, before he returns to the womb of Mother Earth, he has one last video message to impart, which also doubles as the first music video to be recorded in space.

• Somehow, deep down, we always knew the first-ever intergalactic music video would involve David Bowie. We're glad we were right, and we're thankful it was Hadfield who made it happen.
• Safe travels home, commander.

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Captain Harlock - English Trailer

CG Animated Film Coming this Fall!

• Appleseed's Shinji Aramaki is back at it again, this time tackling anime icon Captain Harlock.
  
  Harlock is the archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien. In his own words, he "fights for no one's sake... only for something deep in his heart". He does not fear death, and is sometimes seen wearing clothing with the number 42 on it. In Japanese culture, the number 42 is associated with death (the numbers, pronounced separately as "four two", sound like the words "shi ni"—meaning "to death").

• In the future, Mankind has achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but is slowly and steadily succumbing to ennui or despair, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Harlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth's oppressors. Their primary oppressors are the Mazone, a race of organic plant-based alien women who explored Earth in the mythic past and are now back to reclaim it.

Get ARISE from this New GitS Trailer

"Ghost in the Shell: ARISE"

The full 90-second trailer for the first installment, "border:1 Ghost Pain," premiered on Saturday.

The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. 

 

During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents. 

 

In addition to the new trailer, the anime's website posted a character relationship chart and published a comment from "salyu x salyu," the performer of the first volume's ending theme song. 

 

The Ghost in the Shell Arise anime, which consists of four 50-minute parts, will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 22, and will then be available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD at retail on July 26.

Images © Masamune Shirow, Production I.G/Kodansha, Ghost in the Shell Arise Production Committee

Katsuhiro Otomo's new anime: SHORT PEACE

• An omnibus of four shorts by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Memories, Steamboy) and other leading anime creators.
  
  The four shorts are:
  
  "Combustible" ("Hi-no-youjin")
  Screenplay, Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
  Character Design, Visual Concept: Hidekazu Ohara (Memories' Cannon Fodder)
  Music: Makoto Kubota
  
  "Tsukumo"
  Screenplay, Director: Shuhei Morita (Kakurenbo, Freedom)
  Original Story Concept, Conceptual Design: Keisuke Kishi
  
  "Gambo"
  Director: Hiroaki Ando (Five Numbers!)
  Original Story Concept, Screenplay, Creative Director: Katsuhito Ishii (Redline, Funky Forest: The First Contact, Taste of Tea)
  Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, .hack, Summer Wars)
  
  "Buki yo Saraba" (A Farewell to Arms)
  Original Story: Katsuhiro Otomo
  Screenplay, Director: Hajime Katoki (mechanical designs in Gundam franchise, Super Robot Wars)
  Character Design: Tatsuyuki Tanaka (Tojin Kit)
  
  In addition, Koji Morimoto (The Animatrix's Beyond, Memories' Magnetic Rose, Noiseman Sound Insect, Genius Party's Dimension Bomb) contributed the film's opening animation.
  
  Short Peace assembles "top creators at the leading edge of Japanese animation, exploring possible future avenues of expression." Short Peace is also the title of a collection of Otomo's manga shorts that was first published in the 1970s. Yasumasa Tsuchiya is producing the shorts at Sunrise.
  
  "Combustible" already debuted in a preview screening in Japan last year, and the Annecy Film Festival in France presented both "Combustible" and "Tsukumo" as nominated works last June. "Combustible" also played at the Platform International Animation Festival in Los Angeles in October. The short won the Grand Prize in the Animation division of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards and the Noburou Oofuji Award in the 67th Annual Mainichi Film Awards.
  
  The omnibus film will open in Japan on July 20.

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Disney animates Marvel's BIG HERO 6

Disney's first attempt at animating comic book heroes...

• [Source: Brian Truitt, USA TODAY] Live-action Marvel Comics characters have been saving the day on the big screen, and now Disney is borrowing from the comics for a new animated action comedy. Big Hero 6 stars Hiro Hamada, a robotics genius who — along with his mechanical pal Baymax — joins a team of rookie crime fighters when a plot arises to decimate the high-tech metropolis of San Fransokyo. The computer-animated movie, which will be released in 3-D on Nov. 7, 2014, is inspired by the 1998 Marvel miniseries Sunfire & Big Hero 6 featuring Silver Samurai, Sunfire and a group of superpowered individuals who come together to save Tokyo. The film marks the first time that Walt Disney Animation Studios has made a movie with Marvel characters since Disney bought the comic-book publisher in 2009.

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Animated Version of "Man of Steel" Trailer

Awesome trailer gets animated!

• Fans have taken scenes from the Animated Superman series and spliced them together with the soundtrack from Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" trailer to create this inspiring piece of video.

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Kid's Version of Star Wars VII (with Puppets)

Now Showing in Awesome 2D!!!!

• With fresh excitement over the announcement of a new Star Wars movie, three children (and some, ahem, adults) set out to make a trailer for a possible Episode 7. Shooting in beautiful Los Angeles including famous Vasquez Rocks and supplementing with VFX and sounds inspired by Star Wars, this short teaser asks the question what a galaxy far, far away be like with Junior Jedi protecting it.
  
  Winner - "Best Group Project" Premiered at Encino Charter Elementary School Movie Night on April 27, 2013.

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The Walking (And Talking) Dead

A Bad Lip-Reading of the Walking Dead

ENDER'S GAME - Official Trailer

Based on the best-selling, award-winning novel...
ENDER'S GAME

• Set in Earth's future, an imperiled humankind that has barely survived two conflicts with the "Buggers", an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders. The world's most talented children, including the main protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School. There, teachers train them in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games including ones undertaken in zero gravity in the Battle Room, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.

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