Gamers fond of the cinematic nature of the medium have probably heard of Monty Oum, the director and creator of the fan favorite Haloid video who became the stuff of legend a few years back by unleashing a self-created cinematic masterpiece of epic proportions. Well, for those that don’t know, Monty has moved on and is now working on his Dead Fantasy series of videos. The videos pit the girls from the many Final Fantasy games against the girls from the Dead or Alive series. The end result is one SWEET ass cat fight brawl.

Monty Oum has now released exclusively to Gametrailers.com his 3rd masterpiece in the Dead Fantasy series. This time around he casts FFVII’s Tifa lockheart to lock up against DoA’s Hitomi. With both characters being experts in hand to hand fighting, there’s of course plenty of up-close action to marvel at. So, will Tifa’s materia be able to have the deciding factor in this match or will Hitomi busty body be able to shake off Tifa?

Watch Dead Fantasy 3 after the jump and find out for yourself.
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While scoping out Invisible Wall’s, Marcus Beer’s blog today, I came across the weirdest video that he found on Vimeo. The title for the video is simply named, “Video Games”.

The animation and direction of this video was done by a gamer calling himself , “Musclebeaver” (draw your own conclusions as to what his name means). The video takes all our favorite games from each generation and mashes them up into a creative illustration that is suppose to be the prologue to a video game documentary he is making.

The end result for this creation? One very professional, odd, twisted and somehow amusing video. Some of the classics of each generation are portrayed and I enjoyed seeing how the characters at the end of their sequences merged into the next characters sequence, giving you the sense of evolution.

He explains the documentary itself saying, “it portrays the evolution of games and follows different characters based in Germany, describing their everyday lives and their addiction to the same specific, famous “MMORPG’s” like the W one.”

Again, this is only the prologue to that documentary, so don’t expect an actual representation of a documentary in this video. No sense explaining too much about it…it’s just one of those things you gotta see for yourself and then draw your own conclusions. There’s a long pong battle sequence at the start, but bare with it. I promise there’s more to it, once it switches to the next sequence, just remember… I did say it was odd and twisted, enjoy.

To watch the video, click here.

Who said your life inside World of Warcraft wasn’t interesting enough to broadcast to the real world?

Introducing TweetCraft, developed by coding4fun Productions and in association with Channel 9, a new mod that finally delivers a way to twitter your virtual life to the rest of the world while inside the World of Warcraft. The mod works amazingly well with Twitter and the game, letting you sign in and out, post/read status updates, and even link in-game pictures and achievement straight to your twitter account from within the game world.

I’m already seeing a flood of achievements spam my twitter log from all sorts of people. Some of which I didn’t even know they played WoW. I wouldn’t be surprised if a big name celebrity will have the mod running soon and get some recognition as a WoW player. (Imagine Obama as an Orc Death Knight…)

There’s even a sweet video to showoff the mod.

To find out more about the TweetCraft mod and to download it for yourself, head on over to its official website.

Have you ever wondered what could be accomplished with loads of free time and the participation of 300 Fallout fans from Russia? Well, if you were to set up a little cos-play live action apocalyptic set and take some awesome pictures, you might end up with the following Fallout-themed event.

According to a recent article on Kotaku, “A workshop group called Albion organized the event, securing the setting and providing technical, medical, and rescue support. Around 300 players participated, creating their own costumes and modifying fake weapons until they looked as if you just plucked them from a freshly-killed raider’s hands. The game followed a basic plot, which the organizers would change on the fly according to how the players reacted.”

This group of fans went all out and produced some amazing images. To check out a collection of pictures taken at the event, hit up this website. Now, who’s gonna pull this sorta thing off for Elder Scrolls???

Have you ever wondered what type of gaming collection a world renown superstar like the late Michael Jackson would have accumulated over the years? Well, break out the checkbook and wonder no more as you gawk at this amazing basement of video game cabinets previously owned by the King of Pop.

