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Mass Effect 4 To Use Some Dragon Age III Core Systems

Steven — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:24 +0000

If there is one other game franchise that gets as much love from gamers as Halo it would have to be BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise and with the conclusion of Mass Effect 3 the company announced that they would be starting work on the next generation of the franchise.

Apparently, according to a bit of Twitter banter at least, that work has been going on full force with studio director Yanick Roy posting the news on Twitter that the design document for the next game has been put together.

Also to help allay fears that it would be forever before we could put our hands on Mass Effect 4 Roy let it be known that to help speed development of the game they would be borrowing a lot of the game systems from another BioWare title – Dragon Age III.

This should help calm some of the jitters about there being another Mass Effect title.

via Game Revolution

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Chrome Users Face Webcam Hijacking Thanks To A Flash Exploit

Steven — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:01:34 +0000

As an avid Chrome user this news has a definite impact but it seems that security researchers have discovered a cross-platform Flash hole that will allow nasty people to hijack your webcam video and audio.

Using a delivery method that has been around for years whereby visiting a site that contains a transparent Flash element and unsuspectingly clicking on it will hand your webcam over to the attacker.

What makes this exploit even worse is that it doesn’t just affect those using Windows. Even using Chrome on OS X, Linux, and even ChromeOS will still leave you open. The reason for the being browser specific, and platform agnostic, is because Chrome handles transparency differently than its competitors – IE, Firefox, and Opera.

The proof-of-concept was posted by Egor Homakov five days ago and Google has stated that it will issue a fix for it by the end of the week.

via Geek.com

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A Six-Minute Featurette Of Behind-The-Scenes For ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ [Video]

Steven — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:48:56 +0000

We might not be getting the second part of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit until December 13th but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be getting lots of teasers to help pass the time until then.

This newest featurette for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a six-minute trip into the incredibly beautiful shooting locations in New Zealand used in the movies. There isn’t any new “movie” scenes to be revealed but more a tour guide for the fans of the movie to see where it all took place.

So sit back and enjoy a bit of travel in the beautiful countryside of New Zealand and maybe chuckle a little bit at the sight of dwarves and hobbits hopping in and out of helicopters.

via FirstShowing.net

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Vin Diesel’s ‘Riddick’ Gets An Awesome New International Trailer

Steven — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:27:49 +0000

I am a big fan of Vin Diesel’s Riddick character (ya even the much maligned sequel to Pitch Black) and while there are a few people mumbling about the similarities between Riddick and Pitch Black I don’t care – Riddick is still looking like it is going to be great fun.

This newest international trailer has much of the same footage in the beginning that we have already seen but if you make it past the halfway mark you’ll see some new stuff to perk up your interest.

via io9

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This Massive LEGO ‘Mass Effect’ Normandy SR-2 Looks Ready To Fight Anything

Steven — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:29:44 +0000

The Brothers Brick are well known for creating some pretty awesome LEGO build but this Normandy SR-2 from the Mass Effect video game, and built by Ben Caulkins, definitely takes the cake when it comes to size.

The model measures in at 4′ long with a 19″ wingspan and if these images aren’t enough for you it can be seen this week in Chicago at the Brickworld exhibit.

via Nerd Approved

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‘The’ Captain Kirk Gets Immortalized In Lego

Steven — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:10:14 +0000

It’s one thing to be immortalized in wax as some dummy in a wax museum but how many of our geek heroes can say that they’ve been preserved forever as a statue made out of Lego?

Well it turns out that thanks to teenager Evan Bacon our most favorite geek hero Captain James T. Kirk is now an 18,000 piece Lego statue (with each piece glued in place so that he can’t fall apart when the Tribbles attack).

The statue stands 6 feet tall and weighs only 90 pounds, so lets hope he doesn’t have to battle any aliens because glue or no glue I don’t think he would survive.

via Technabob

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A Show And Tell Of The ‘Pacific Rim’ Jaegers With Guillermo del Toro [Video]

Steven — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:20:00 +0000

This was another one of those movies that when I first heard about it I was more than a little dismissive of it. I mean come on, giant human controlled robots fighting giant monsters from the bottom of the oceans.

However the more I’ve seen of what is headed our way the more excited I am getting, especially following this newest featurette with Guillermo del Toro talking about those giants and what went into creating them.

Pacific Rim will be hitting theaters on July 12th.

via FirstShowing.net

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A Collection Of ‘Akira’ Concept Art Shows Us The Movie We Will Never See

Steven — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:00:58 +0000

When it comes to science fiction movies, especially popular foreign ones, being brought across the ocean, Pacific or Atlantic, and westernized none has more geek love that the Japanese classic Akira.

While we might argue whether it would have been ruined or been an incredible success there has been work over the years to try and bring Akira to your local theater, only to return once more to it would be a great idea.

Luckily though we have just been graced with a dump of Akira concept art that was done by Rodolfo DiMaggio that illustrated the future cityscapes that would have been the world of Akira. As well there are some sketches by artist Tetsou highlighting the bowling alley and the big finale.

I still think that given the new attitude in Hollywood towards doing science fiction, and superhero movies the right way Akira could be done right.

via io9

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