Looks like the good folks at Xbox Japan slipped up an released some screen shots before the official announcement of Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360. These shots were quickly taken down, but not before a mister bloke of NeoGAF took notice. More gory goodness after the jump.
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With the DVD release of Transformers right around the corner and the movie still yet to see its September 21st IMAX release, you’d think Dreamworks, Paramount, and Hasbro would be eager to talk about making a sequel to their $600+ Million movie. Well producer Don Murphy is talking…

For those of you most anxious about TRANSFORMERS 2, the silence you hear is primarily because people are fretting about a presumed strike in June 2008. Will it happen? I don’t know- does the public care about strikes anymore in this day and age? What do rich people have to strike about anyway? I don’t have any side here (you hear about the writers and the Producers but that actually means the STUDIOS) I just think stopping work is kind of pointless. But since no one wants to be filming IF a strike happens, everything needs to be done filming by the end of May 2008. So this is affecting the lack of news about Transformers 2 at least for now. Stay tuned.

So the good news is they’re not going to try to rush something, but the bad news is we’ll have to wait until the whole thing gets sorted out. I don’t know enough about the Hollywood strike to tell you what might happen, but I don’t think anyone actually wants to stop working so I’m sure they’ll find a resolution before we run out of movies.

On the bright side, check out this: Taiwanese Guy Turns his Mobile into Fully-Functioning Transformer-Phone!

Apple.com is hosting the long awaited trailer to the 2008 movie adaptation of the Marvel comic Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau, it stars Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrence Howard.

This trailer will be very familiar if you saw the footage from ComiCon, but this is of course much higher quality.

On Friday, Marvel released a teaser image for what appears to be another Marvel event focusing on the X-Men. I’ve mirrored the image below. The only other information released with it was a date. September 10th, 2007. Thats tomorrow. Whatever this is about will most likely be announced at a Diamond event for ‘Direct Market retailers’.

Is it me, or is that Hisako (Armor from Astonishing X-Men) in the upper right corner of the teaser?

Source: Newsarama

This week marks the second anniversary of our popular $20 Game of the week column. We’ve certainly come a long way, yet it seems like only yesterday I started this thing off by raving about Outlaw Tennis. Now it’s two years later, and we’re still here. So what better way to commemorate my second anniversary than with one of gaming’s most prolific companies? Read on after the jump to learn about one of the great masters of 2-d fighting, SNK. Or rather, SNK Playmore as they are known as these days.
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Building upon this post from a few months ago, it would appear that the traveling orchestral videogame concert known as Video Games Live has seen fit to release a full album of their greatest performances from various past shows. “Video Games Live: Greatest Hits – Volume One” will feature various medleys of well-known tunes from gaming series such as Zelda, Sonic, Mario, Halo and many others, all done in their usual orchestral setting. The album was created by tour head Tommy Tallarico, along with Jack Wall and features the talents of Slovak National Orchestra as well as the Crouch End Chorus and the Martin “The Video Game Pianist” Leung.

Seeing as how this is “Volume One”, it’s only fair to assume that other volumes with additional music will be included in the future. They certainly have enough material to work with. The album will see a release date of October 15th and will more than likely be available on the VGL website.

Cinematical has the details for the DVD release on October 16.

Basically there will be a regular edition DVD, a special 2-disc DVD edition and then a special 2 disc HD-DVD edition.

Boxart for the sets has been posted here.

I have copy and pasted the press release after the jump for the full details.

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Not exactly recent news, but for those not in the know: “Heroes” star Zachary Quinto, the man behind Sylar, has been cast as the new Spock in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek flick.

Now SciFi.com has a video interview with the man who would be a Vulcan, where he reveals he’s been working with Leonard Nimoy to understand the mind (and heart?) of this classic character.

He certainly looks the part, doesn’t he? Especially the nose. They did everything they could in Heroes to make him look like Clark Kent, juxtaposing his Sylar’s boogeyman nature. But forget all that; what about the fact that one of Hiro’s heroes is being portrayed by the big Heroes villain?

Do you like this choice? Who could possibly fill the Starfleet-issue boots of the other two “big” roles? Let us know what you think! I agree with Zac (our Zac, that is) that Gary Sinise would make a great Leonard McCoy.