Starslay3r did an analysis of the trailer, which you can check here.

DOA 5 is listed in Gamespot’s E3 website (Tecmo booth). Be still, my heart.

I admit i’m worried what will happen without Itagaki… Will they change the models to more realistic ones? Will they still look like DOA characters? Will they change the gameplay?

This is exactly what the series needed: go back to 2D fighting!

Also, go to Collider to read the interview with the Mortal Kombat Rebirth director.

This week Mortal Kombat fans got a treat - the guys reponsible for the Undisputed 2 and 3 released their proof of concept video to convince Warner Brothers to go along with their pitch for the Mortal Kombat reboot. At first there was confusion, as MK 9 is coming later this year and it’s supposed to follow a more realistic and hard-R style… So we assumed the video was for the game. But it’s been now clarified that the video is actually for the new movie. Who knows, maybe the game will follow the same storyline.

In the video, Jax is played by the great Michael Jai White (from the amazing Black Dynamite, Undisputed 2 and 3 and also his small part in The Dark Knight), and Sonya by Jeri Ryan (the popular 7 of 9 from Star Trek). I’ll let you see which other characters how up. The whole thing has a “Saw” tone which is very refreshing for the series.

Head to the Facebook Group to find out more about the project, and also get the link so you can e-mail WB in support of the project (like Jeri Ryan asked).

So, the Kick-Ass making-of book i got from Aintitcool arrived yesterday, so i bought some new batteries for my camera to post a few pics. I’m not a huge fan of Kick-Ass or anything… in fact, the only reason i read the comic was because of John Romita Jr’s art (and the film, to see what was the whole fuss about Hit Girl).

I liked the movie well enough (until the jet pack), so i’m not a hater or anything. I do think it’s kinda… funny… how the material got better by removing most of the typical “Millar” stuff, thought. Same thing that happened with Wanted, if you really think about it.

Anyway, i do love me behind-the-scenes materials, be it DVD extras or making-of books (Evil Dead, Crouching Tiger, etc), so i was happy to get a free copy of this one. Well, like most BTS material, this book is fluff. Fluff, fluff, fluff. “I’m so happy, this guy is the perfect actor for the role, blah blah“, you know how it goes. If you’re expecting to find some nice info about the movie, look elsewhere. The value of this book is one: pretty pictures. A lot of them.

Usually i don’t like pages crowded with crooked photograph over crooked photograph, but the design of the book actually fits the tone of Kick-Ass very well. Every major actor gets a few pages, and there are quite a bit of Romita illustrations (no images from the awesome Romita 3D models, though), so overall, it’s good stuff. If you want some nice pictures from the movie, it’s a good buy (yes, Hit Girl gets lots of pages - i know you are wondering about that).