Recently, a 360-degree complete tour of this collection has popped up from Julien’s Auctions, who is in charge of auctioning out the goods. The collection consists of every classic cabinet imaginable and even a nice collection of cabinets for all the major console’s.

Check out the 360 tour link and the full auction catalog link below. Your going to need a good fast connection and a reliable web browser to enjoy the experience.

MJ’s 360 game basement tour link (via Julien’s Auctions)

MJ’s Auction Catalog ( via Julien’s Auctions)

Have you ever wondered what type of gaming collection a world renown superstar like the late Michael Jackson would have accumulated over the years? Well, break out the checkbook and wonder no more as you gawk at this amazing basement of video game cabinets previously owned by the King of Pop.

Recently, a 360-degree complete tour of this collection has popped up from Julien’s Auctions, who is in charge of auctioning out the goods. The collection consists of every classic cabinet imaginable and even a nice collection of cabinets for all the major console’s.

Check out the 360 tour link and the full auction catalog link below. Your going to need a good fast connection and a reliable web browser to enjoy the experience.

MJ’s 360 game basement tour link (via Julien’s Auctions)

MJ’s Auction Catalog ( via Julien’s Auctions)

Blizzard Entertainment is known around the world for a lot of things…Creating World of Warcraft, introducing the awesomeness of Diablo, and setting the RTS world on fire with StarCraft just to name a few…but, beyond its core franchises, Blizzard is also known to have some of the best artists and creative team members in the business.

In fact, the art and work that comes from Blizzard has influenced countless artists and people around the world, particularly in the case of WOW, and The Laguna Art Museum in Cali wants to showcase some of the best pieces for your viewing pleasure this summer.

From the Museum’s official website:

This summer, Laguna Art Museum and Blizzard Entertainment are proud to present WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon. This exhibit features art created by professional artists from around the world who have been influenced by World of Warcraft, as well as works generated by Blizzard Entertainment and by members of our community.

There will also be a silent auction featuring works from renowned Blizzard artists running until October 4.

Awesome…I only wish I lived closer to California to experience the Exhibit for myself…

For more info, hit up the event’s official website.

I came across an article posted by Mike Smith over at yahoo’s “Plugged in” blog, which makes for an interesting read and conversation. The blog post dives into questions and problems that we here at EBA have debated and tried to understand in the past.
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Attn gaming music fans, Gamer MusiCON, a Music Convention that is the brain child of The Houston Symphony, in partnering with Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall (Video Games Live)and Blizzard Entertainment to deliver a special performance this July.

The event is planned for July 18, 2009 and will be held in Houston, TX at Jones Hall. Tickets are available from $50 – $100 dollars, but that all depends on where you want to sit during the performances.

Event timeline will go as following:

2:00   Doors to Jones Hall open for lobby festival
3:00 – 4:30  Blizzard Live! concert
4:30 – 7:30  Lobby festival
7:30 – 10:00  Video Games Live! concert
10:00 – 11:00 Post concert autographs & merchandise sales

Event highlights are:

- Game Crazy festival with playable game demos throughout all three levels of Jones Hall
- Interactive panel and Q&A session with Blizzard Entertainment game composers
- On-stage costume contest
- Merchandise Sales
- Post concert autograph session
- Guitar Hero contest in lobby, winner plays on-stage during concert

The Houston Symphony has posted details about an all-day event on there website.

Now, what do we gotta do to get Brent on-stage in a WoW-themed costume…???

Let’s face it, video game characters are usually portrayed in a larger than life situation and as a result, we tend to forget that some of them may have had an average, everyday life like you and I at some point.

Well, the boys over at PwnorDie, “love the idea of video game characters being everyday people” and of course, so do we.

With a little bit of Cosplay and some Photoshop work, you can see how Master Chief spent his High School Years and various awkward moments in his life before becoming a gaming legend.

Check out more oddly intriguing images of Master Chief and read the full article from Pwnordie.com right here

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