Humanity's destiny among the stars apparently includes flying buildings indiscriminately landing on our heads. Suddenly, sticking around on boring ol' Earth doesn't sound so bad….
Video Blips:
• Starhawk's developers describe their painstaking hunt for "the stuff that sucks" in the upcoming third-person shooter. A likely place to start is an improved space-helmet design beyond something thumbed out of a beekeeper's catalog.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebx2XfvGTf4?rel=0&hd=1]
Continue after the break for the hellish ruins of Spec Ops: The Line, a sidekick spotlight with Robin's appearance in Batman: Arkham City, and a return to developer Naughty Dog's platforming roots with Jak and Daxter Collection.
• This trailer for Spec Ops: The Line plays like a delirious Sarah Connor nightmare complete with incinerated bodies and apocalyptic skyline. That flaming red eyesore on the horizon means only one thing: Sauron's gone corporate.
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• Robin asks "remember me?" with a punch to the gut and a quarterstaff to the face in his downloadable content debut for Batman: Arkham City. He also confirms the theory of hooded capes exponentially increasing one's bad-ass factor.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjyXkNTyBE?rel=0&hd=1]
• The Jak and Daxter Collection glosses up the visuals of the first three games in the series. Because the world needs Daxter's eternally flapping mouth sparkling in glorious 720p.
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