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The planeswalkers in Magic: The Gathering Tactics are perhaps the most important part of the game, as they represent the player. This trailer depicts each of the five available, with each being associated with a particular color: red, green, black, white, and blue. All five are taken from the Magic: The Gathering expansion Lorwyn. There's nothing especially new and stunning about this trailer, but if you'd like an up close look at the characters and their animations, here's your chance!

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Every villain needs a place to bunk down for the night, and this trailer for DC Universe Online shows off one of these spots. A supervillain lair with a nightclub facade, it appears to be the safe spot for many underworld baddies, with the prominent Two-Face making a cameo appearance. beyond that, it's characteristic of any MMO hub zone: mail, vendors, questgivers, and queues for instancing and PvP. Nothing particularly special, except perhaps in the lore.

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The Resident Evil movies have never been huge box office hits but the modest budgets of the films based on Capcom's zombie action games have always made the movies profitable. Now Box Office Mojo has posted word that Sony's genre film label Screen Gems has already announced that the fifth Resident Evil movie will be heading to theaters on September 14, 2012.

Last year's release of the fourth film, Resident Evil Afterlife, did just OK here in the US with about $60 million generated at the box office. However the movie, the first to be shot and shown in 3D, did extremely well overseas with over $236 million in box office returns. It's currently unknown if the star of the first four Resident Evil movies, the always armed Milla Jovovich, will return for the fifth installment.

A little while ago Microsoft announced that its Kinect motion controller-camera for the Xbox 360 would soon get an official PC SDK. Now Sony has announced that it will offer an SDK for its Playstation Move motion controller that will allow anyone to make applications for the controller with a PC as one of its development tools.

Reveals on Sony's official Playstation blog site, the software application that will be released for this task is called Move.Me. The software resides on a Playstation 3 console and developers can export data to a PC in order to develop apps that will use the Playstation Move controller. It's not clear if the apps that are developed on the PC can actually use them natively. The software is being release as is to primarily academics, researchers, and hobbyists.

Given all of the in-game footage we've seen of DC Universe Online, the developers are certainly welcome to throw in a cinematic trailer. They've done just that, and the result is this highly-polished cinematic detailing the events leading to lux Luthor's arrival in the past. With a futuristic Batman, menacing robots, a new (and quickly dispatched!) hero, and Lux Luthor's treachery, it hits the sweet spot for DC Comics lovers out there. The visuals are also quite excellent, especially all the particle effects and fluid movements.

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More mana, you ask? Yes indeed, Sony responds, and from the depths of their MMO offices comes this thoroughly standard and average trailer. Much like the previous trailers for Magic: The Gathering Tactics, this one talks about the various creatures that a planewalker can summon of a particular type. In this case, it's green creatures, and the general theme is that of the natural. Woodland animals and elementals are common in the green domain, and this trailer definitely reflects that.

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The newest Magic: The Gathering Tactics trailer visits yet another one of the five elemental colors. This time, it is black: the color of death, despair, and hopelessness. Like one would expect, the creatures of black are either eldritch horrors or monstrosities brought forth by death-defying magic. Zombies, gigantic spiders, black knights, and massive winged demons are all creatures that swear their allegiance to a wielder of black mana. In other words, these are all the creatures you can summon in Tactics!

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The two latest trailers for the now-released DC Universe Online are interesting. While they appear at first to be complete opposites, that is, in fact, how they are connected. The first, above, is a brief rundown of the tutorial zone through the eyes of a new player. He (or she) must flee Brainiac's ship with the aid of The Oracle, and rendezvous with Superman along the way. The second, after the cut, covers the endgame dungeons and raids, including the wrapping up of the Brainiac plotline in the Batcave. If you're curious how your game will look at the start and at its conclusion, these two trailers will show you!

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See that render of a slightly futuristic tank in the image above this news post? That image is likely the first public art from PlanetSide Next, the still-not-officially-announced revamp of developer Sony Online's sci-fi shooter MMO. The image was posted up by John Smedley, Sony Online's CEO and so far the only person in the company who has even talked about the game.

Smedley said recently that we would be getting news about PlanetSide Next early in 2011 "followed by a beta." Hopefully this tank render is just a warm up to a flood of info about the game very soon.

[Via Rock Paper Shotgun]

Magic: The Gathering is such an in-depth card game that many find it daunting to approach it. Five different colors, all the different color combinations, tons of different types of cards, and plenty of rare and useful cards to acquire. Naturally, those going into Magic: The Gathering Tactics will be a little confused if they haven't played the core game, which is where this trailer comes in. It details the creatures inherent to blue mana while showing that they share common themes: flying, magic, and/or water-based minions. There's not much else to it, although the graphics certainly look slick.

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