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Is this the Trailer for Marvel vs. Capcom 3? Update2: Yes, Yes it Is.

by Robert Quigley | 9:20 am, April 20th

Gamers, you may want to sit down: just three days after rumors of a third Marvel vs. Capcom game surfaced, wildly exciting fans of MvC2, what appears to be a trailer for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has leaked to YouTube.

It doesn’t look like any of this is gameplay footage, but it’s a pretty awesome trailer, featuring souped-up battles between Wolverine and Ryu, Iron Man and Morrigan, and The Hulk and Resident Evil’s Chris Redfield.

Upon seeing this, my initial joy and reverence quickly turned to fear: Namely, the fear that all of this cool 3-D footage meant Capcom was going to go all 3D on us for this game. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is, for my money, still the best fighting game of all time, despite its being released ten years ago. It’s a complex game, to be sure, with three-fighter teams, absurdly long combos, and dense gameplay mechanics, but it also kept it simple and 2D, a restraint that many of the fighting games of the 2000s lost in favor of blind obedience to 3D and frequently glitchier, more boring gameplay.

Well — whew. Nothing’s been confirmed yet — Capcom recently brushed away Joystiq’s inquiries with a “We don’t comment on speculation and rumors” — but rumor has it Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will be 2D in terms of gameplay, and to the extent it dabbles in 3D, it will be similar to Capcom’s Street Fighter 4, one of the best modern-day reimaginings of a classic 2D series.

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Why Remaking The Wizard of Oz Is a Really Bad Idea

by Susana Polo | 6:21 pm, March 10th

Fresh on the heels of Alice in Wonderland‘s box office success, rumors are flying about not one, but two feature film remakes of The Wizard of Oz.  Now, there’s more than one way to retell a story, and there are a few ways to redo Wizard that would probably work.  The odds of Hollywood actually finding those particular ways is unlikely.

More and more often these days, I find myself shouting at movie trailers and announcements: “WHY would you remake that?” Clash of the Titans?  The Karate Kid? My Fair Lady?

I’d like to take some time and explain when a remake generally isn’t a good idea, and when it generally is, and whether or not this means that The Wizard of Oz is something we should revisit.

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I'll Just Leave This Here

Mark Millar is Not On Twitter

by Susana Polo | 12:48 pm, February 21st

But you should try and find him, anyway, because there are a few really funny people pretending to be him. Mark Millar, for the uninitiated, is a relatively well known writer of comic books, like The Ultimates and Civil War, and occasionally movies, like Wanted and Kick-Ass.

Bleeding Cool highlights one twitter feed in today’s Sunday Runaround. Not_Mark_Millar is updated by a self-professed Millar fan who nevertheless feels that the writer can be overhyped at times.

To the folks who retweet me, ask others to follow me and the like, I’ll name a character in a group scene after you in my nxt Ultimate comic.

They will be raped by the Hulk but it will be your name on the page. Honestly who wouldn’t want to be raped to death by the Hulk in a comic?

Just remembered I met Jo Rowling at a cafe in Edinburgh in ‘94. Chatted her up convinced her to finish novel. We all know what happened next

If Kick-Ass does not out-gross Avatar I will eat my shirt and you can punch me in the throat when you see me at conventions.

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