I wasn’t able to post on the last three days so I have to do that now. A friendly mail advised me that the trailer for Shar­ship Troop­ers 3: Marauder is online. I really like the first film but I felt the sec­ond install­ment was just done to milk the cash cow. I had to do some­thing I usu­ally don’t do: stop play­back. Any­way, the third movie seems quite decent and guess what – Johnny Rico is back. Plus, there’s a char­ac­ter named Dix Hauser. Holy Moly, Bat­man! How can some­one come up with a name like that? Anway, here’s the trailer:

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Boy! This trailer, released on Feb­ru­ary 28, absolutely rocks and if it is indica­tive of what to expect from the movie it’ll sure be an awe­some expe­ri­ence. I recently saw an inter­view with Jon Favreau, direc­tor of Iron Man, in which he told the inter­viewer that there will be three dif­fer­ent suits. There’s Mark I, the one Stark builds to escape as seen in the trailer. Then there’s the Mark II which is the unpainted pro­to­type that allows Stark to learn how to fly and there is, of course, the final model, Mark III. The lat­ter one is the tra­di­tional golden-red suit comic fans are most famil­iar with. For addi­tional infor­ma­tion, head over to Wikipedia.

Just so that you know: the whole mar­ket­ing cam­paign for Iron Man weighs in at a hefty $50m.

A HD ver­sion of the trailer can be obtained here (direct link). It should also be avail­able at Apple very soon.

And the guys over at Ain’t It Cool News got it, of course. Who else? Any­way, Quint is report­ing in from Won­der­Con and he absolutely has some inter­est­ing news. Rest assured, there are no spoil­ers ahead but you may want to con­sider skip­ping over the trailer part at the end of the report. That because he describes the upcom­ing trailer which will be released this Thurs­day and I cer­tainly do pre­fer watch­ing it over read­ing a descrip­tion of it on the net.

Accord­ing to Quint, Jon Favreau, direc­tor of Iron Man, had to fight hard for Downey to get the role of Stark. Well, I didn’t expect that. Although I haven’t read one sin­gle Iron Man comic I’ve been into the Avengers and I think Downey is the per­fect match. Hon­estly, that’s because I can’t think of any other guy por­tray­ing Stark. In any event, Favreau would like to more Iron Man movies and he men­tions “the AVENGER movie”. One can’t be too cau­tious but it sure sounds like it’s already a sure thing that it will be. No mat­ter what it’ll be, I’m eagerly wait­ing for the next trailer!

In Street Kings Keanu Reeves por­trays a tough LAPD cop who, after the death of his wife, has some issues with life. To me, it looks like we’re in for another police drama where the main char­ac­ter has to start to ques­tion every­thing and in turn go against his for­mer col­leagues. Accord­ing to the known facts it’s safe to assume that, when evi­dence impli­cates him for the exe­cu­tion of a fel­low offi­cer, he is set up. The movie is set to be released on April 11th, 2008. Here’s the trailer for you (as usual, a HD ver­sion can be found at Apple):

The cast for X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine grows big­ger and big­ger. This time around, Dominic Mon­aghan – who played Char­lie Pace on the famous tele­vi­sion series Lost, joins the cast. He is to play Bar­nell (Bohusk, a. k. a. Beak?) who has the abil­ity to “manipualte energy and elec­tric­ity”. Monaghan’s char­ac­ter was killed off in the third sea­son of Lost. The sec­ond new­comer is Daniel Hen­ney who will por­tray Agent Zero, an expert tracker with lethal marks­man skills.

Cur­rently, there isn’t much known about the plot. Obvi­ously, the film will trace Wolverine’s past and, even more obvi­ously, it will focus on the omi­nous Weapon X pro­gram, which turns peo­ple into liv­ing weapons.

That’s a ques­tion that has been nag­ging me for quite some time now. PC game devel­op­ers pretty reg­u­larly scream that PC gam­ing is gonna die because of this and that. Lately, they have been blam­ing piracy, phish­ing and cheat­ing for reclin­ing sales. Yes­ter­day, key com­puter hard­ware and soft­ware com­pa­nies have offi­cially announced the newly founded PC Gam­ing Alliance at this year’s Game Developer’s Con­fer­ence (GDC08). The group’s pri­mary mis­sion is to drive world­wide growth of PC gam­ing. They will try to work out ways to bat­tle the afore­men­tioned prob­lems and they’re going to help devel­op­ers to bet­ter under­stand the market.

As if that would change any­thing. Per­son­ally, I’m sick of games that put the gamer into the role of a beta tester. One of the lat­est exam­ples thereof is The Witcher which will even get a new retail ver­sion in May. This will update the game and fix numer­ous issues. OK, they did add some addi­tional stuff but if it is nec­es­sary to re-release a game because it has that many flaws, some­thing smells fishy. I want to buy a game, install it and start play­ing with­out hav­ing to wait for a few patches to make it playable first. As a devel­oper myself I know that it is impos­si­ble to iron out every bug but we’re talk­ing about major issues here.

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