Spoiler Alert Is A Game You Play In Reverse
"The big bad boss is defeated, the coins are collected and the princess has been rescued." Well, the only thing left for you is to undo everything that led up to that.
He's A Kung Fu Renegade Cop, Hacking Time To Kill Hitler
Sure, there have been plenty of movies about killing Hitler. But this one has Vikings. And dinosaurs. And a power glove, Thor, street punks, a disgruntled police chief... What I'm trying to say is that this movie has everything.
Screencaps Reveal All the Secrets in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer!
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer pretty much overwhelmed us with spectacle. And supervillains. Did you catch all of the amazing villain reveals, and weird clues? We've got you covered, with our complete roundup of screencaps!
​The Best Game Trailers Of The Generation
Video game trailers are all lies, damned lies. If they show us gameplay at all, it's cut together in the most exciting possible way. They're custom-crafted to generate hype, and they have the power to make a lousy game look fantastic. But, well... if they're lies, at least they're occasionally beautiful ones.
Everything You May Have Missed in the Captain America 2 Trailer!
The first trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier dropped earlier today, and it was a concentrated blast of awesome. Including massive destruction, heartbreaking injuries, and some clues as to the nature of the conspiracy that Cap faces. Our roundup of nearly 100 screencaps reveals everything you might have…
Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' Finally Turns Up In A Video Game Trailer
It was only a matter of time, I guess, before Lana Del Rey's 2011 breakout hit "Video Games" wound up being used in a video game trailer. And so it has come to pass—this trailer for Hitman: Absolution turned up on Eurpoean airwaves last week, and it features Del Rey's song. Also, an out-of-focus naked woman in a…
The Secret To A Successful Game Trailer: Endings With Roars
It's an ancient Mazatec secret passed down verbally from video editor to video editor: If you want your game to be a smash hit, end your trailer with something roaring. It can be an alien, a dragon, a balrog, a T-Rex, whatever; as long as it's roaring, you'll move a minimum of 20 million units, guaranteed.
Behind the Music of Transformers and BioShock Infinites' Moving VGA…
Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of it…
Upcoming Adventure Game To The Moon Will Be One Part Eternal Sunshine, …
"When a video game can make us cry," the saying goes, "that is when we will know that games are art." But what if a video game trailer can make us cry?
What's Wrong With Video Game Trailers
I love video game trailers, but I love them for the same reason I love concept work: I see them as entirely separate art forms from an actual video game.
The Single Greatest Trailer For the Greatest Games of E3
Can you imagine if this was one game? One shooting, stabbing, jumping, running, driving, flying master piece of gore, politics, character growth, feminism and dude-brotopia?
The Year In Video Game Trailers
Movie trailers suck. They lie, and they spoil. Game trailers, on the other hand, are an artform.
The Three New Techniques in UFC Undisputed 2010
When it hits May 25, UFC Undisputed 2010 will introduce three new fighting styles - karate, greco-roman wrestling, and fig-leaf gourd sambo. In this video, UFC coach Mark Laimon compares them to the existing styles in the MMA series.
Why M-Rated Trailers Must Stand Behind a Swinging Gate
Age gates on trailers are a delay, not a barrier, a figleaf that does no more to stop kids from seeing violent content than the third-base line stops a foul ball. How many have claimed birthdays of Jan. 1, 1902?
Splinter Cell: Conviction's Multiplayer Experience In Three Parts
Three new videos provide nearly everything you need to know about the multiplayer of Splinter Cell: Conviction, from Deniable Ops side games and Persistent Elite Creation system to the co-op story mode.
Two New Mass Effect 2 Trailers: Assassin and Savage
Mass Effect 2 trailers! (*fires shotgun*) Mass Effect 2 trailers here! (*fires shotgun*) Get your Mass Effect 2 trailers! Who's ready? (*fires shotgun*) Mass Effect 2 trailers!
Mommy, Where Do Game Trailers Come From?
As we'll get into on Christmas day in a little more detail, video game trailers are big business these days. But did you ever stop and wonder where they actually come from?
Rounding Up the Winners and Videos from the VGAs
I'll respectfully disagree with Geoff Keighley, the announcement of Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 doesn't quite deliver the "biggest surprise premiere!" thrill he told us to expect. Granted, the Spike Video Game Awards have a history that is all of seven broadcasts long.
And Here is Two Full Minutes of Nonchalantly Performed Badassery
Eidos just released a new trailer for Just Cause 2, which blends cinematic action with some impressive gameplay.
Lego Indy Trailer Discreetly Avoids Dr. Jones' Creepy Past
Here's the Nepal bar shootout scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Lego Indiana Jones 2. I guess the Lego-talk gibberish can't get across the sequence's subtle implication that Dr. Jones was boinking Marion when she 16.