Fox may have kinda dropped the ball with X-Men 3: The Last Stand and X-men Origins: Wolverine. Theres a lot of reasons those films weren’t as good as the first two movies in the series, and more than a few people think is because they didn’t have Bryan Singer in the director’s chair.
But now he’s rounding up the usual suspects of apt pupils and he’ll return with X-Men First Class. This prequel film will cover the early days of Xavier’s School and give us fun times with Beast, Jean Grey, and Cyclops.
Bryan Singer casually announced his involvement on the red carpet for the Avatar premiere, which you can see on Ustream (its at 27:21 in the video). His exact words, “I just yesterday signed a deal to an X-Men First Class Origins picture”
Superhero movies seem so common now its easy to forget that Singer’s X-Men was the film that started the trend back in 2000.

Apple.com has the first official trailer for Iron Man 2 online.
You’ll need to have Quicktime, but considering its been a standard format for movie trailers for about 11 years, you shouldn’t be shocked. In fact you should be thrilled because its available in 1080p!
I’m sure some kind soul will upload it to youtube soon, or perhaps you’ll be able to actually see it in a theater in the next week or so.

The full feature on the newest Transformer game will be included in Game Informer magazine on December 14, but a short teaser video has already been posted.
Its highly unlikely this is in-game footage, but it does give us a peak at what Cybertron in this game shorld look like. Also, check out the big guy at the end!
Game Informer has a TF mini-site where new information about the game will be posted all this month.
What do you think of a Transformers game not tied to any specific show or continuity? Leave a comment here, or jump our forums!

In New Super Mario Bros Wii, Nintendo has brought back the long dormant “Koopalings.” These seven characters are supposedly Bowser’s children and appear as stage antagonists in several Mario games. It is said that during the production of Super Mario Bros 3, Shigeru Miyamoto based each of them on a member of the design team.
But when Super Mario Bros 3 was released in 1988 to Japan, the kids were not given names. Only a year and a half later when Nintendo Of America released the game did they get names. The localization team did their best to match their appearances with some obvious, and less obvious names. See how obscure they get!
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Former 1UP and current Game Informer writer Phil Kollar has been teasing his big cover story for the magazine on twitter lately, and he just fessed up some details: “Yes, it’s a new Transformers game.”

Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions of the game are on the way, tenatively titled “The War For Cybertron”
Artwork from the magazine (left) shows Optimus Prime, and theres a hearty influence of The War Within, as action will be set before our favorite transforming robots arrive on Earth.

TheAllspark broke the story earlier this evening, but Kollar says images and a trailer will be online later this week. Look for the issue of Game Informer at GameStop very soon.

If you’d like yours personally autographed, please email me, zac@powet.tv

The Legend of Halo: Quest For Recon is a short from the oddly entertaining Machinima blending the best game of all time with the second best game of all time. I’ll let you decide which I’m talking about.
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What seems like minutes after we got the first glimpse of War Machine from Iron Man 2, we now have an even better look. Granted, Rhodes’ armor is behind Stark’s, but we get a great idea how they’ll stack up.

Iron Man 2 will arrive in the US on May 7th, which is a really long time to look at such a cool poster. A teaser trailer is expected with the December 25th release of Sherlock Holmes, which also stars Robert Downey Jr in the title character.