Phoenix Wright to be made a Musical Comedy
Capcom announced that their video game Phoenix Wright will be produced as a musical comedy by the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theatre. Yes, your favorite Ace Attorney will be singing and dancing live on stage in the form of Ranju Tomu from the Cosmos troupe this coming February. View the clip after the jump to have an idea how this will all turn out to be. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, or Gyakuten Saiban Yomigaeru...
Keanu as Spike in live-action Cowboy Beebop
Here it is, folks. Perhaps one of the greatest travesties of anime adaptations to live action film – Keanu Reeves will play Spike Spiegel for the live-action Cowboy Beebop. Tandandan… Okay, granted that he was cool as Neo but come on! Spike’s one of the coolest guys in the anime universe. He’s funny and witty and he can’t be played by Ted Theodore Logan! I can’t imagine Keanu sporting that trademark...
Store sells complete set of Family Computer cartridges
Got 650,000 Yen? Then you can own a complete set of all 1,051 Nintendo Family Computer ROM cartridges that were ever released. If you’re a game history buff, then this should be a wet dream. Imagine having all the “bala” of Family Computer games. And forget those 1001-in-one crap that they used to sell as this is the real thing. The collection includes releases dating from 1983 to the last one released in 1994. 11...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie trailer
And on the trail-end of today’s trailer blitz posts is my pick for most anticipated movie of 2009 – X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I’m a huge fan of Wolverine as a character and the Origin graphic novel would come down as my all-time favorite to date. I liked how they extended the story beyond Origin and went up to the Weapon X phase of Wolverine’s personal history. I think that would allow for much more character...
Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li movie trailer
Oh and here’s another one to open the year for all of us. I’ve been a Street Fighter fans since and Chun-Li has got to go down as one of the best fighting game babes of all time. When we all thought the Street Fighter movie with Jean-Claude Van Dam was atrocious (I liked Kylie as Cammy, though), they decided to muck up the nasty SF movie history with this steaming pile of crap. I never liked Kristin Kreuk even in...