Your Week in Geek #4, August 14th, 2010

After a brief, completely non-Starcraft-related hiatus, Your Week in Geek has come bounding back, bristling with the kind of geeky news so awesome and exciting it’ll wrinkle your new shirt.woot tee from fifty yards away.  (Please note that The Modern Day Pirates can claim no responsibility for damage done to either your shirt or yourself as a result of reading this spectacular column.)

Movies:

• A trailer for the forthcoming sci-fi movie Skyline is now available on Apple.com.  The movie centers around a group of friends who find themselves in the midst of a world-wide alien abduction.  Low budget, cool concept and a great trailer have given me high hopes for it.  The Brothers Strause don’t exactly have a stunning track record, (Alien Vs Predator: Requiem….  yeah)  but I’m pulling for them with this one.

• DC has been putting adapting a lot of their stuff into animated DVD format, and it’s no surprise that with their solid record–starting with the immortal Batman: The Animated Series– that these are absolutely worth a putting on your netflix queue.  The next to be released is called Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, (find the trailer here and the official and uninteresting site here)  and is based on Jeph Loeb’s similarly titled comics run.  For the record, the Wonder Woman and Green Lantern animated features were really, really good.  Superman/Batman: Public Enemies was mediocre at best, and this isn’t giving me chills.   I’ve yet to see Batman: Under the Red Hood, and all rumors point to the next few projects DC Animated will be producing to be another Green Lantern feature (excellent) and an adaptation of Batman: Year One and All-Star Superman, both of which rank among DC’s best comics in recent memory.  Those I’m excited for.

• I shouldn’t need to tell you this, but Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has arrived in theaters.  If you haven’t seen it yet, I hope you explode into a shower of coins.  Alright, maybe I don’t, but if the content of a site called The Modern Day Pirates, where we talk about social media, music, comics and video games constantly, falls into the realm of your interests, you are doing yourself a serious disservicet by not seeing this film AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  Nerd up and go forth, minions!

Television:

• A holdover from Comic-con, and I apologize for missing this, and for the continued rant about DC’s animated productions, but there’s a video on youtube pertaining to the next actual animated series DC will be rolling out, called Young Justice.  It looks promising.  Again, DC really tends to knock these animated series’ out of the park, so high hopes indeed.  Also, the video can be found right here

Comics:

• This fits here more than in the Movies headline, but MORE DC NEWS FOR YOU:  A trailer has been released for the forthcoming DVD Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics. The documentary is narrated by Ryan Reynolds, who is now officially DC’s bitch.  Sorry to everyone pulling for a Reynolds Deadpool reprisal, but that’s just not gonna happen now that he’s got that ring on his finger.

Games:

• A trailer has been released for Bioshock: Infinite, and it looks like the game series has finally succeeded in doing what the protagonists of the first two games tried so desperately to accomplish:  It got the hell out of Rapture.  This is a huge boon for the series, and if the trailer (find it at Kotaku.com) is any indication, quality will be consistent with the first two releases.   The release date is set for 2012, and frankly, it’s unfair to have to wait that long for something that looks this amazing.

• Duke Nukem Forever.  The title carries a heavy weight of broken promises and fourteen years of waiting.  Well if recent rumors are to be believed, the game has been picked up to be finally finished and released by Gearbox Software and Take-Two interactive, the folks behind the recent and fantastic new game Borderlands.  This sets expectations to be dangerously high for a game that literally reeks of disappointment.  We will apparently learn more at PAX, come early September.  (Original story from Kotaku.com)

• Lastly, someone from Kotaku.com has played the first thirty minutes of Fallout: New Vegas. In other news, I have added someone new to my “People I am Unreasonably and Painfully Jealous Of” list.  (Story here)

Miscellaneous:

• Mel Brooks has officially predicted the future.