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Vanquish out on PS3 this winter8th Mar 2010 15:50:15
Upcoming third person shooter Vanquish will be released on the PS3 this winter, it has been revealed.
Publishers Sega and developers Platinum Games collaborated for the new game, directed by Shinji Mikami who is best known as the creator of the Resident Evil series.
The futuristic sci-fi shooter sees players take control of Sam, a government agent equipped with a hi-tech battle suit.
It is set in a future where the world's nations battle it out over dwindling energy resources.
Sam can also use martial arts skills and an array of weaponry has he fights legions of killer robots.
"Vanquish is a game where we've tried to inject the extreme pace of an action game into a shooter," said Mr Mikami.
"The gameplay and staging are all put together around the keyword 'intensity'.
"I think it's very rare to come across a game where shooting loads of robots is so much fun,"
Vanquish is the fourth collaboration between Platinum Games and Sega, having previously delivered Boyonetta for the PS3 and Xbox360, Infinite Space for the Nintendo DS and Mad World for the Wii.
Nowhere Boy Blu-Ray out in May8th Mar 2010 15:50:08
The biopic of John Lennon's early years Nowhere Boy will be released on May 10th, it has been announced.
Sam Taylor-Wood's directorial debut tells the story of the legendary Beatle's upbringing in Liverpool.
It is based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Lennon's half sister Julia Baird and deals with Lennon's teenage years and his first steps towards stardom.
The film was nominated for four BAFTAs this year, including Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British director.
Included on the Blu-Ray version are such special features as audio commentary, extended interviews, deleted scenes.
There are also several exclusive featurettes, including Lennon's Liverpool and The Re-creation of the Quarrymen.
The critically acclaimed film received many positive reviews upon its release.
David Gritten, writing in the Telegraph, described the movie as: "A superior British film about John Lennon's teenage years that smartly avoids the usual pitfalls of music biopics".
Toy Story out on Blu-Ray on Monday5th Mar 2010 15:18:49
The Pixar classic Toy Story will be released on Blu-Ray this Monday (March 8th) ahead of a third instalment of the computer-animated franchise due to hit cinemas this summer.
Included on the Blu-Ray are special features such as bonus footage and a sneek peak of the upcoming new release.
Toy Story 3 will be a 3D adventure starring all the best-loved characters from the first two movies.
It is being directed by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, who also directed UP and worked on Toy Story 1 and 2.
Speaking to the Press Association recently, the two revealed how their own lives inspired the new film, in which the toys' owner Andy grows up and leaves for college.
Docter said: "One kind of interesting thing is it's now been 15 years since the first Toy Story so you can really track the relationship in the film to the filmmakers - now we've got kids that are getting older and in (executive producer) John Lasseter's case, going off to college, and that really parallels the stories that are being told with those characters."
UP has been nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Animated Feature.
