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If you have been wondering what the upcoming Red Faction Origins TV movie would look like, wonder no more. The first pictures from the upcoming Syfy Channel Saturday night movie have popped up on the internet, thanks to Comics Continuum.

The pictures seem to show that at least the art direction for the movie looks somewhat like the sci-fi shooter game series from THQ. The movie, whjch starts Brian J. Smith and Robert Patrick (shown above) will be shown on Syfy on June 4, a few days after THQ releases Red Faction Armageddon on May 31. The movie could be the basis for a continuning TV series if the ratings are high enough.

The latest attempt to make a descent movie out of a game franchise now has a date. The Syfy cable TV network has announced that Red Faction Origins will be shown on the channel on Saturday, June 4.

The two hour TV movie will be shown just a few days after developer Volition and publisher THQ release Red Faction: Armageddon, the fourth game in the sci-fi shooter franchise (shown above) with the Mars setting and the destructible environments. Red Faction Origins, which is a prequel to the store events of Red Faction Armageddon, could also serve as a back-door pilot for a possible Red Faction weekly TV series if the ratings are high enough.

Trion Worlds launched its first MMO game, Rift, just a few weeks ago but the developer-publisher has at least two more titles in the worlds. One is the RTS MMO End of Nations with Petroglyph. The other is the long-in-development sci-fi MMO being made in collaboration with the Syfy cable TV network.

This week Syfy announced that the actual title of the Trion Worlds game will be Defiance and that the game is scheduled to launch sometime in 2011. The plan is still to launch a prime time TV series that will link to the game in some way. However specific gameplay details, beyond the fact that it will be a third person action shooter game, have still not been announced.

Red Faction Armageddon is due out this May and this week its publisher THQ released the box art design for the upcoming third person shooter title. You can check out the entire design after the jump but one thing that caught our eye was the "Syfy Games" logo on the box front.

The Syfy cable TV channel is creating a prequel movie for the game, Red Faction Origins, that will also be shown on the network this May. However this is the first indication that the game itself has some backing from the cable TV network. Big Download emailed THQ for comment and a PR rep replied, "Nothing new to announce at this time. Red Faction: Origins is still in production and we look forward to sharing more in the future."

The Red Faction movie is scheduled to start production this week and today publisher THQ and the Syfy cable TV network announced the line-up of actors for the film, Red Faction: Origins. It's filled with a ton of veteran sci-fi actors, lead by the T-1000 himself Robert Patrick as Alec Mason, the main character from the last game in the sci-fi shooter series Red Faction Guerrilla.

The movie will also star Brian J. Smith, who played Lt. Matthew Scott in the recently canceled TV series Stargate Universe. He plays Alec Mason's son Jake Mason who in the movie is trying to find his lost sister on Mars. Jake Mason turns out to be the father of Darius Mason, the lead character (shown above) in the upcoming Volition developed third person action game Red Faction Armageddon.

Other actors in the movie include Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh and, as it turned out, a Cylon on the Battlestar Galactica revival series) and Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones of Torchwood), The movie is set to be shown on the Syfy network in May, around the time Red Faction Armageddon is scheduled to be released.

While plans for a TV movie based on Volition's Red Faction game franchise were first revealed a few months ago, today publisher THQ made it official today with its press release announcing Red Faction: Origins. The movie, made for the Syfy Channel cable TV network, is currently scheduled to air on the network in March 2011.

The story for the movie will take place before the events in the upcoming third person shooter Red Faction Armageddon which is also currently scheduled for release in March 2011. The movie, which will also serve as a pilot for a possible Red Faction TV series, will have the character of Red Faction Militia member Jake Mason who has found out that his long lost sister is a member of a group that is out to destroy the Red Faction. Bummer.

Based on the hit Syfy series, Battlestar Galactica Online will be a web based multiplayer online game that pits humans against Cylons. One of the first questions a fan might ask is how an online game would play out when we already know what the ending is? The answer, of course, is that this has all happened before and it will happen again. A better question is whether or not the player will be hanging around armies of Sixes and Boomers if playing for the Cylons.

Download HD Battlestar Galactica Online E3 2010 Trailer (22 MB)

Those goofy Saturday night movies on the Syfy cable TV network (ah, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus; we miss you) will be joined at some point by a Red Faction film. The Broadcast and Cable web site has announced that THQ's sci-fi shooter franchise will be the basis for a two hour movie on the cable network that will also serve as a back-door pilot for a potential TV series.

Syfy is getting more serious about cross-pollinating its programming with games. It already has a deal with Trion Worlds to co-develop a MMO game that will also link to a TV series. Similiarly, Syfy will have some kind of influence over the next Red Faction game by THQ.

Will one of the best sci-fi TV series of all time finally get a good game tie-in? German-based game publisher BigPoint hopes to do just that with the announcement today at GDC 2010 of plans to release Battlestar Galactica Online, a browser-based MMO based on the the "reimagined" TV show that had a five year run on the Syfy Channel before shutting down.

The game itself is being developed by BigPoint which operates a lot of free-to-play browser based games. The company is opening up a US office in San Fransisco this year. Battlestar Galactica Online is expect to launch sometime in the fall of 2010 on the Syfy.com web site for a 30 day exclusive period. A teaser site for the game is already online. The final version will use the Unity engine and will allow players to pick between the human and Cylon races in a game that will combine space combat, missions and exploration. We just hope there will be missions with sexy lady robots. That's all we are saying.

Presented here in its entirety is the Syfy channel produced special 'Sci vs Fi' for Mass Effect 2. In it, video game journalists and developers from BioWare discuss the game, its characters, the plot and what sets it apart as an epic action role-playing game. The first part is shown above and the other parts can be seen after the jump.

Download HD Mass Effect 2 'Sci vs Fi' Part 1 (294 MB)
Download HD Mass Effect 2 'Sci vs Fi' Part 2 (424 MB)
Download HD Mass Effect 2 'Sci vs Fi' Part 3 (1 GB)
Download HD Mass Effect 2 'Sci vs Fi' Part 4 (172 MB)
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