The Green Hor­net trailer is sweep­ing the blo­gos­phere as it has been made avail­able for pub­lic con­sump­tion. Slated for release in Jan­u­ary 2011 the film stars Seth Rogen as the title char­ac­ter and Jay Chou as his manser­vant Kato. The Green Hor­net will also fea­ture Cameron Diaz and Chrisoph Waltz. While I like Rogen he wouldn’t have been my first choice for this movie so I guess this should make it interesting.

Unfor­tu­nately, the trailer doesn’t look very remark­able. I had to laugh a bit though, so let’s hope for the best. I’m con­fi­dent Rogen will get the part of Britt Reid right but I’m not so sure about the other part. Well, we’ll have to wait until the movie is released, but until then, enjoy the trailer:

PlaySta­tion Plus
© 2010, Sony

Dur­ing E3 Sony announced that it will launch a new pre­mium sub­scrip­tion ser­vice called PlaySta­tion Plus on June 29th. The PlaySta­tion Net­work as we know it will still be free to join and all the cur­rent fea­tures will remain free. PlaySta­tion Plus expands on the ser­vice already in place and offers loads of con­tent to sub­scribers. Start­ing on June 29th Sony will offer a one year or 90-day mem­ber­ship from PlaySta­tion Store.

As an incen­tive they throw in a full copy of Lit­tleBig­Planet if you sign up for a one year mem­ber­ship between June 29th and August 3rd. The one year sub­scrip­tion will be avail­able for €49.99 while three months will cost you €14.99. What do we get for our money?

Sony says that mem­bers will get their hands on at least four games a month at no extra charge. That sounds good but the four games will be com­prised of one PSN game, two minis and one PS one clas­sics. Sub­scribers also get pre­mium avatars and dynamic themes each month as well as dis­counts on loads of PlaySta­tion Store con­tent. The dis­counts will change each month as well.

The pre­mium fea­ture also allows for full game tri­als. Mem­bers can down­load a full copy of a game and play it for a cer­tain amount of time as if they owned it. The time­frame depends on the game but you should have approx­i­mately one hour to check out the game. If you decide to buy the game, your progress and tro­phies will all be unlocked so there’s no need to start again.

The most use­ful perk, how­ever, seems to be what Sony calls auto­matic down­load. Sub­scribers can set their PS3 to auto­mat­i­cally receive game and firmware updates, and down­load game demos. All you have to do is to set the time when you want to receive them and your PS3 will wake up and down­load every­thing. That sounds really use­ful to me.

Check out PlaySta­tion Plus and see for your­self. You need at least ver­sion 3.40 of the PS3 sys­tem soft­ware to make it work. I think that’s just what I need. Per­haps updates will get a bit faster then.

Word­Press 3.0 – code­name Thelo­nious – is now avail­able for down­load or auto­matic upgrade respec­tively. The 13th major release includes a new default theme called Twenty Ten, intro­duces new APIs, and merges MU and Word­Press. Even bet­ter, the devel­op­ers man­aged to cre­ate a lighter inter­face and stuff in 1,217 bug fixes and fea­ture enhance­ments. What I like most so far is the new bulk update for plu­g­ins. A com­pre­hen­sive list of the improve­ments is avail­able on 3.0′s Codex page. Go get it from the offi­cial site.

Well, well, well. First they fuck up the orig­i­nal movie so that you can’t pos­si­bly watch it in the cin­ema and now they’re rush­ing pro­duc­tion for the sequel. Of course, Clash of the Titans earned nearly $490 mil­lion world-wide thus mak­ing a sequel eco­nom­i­cally sen­si­ble, irre­sistible even. If you haven’t seen Clash of the Titans already wait for a bet­ter cut on Blu-ray or DVD. Want to know why the movie sucks? Head over to chud.com and be enlightened!

As far as the sequel is con­cerned, it looks like the pow­ers that be are focused on get­ting the script ready for film­ing in early 2011. At least they want to shoot the film in 3D instead of try­ing a post con­ver­sion again. Blu-ray + DVD + dig­i­tal Copy combo of Clash of the Titans will be out on July 27th. Accord­ing to ComingSoon.net a sneak pre­view of The Green Lantern will be included. As if that would help the movie …

A few days ago, the E3 trailer for Deus Ex: Human Rev­o­lu­tion made it into the web. The third install­ment actu­ally is a pre­quel to the orig­i­nal Deus Ex pub­lished in the year 2000. In March the first trailer was shown to the pub­lic. The E3 trailer expands on the for­mer and drops a few hints of the pos­si­ble plot. Before I start ram­bling, do your­self a favor and enjoy the trailer:

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With the debut of a short Mor­tal Kom­bat film titled Rebirth spec­u­la­tion has run ram­pant on the inter­net yes­ter­day. The nearly eight-minute clip fea­tured a very inter­est­ing and dark and gritty take on the fight­ing fran­chise. The short is directed by Kevin Tan­charoen and fea­tures a cast that includes Ian Anthony Dale (Scor­pion), Lateef Crow­der (Baraka), Mat Mullins (Johnny Cage), Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade) and Michael jai White (Jax). Accord­ing to Jeri Ryan’s twit­ter­ing Rebirth isn’t a live-action trailer for the next Mor­tal Kom­bat game and it’s not a trailer for a new MK movie. Looks like an inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion to sell Warner Broth­ers Tancharoen’s reimag­in­ing of the franchise.

So, there’s no guar­an­tee that there will be a reimag­in­ing or if there is that the same actors will play the char­ac­ters in a fea­ture film ver­sion. Despite all that, the ‘teaser’ looks like a huge suc­cess online. Lots of talk here and there and I have to admit, I like Tancharoen’s vision more than the first two films and I def­i­nitely like it more than that sorry excuse for a series titled Mor­tal Kom­bat: Con­quest. Any­way, enjoy the trailer: