Offbeat Geek

The Spike TV Video Game Awards have spawned quite a few nice trailers for upcoming titles. Enjoy!

Love the ending of that MoH trailer!

Bats is back in action!

An interesting new game from 2K.   Could be one to watch.  Looks like the Unreal engine too.

It's no surprise the caped crusader will return

Thats right folks, Rocksteady have released the teaser site for the, as yet unnamed, Arkham Asylum  sequel.  You can view the teaser trailer and sign up for updates at the site arkhamhasmoved.com.  Lets hope it’s as epic as the first game!

The legend is at it again!

DM-HOLP-Takk finally out!

Download now!

After being rebuilt not once, but twice, DM-HOLP-Takk finally sees the light of day.  This is a Harcore Oldskool Low Poly style map with 1on1 in mind.  For those who don’t know (if there are any of you out there), this is a  custom Unreal Tournament 3 level.

Takk, Norwegian for “Thanks”, is dedicated to the community members who helped to keep the HOLP2 Portal Site alive this time last year.  Personally moved,  I created this map to immortalize these individuals.  So today, it’s Thanksgiving Day! I give you DM-HOLP-Takk!  Enjoy!

Edit: This post was meant to be published automatically on the 26th at 12pm GMT but typically wordpress decided to ruin my day and not publish it.

Three weeks ago we were treated to the first part of the live action Assassin’s Creed: Lineage shorts. Since then there have been two more.  Over the weekend, all three were combined into one full mini movie.  Check it out below!

Assassin’s Creed  2 is due out this Tuesday (Nov 17th).

Unreal Developer Kit

Well we finally have the answer to what was happening on epicgames.com a couple of weeks back!  That’s right, Epic have released Unreal Engine 3… for free! You will even be able to sell your own games via a steam-like app. That will be worked out later. For now Head on over to the new and swanky site for all the juicy details (http://www.udk.com/)

Part one of Assassins creed Lineage has been released on youtube. Check it out now!

Oh what will it be?

For a brief while the epic games site changed and  the tag line: “It’s Unreal. And it’s almost here” appeared along with an image. Whether this will be an Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Engine, Make Something Unreal Compilation or something new entirely remains to be seen. With none of the usual sites reporting it It may very well be nothing. I’m getting needlessly excited anyway! More Unreal is never a bad thing.

As I find out more I’ll be sure to update.

Edit: It seems kotaku is now reporting the story.  So there may be some weight to this after all.

Edit 2: It seems the unreal.com website is now empty with a white flash box and sporting “Unreal Universe” on the title. Maybe a site to watch in the future?

Update Friday 23rd Oct: So Joystiq (article) are reporting that the Unreal Engine 3 is going to be released to consumers.  Essentially this will be something like Unreal Runtimes before it.  Allowing aspiring developers to showcase their work with  current “next-gen” power.   Exciting times are ahead!

Meet the crew

A prerendered trailer for the upcoming left 4 dead 2 has been leaked. You can check it out below. It’s quite fun, check it out!

Live Action Assassins

The preview trailer for the live action trilogy of short movies, Assassins Creed Lineage, was released today! Set as a prequel for Assassin’s Creed 2, Lineage will be airing on youtube October 27th. Check out the video!

Hybride who have worked on”Sin City”, “Snakes On A Plane” and “300″, secured the visual effects work from Ubisoft. If the trailer is anything to go by these shorts could be quite fun. I can’t help but wonder though if  the Microsoft and Bungie excursions into live action advertisements for Halo prompted Ubisoft to do the same?  More entertainment for the consumers I suppose.