With little over 2 months until the movie’s release, there was some doubt that the third installment of Disney’s mega-successful Pirates of the Caribbean movies would be released on time because we hadn’t seen a trailer yet.

Well the trailer finally ran this evening during Dancing With The Stars, but since you’re not a mental patient, you probably missed it. Thankfully Yahoo is hosting it along with a short clip from the movie in the usual wide array of video formats for internet consumption. Click here to see all the Pirate action.

I’m anxious to see Chow Yun Fat joining the cast, but I hope this one is a bit better than the second. Of course, the first was such a surprise, I went in to the second with expectations too high. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Activision’s Daniel Suarez has a few words with Superhero Hype about their next game, Transformers: The Game.

The game, which will launch on multiple platforms, is supposed to feature 9 playable Transformers and 7 destructable levels over 2 seperate Autobot and Decepticon campaigns. Of note is this comment:

We’re making a game that is for Transformers fans. Since the very beginning, we’ve been very conscious of the heritage of this brand and have worked hard to integrate characters, locations and even subtle acknowledgements to G1 anywhere we can. There are a lot of special surprises, unique elements and bonus features that fans will enjoy.

Considering the unlockable costumes in all of Activision’s Marvel games and the character variations in Traveler’s Tales’ LEGO Star War series, is there any chance we’ll see some alternate looks for the playable characters? I can’t very well expect full 1984 remakes of the whole cast, but I wouldn’t mind seeing Bumblebee’s goofy face returning.

See also: CVG and GameSpot‘s previews.

Thanks Dru!

I’ve done a fair amount of trying to debunk this one. It keeps coming up at forums and I keep saying “No guys, this is just an early April Fools” because frankly we’ve heard this talk before.

Official Nintendo Magazine (which is the like the Nintendo Power for England) published this teaser on the last page of their April issue. The image of the stars could easily imply a lot of things, but the most direct conclusion was an update of the Sega Saturn game NiGHTS Into Dreams. Many blogs ran this image as truth, many ran it as rumor, and most ran it as a joke. I, on the other hand, wasn’t going to run it at all until we had better evidence.

Now we’ve got some. Chandra from ONM has come out and said “This is not April Fool” but also won’t confirm what it actually is becuase, hey, they still want you to talk and buy the mag when it comes out.

So with a new NiGHTS game coming further into the realm of reality we have to deal with the next big hurdle… the fact that Sonic Team hasn’t made a good game in several years.

A new box set was recently released for this movie which is based on the ever popular Final Fantasy VII PlayStation video game and it even includes the rare Final Fantasy VII Advent Rising anime special. Is it worth getting? Check out what Cloud has to say in this review to find out if this set’s right for you.

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Check out some scans of the box art and exclusive postcards after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Nope, not Marvel’s Captain Marvel. They haven’t even figured out when his book’s going to come out. Instead, we’re talking DC’s Captain Marvel, whose mini-series from Jeff Smith is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the new push for the character. With the script underway for the movie (which has not cast Jake Gyllenhaal in the role, despite what rumors may be telling you), it looks like they’ve got big plan for the character… In fact, a movie pretty much is the big plan for the character.

The upcoming SHAZAM! animated series is all part of the push, according to the latest Lying In The Gutters, and they’ve got the promo image to prove it (image mirrored on the left). Looks like the new standard animation style from The Batman and Legion of Super-Heroes holds through for Billy Batson too. Those shoulders look lumpy.

Update- Look like this is a fake, as Micheal G in our comments section pointed out: Its a an orginal work, and some fankid photoshopped out Jim Zubkavich’s signature. LITG has corrected their article.

It was annouced today on Nausicaa.net and Ghibliworld.com, that world famous animation genius Hayao Miyazaki has announced his newest creation, “Gake no ue no Ponyo” (Ponyo On A Cliff)”. After what seems like a long stint of making wonderful classics such as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky, Miyazaki tried to retire, but finds it “unbearable”.

In this newest piece, Miyazaki has written a story which revolves around a 5 year old boy Sosuke and the Princess goldfish Ponyo who wants to become human. He’s also choosen to model the character of Sosuke after his own grandson, Goro. The film will be done in a freehand pastel-like drawing scheme, and will feature the majority of the film with a sea background, which will prove to be an interesting task for the director to animate. The film itself is scheduled for release in 2008.

It’s the third and final day of Wizard World LA, and… well, not much to talk about.

• CBR has an interesting interview with comics veteran Peter David on the “3 act structure” of writing. It’s actually a really good read, even if you’re already familiar with the methods he describes.
• CBR also has a great interview with Simon Furman regarding the upcoming Spotlight: Galvatron (with Guido Guidi on art), like how Galvatron ISN’T a rebuilt Megatron, or how his nemesis is mostly Ultra-Magnus (?), and how you shouldn’t expect Unicron to show up… outside of the upcoming Beast Wars: The Ascending book.
• Diamond Select Toys has announced an upcoming Dr. Strange Minimate, from what Minimate Headquarters suspects could be a Defenders line.
• Toy News International has images of DC Direct & Art Asylum’s 6th wave of Minimates, featuring “Battle Damaged” Wonder Woman & Cheetah, Bizarro & Supergirl, S.T.R.I.P.E. & Stargirl, and Sgt. Rock & Blackhawk. Images mirrored below:
  

Fwooshnet has gotten some pictures fresh from Hong Kong of the second wave from Hasbro’s Marvel Legends series. If you click on any of the images at that link, you will be brought to the gallery. The wave consists of eight figures, each coming with a piece to the Build-A-Figure for this wave, The Blob.

• She-Hulk (Upper Torso)
• Asgardian Armor Thor (Head)
• Ultimate Wolverine (Lower Torso)
• Yellowjacket (Right Leg)
• Quicksilver (Left Arm)
• Xorn/Magneto (Left Leg)
• X3 Jean Grey (Right Arm)
• X3 Juggernaut (Hands)

Variants for this wave are supposed to include:

• Green Quicksilver
• X3 Dark Phoenix
• Yellowjacket (there is only a slight coloring difference here. see below.)

You can see pictures of them here. I made some compairson photos of the variants below. The standard pictures come from Fwooshnet’s gallery linked in this post. Variant Photos come from wizarduniverse here.