Asia seriously loves their online gaming. French game informer, GameBlog.fr recently reported about a new theme park being made in China based on the Blizzard Entertainment’s ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Starcraft’. Named, “Joyland”, the theme park will be divided in five parts, each representing a different type of park such as “Terrain of Warcraft and “Universe of Starcraft”. The park is suppose to sit in Wunjin district, China and its more than just conceptual pictures on paper. Local TV new stations have captured footage of the park being built as we speak. Joyland is suggests that Joyland will open in March, but I really doubt they can get all of this done in less than one month. Unless they have every single person in China work on this theme park. I think if they do make the March deadline, I wouldn’t dare visit or ride anything for at least five years after the park’s opening. Just in case stuff gets messy. I figure five years is a good time frame for everything that can go wrong to go wrong. I’m no guinea pig.
Hit the jump to check out some pix of “Joyland”
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Hello, boys! Michelle Trachtenberg is all grown up!
Yeah, so based on the feedback I got from the post regarding Summer Glau’s Esquire photoshoot, I noticed ya geektroopers (both boys and girls) really like pictures of pretty girls. Go figure right? Well, to cater to the masses and to add some erotic eye candy to igeektrooper, I figure why not just bring you news regarding any new magazine photo shoots that pertains to you favorite gals from geeky tv shows and movies. You would like that wouldn’t you?
Well, up next is Buffy Summer’s little sister, Dawn who was played by Michelle Trachtenberg in Joss Whedon’s ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ television show. Well, since then, Michelle hasn’t really done anything “geeky” other than doing the voice for Valkyrie in ‘The Super Hero Squad Show’. Hopefully, she’ll make a triumphant return to a new show we can really get into. Currently, Michelle is gracing the cover of Maxim magazine this month (March 2011 issue) and by the photos in her spread, it looks like it going to get harder and harder (no pun intended) to see her as the that fourteen year old member of the “Scooby Gang”.
Hit the jump to check out Michelle Trachtenberg’s spread in this month Maxim (in stores now) and a “behind the scenes” video of the photoshoot. Enjoy!
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YAY! Another infographic! For once, I can really get into an infographic. Why you say? Well, maybe because its an infographic is a cross section of the Imperial All-Terrain, Armored Transport, also know as the AT-AT. I remember these bad ass giants when I first watched ‘Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back’ and it brought a tear to my eye when the pesky Rebel Snow Speeders (I made the mistake of thinking they were A-Wings…) started bringing them down with harpoons and tote cables. Well, considering the AT-AT’s menacing, but simple design, you wouldn’t know exactly what goes on inside those giant fortresses. Well, now you know. Everything and anything is listed on this chart. AT-AT were one of the biggest (literally) reasons behind the Empire’s win over the Rebels during the “Battle of Hoth”. Pesky Rebels…
Click here to see the chart in full size for your viewing and learning pleasure ! Who said iGT isn’t educational?
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This is so maddening, I don’t know where to start. French DeviantArt-ist, Max Arkes (aka maxarkes) decide to put this studly picture together for a steampunk art challenge on a forum. His entry is this bad ass ‘Lord of the Rings’ Steampunk Witch King of Angmar (the leader of the Nazgûl aka Ringwraiths) illustration. A Steampunk Witch King is definitely more menacing with those intense glowing goggles and steam shooting out everywhere from his body. Must better than some dusty old cloak. I wonder if the Steampunk Witch King would fly on a “Nazgûl-bird” (those unnamed flying dragon-thingies) or a steampunk style glider of death. A glider would be incredible.
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Fair warning. This shit will give you an erection as long as the picture. I’m dead serious. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘The Legend of Zelda’, pixiv (a Japanese online community for artists similar to DeviantArt) member, “Ag+” created an amazing Zelda illustration that many consider the greatest Zelda art piece ever. Ag+’s use to colors and attention to detail is pretty mind-blowing in my opinion. The amount of characters featured in this piece is insane as well. I would have to agree with fans that this is the greatest of all time and it will be near impossible for someone to beat this. Whats even cooler is Ag+ posted a video of himself working on this Zelda painting from start to finish. It’s is a pretty incredible video to watch. I can go on and on about how cool this picture is, but I should just let you see it and listen for the sound that you jaw makes when it hits the floor.
Hit the jump to check out Ag+’s complete Legend of Zelda paint and video of how it was made.
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Many of you know how much I am looking forward to the release of director Zack Snyder’s ‘Sucker Punch’. As a long time fan of action, comics, and Japanese animation, Sucker Punch is a serious visual beauty. Of course, we have no idea what the story will be like and whether it’s any good, but girls in school outfits with machine guns and katanas seems like a brilliant way to spend two hours. The newest trailer to hit the web is called the “Trailer Painter”. The trailer has a lot of clips we have already seen in the previous versions, with a couple new scenes. What I like the most about “Trailer Painter” is that they cut out the narration nonsense and pretty much made it into an action packed music video backed by Silversun Pickup’s song, “Panic Switch”. One of the unique things about the “Trailer Painter” is that you can go to the official site, and pick frames from the trailer to customize using an online coloring application. Once you are done putting your personal touch to one of the many frames in the trailer, you can play the video featuring your work and many others submitted to the site. The “painted” trailer is a bit of a mind fuck because the visuals alter at such a fast rate, it almost comes off as a distorted video effect. Pretty cool in my opinion.
Hit the jump to check out the “Trailer Painter” Sucker Punch trailer and than go to the “Trailer Painter” site to submit your own work.
Sucker Punch opens on March, 25th 2011
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Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…
I find a Delorean Time Machine made of LEGOs to be quiet awesome. Based on the Delorean Time Machine from ‘Back to the Future II’ (the best of the three Deloreans in my opinion), Randy Sabourin of Gatineau, QC, Canada put together this Delorean with only LEGOs. It’s pretty awesome because just by looking at it, you would think this Delorean was something that wasn’t fan-made, but a kit you can buy at the toy store. I love the attention to detail from the license plate and Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor on the back to power the time machine. I really wish I could own this little Delorean, but knowing me, I’ll probably destroy it accidently from excitement.
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