The Nightly Nerdlinger News, MMORPG Edition

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Yup, I'm most like Foxbat, no big surprise there.

So, thanks to my on again off again job at Gamestop, I'm in the closed beta for Champions on-line. Mostly because no one there was interested in it and I was the only one that wanted the key. This is the second beta I've participated in, the first being Star Wars on-line, meh.

Some of you will know I was a City of Heroes player since launch, with a couple of lengthy hiatuses. This game is, of course, produced by the same company, Cryptic. I've played one long night and got a mystical energy-blaster/healer to level 11 and teamed up for a bit to see how it worked. So far I like it a lot, and I've experienced only minor beta-type problems that didn't effect game play whatsoever. Due to the NDA, I'm not at liberty to say much ATM. If you want to know more specifics, well, the forum over there is full of chatter.

I know Ethan Haas, and he's not from Cloverfield

Well, not really. But despite the internet furour the last week over the Ethan Haas ARG, it's not part of the marketing campaign for the upcoming JJ Abrahms project codenamed Cloverfield. However, there is a LOT of information out there for BOTH of these projects. It's just that the Ethan Haas viral marketing is for an upcoming tabletop RPG called Alpha-Omega from MindStorm Labs. So, if you google Cloverfield you'll probably run across Ethan Haas stuff and visa versa. So here's a list of Ethan Haas related links, Cloverfield links will follow.

Ethan Hass related links
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
http://www.mindstormlabs.com/products.html
http://www.ff0000.com/
http://omgwtfehwr.blogspot.com/
http://www.ffxiresource.com/devel/ethanhaas/
http://ethanhaasknows.livejournal.com/ Iffy, could be a crap site trying to cash in on fad
http://www.ethanhaaswaswrong.com/ iffy, was a link to dareware clothing until a few days ago, probably just trying to cash in on the craze.
http://www.tritonenterprises.net/ seems to be related to the game, somehow.

Cloverfield related links

http://www.1-18-08.com/
http://parasitemovie.com/ also iffy, probably not really official site
http://www.slusho.jp/
http://cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/

The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 8

I Am Legend

The I Am Legend trailer is supposedly due out online tonight, as a bootleg if nothing else since it's also supposed to be included with every print of Oceans 13. I'm still not happy about Will Smith maybe butchering another classic, but as this is one of my favorite novels and I loved both the original I Am Legend with Vincent Price and the remake The Omega Man with Charlton Heston, I'll definately be seing it. Watch this space for more news and a link to the trailer when it becomes available. AICN has the poster up, but it pretty much sucks ass.

City of Heroes, The Movie?

Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has secured the film rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studios' video game City of Heroes, Variety reported. The plan is to adapt the massively multiplayer online role-playing game into a live-action feature and then transition it to television in some form, the trade paper reported. The movie revolves around a group of superheroes who live in Paragon City and must team up in order to fight an invasion of aliens known as the Rikti. In the game, players design their own superhero characters and pay a monthly fee of $14.99 to battle supervillains, aliens, madmen and other criminals. An expansion of the game also enables players to create their own villainous characters. City of Heroes first bowed at retailers in 2004 and turned into a franchise, spawning the sequel City of Villains and a comic-book series published by Top Cow Productions.
Source: Sci-fi Wire

Vermsnote: I played CoH and CoV on and off for over a year and will probably play again this summer. Great game and tons of fun. Here's hoping that this turns out well.

Speed Racer official site is now up.

Halloween, the Rob Zombie remake of the movie, official site is up. You can only view the trailer between 9PM and 4AM