Halloween Countdown 5: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 has Zombies back with an actual Campaign!!!

Yes, Black Ops 2 is bringing Zombies back. This time however it will not be the little fun mini game like the original(s).

It has been confirmed that Zombies will now, finally, have a campaign to it!!! The Tranzit campaign will be single player or four player in an open world map. You must defeat waves before entering a new room or area in the world, you'll also meet up with other characters and have special creation modes for objects and weapons. To travel to other areas you can do it either by foot or you can take a bus, yes a bus. Don't worry, you do get attacked on the bus!

There is also grief mode where two teams of four players try to survive waves and waves of zombies until one team out lives the other. Sadly you can't shoot the enemy teammates, but you can make the progress a nightmare. There is also the original zombie mode returning called survival mode.

COD Black Ops 2 comes out November 13th for PS3, 360, and PC. It also comes out for Wii U on November 18th...

Iron Man 3 armor!!! / another Hulk movie???

When it comes to doing movie news, we here might only end up writing about scary, action, or superhero flicks. Especially with news like this!

Concept art was released to show off the new suits of Iron Man/Tony Stark (played of course by Robert Downey Jr.) and War Machine/James Rhodes (being played once again by Don Cheadle) which we will see in the next third installment. Iron Man's suit, this time around, is the Mark XLVII (how did he go from the Mark VII to the Mark XLVII???? he's been busy!) and it will have more gold color this time around. The suit is suppose to literally grow out of his skin, like in the Extremis storyline (which the third film is closely following), so that is pretty sweet! War Machine's suit is basically the Iron Patriot suit (which was originally assumed to actually be a secondary villain in this film, but was later proven false). Perhaps his suit is a hint to a possible storyline involving Iron Patriot himself? Check out the art below:

A bit more "colorful" than expected right? While there is some pointless fan backlash at these new looks, I personally and Honestly like the crap out of these new looks! Iron Man's will easily look awesome, especially if it does grow out of his skin, and to me it looks more like a suit made of science if that's even possible. War Machine's suit definitely went a strange route, and Director Shane Black is definitely making a daring move, but it kinda makes sense for Rhodes to go with those colors. James Rhodes does seem a bit more "patriotic" than that of Iron Man (see what I did there?) and if there is to be an Iron Patriot storyline in the future for Iron Man 4, 5, etc., where else is the suit gonna come from? And who knows, maybe Rhodes is a die hard fan of Captain America, so he painted his suit for inspiration? The reasoning can go anywhere.

In other News

It's obvious that out of all the superheroes in the Avengers film this year, Hulk is the one that stole the show in the end. It would be pretty stupid for Marvel not to make another Hulk film, who cares if the other Hulk films underwhelmed at the box office? Avengers Hulk has everyone basically re-convinced! Kevin Feige had this to say about another Hulk film: “Do I think Hulk can carry a movie and be as entertaining as he was in ‘Avengers’? I do believe that. I do believe he absolutely could. We certainly are not even going to attempt that until ‘Avengers 2.’ So there’s a lot of time to think about it.” 

He also hinted at possible storylines that the film could use: “I don’t think there’s a lot that we couldn’t do someday, as the cinematic universe continues to grow and expand and get as big as the comic book universe. ”Planet Hulk’ is a cool story, ‘World War Hulk’ is a cool story. I think there’s pitfalls of continuity-overload, and mythology getting so dense that it almost collapses in on itself [with those cosmic projects]. It happens every few decades or so in the comics. Apart from that, I’d say everything is on the table.”

How cool would it be to see a live-action Planet Hulk movie!? Or even World War Hulk? It sucks that it won't be happening until after Avengers 2, but hopefully Hulk will still make an appearance in Avengers 2 and as long as they have Mark Ruffalo return I'll have no problem with their plans.

To keep track: Iron Man 3 comes out in May, and Thor: the Dark World in November 2013. Captain America: the Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, an possibly Ant-man in 2014. Then we have Avengers 2 coming in 2015, and we can all assume another Hulk sometime afterwords...

Walking Dead for Christmas

Remember those awesome Walking Dead game episodes? Remember the announcement of a disc release? Well that's happening sooner than expected!

The Walking Dead Game, all five episodes, will be releasing on December 4th for a mere 30 bucks. Just in time for the holiday! They also announced that episode 3 will be releasing on ios soon, and episode 4 is just around the corner.

Halloween Countdown 4: Slender getting a Sequel!

Slender was a very basic but extremely popular indie horror. Blue Isle studios knows this, and is now planning a sequel!

The sequel will be a commercial release, meaning that it won't be free like the original. The sequel will be titled "Slender: the Arrival". More news is Sure to come out asap, but what does everyone else think about this? Will this sequel be as good or better than the first game? Or will it be too updated by Blue Isle and turned into another one of those ripoffs?

Sly Cooper 4 release date

Sly Cooper 4 is about as painful of a wait as it is for the Last Guardian (well, kind of), but now Sony was wise enough to give us a release date.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is now going to be released on February 5th 2013, good gosh! Now we got Bioshock Infinite, Metal Gear Rising: Revengance, Dead Space 3, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and now Sly Cooper! Our wallets will surely cry.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time will come out for PS3 and Vita, and will include Cross promotion for those who buy the PS3 version (which comes with free download for the Vita version).

the Playstation Super Slim is true, coming out September 25th and October 30th

Playstation, as much as we enjoy your entertainment, you really suck at keeping secrets. But hey who's whining? We now have a Slim Slim!

Sure this isn't new next generation console news, but the good news is that these Slimmer than Slim little guys hold so much more memory. This time around, Sony said it completely redesigned the internal architecture, resulting in 25 percent less volume and a 20 percent lighter design compared to the current PS3; both have been cut in half compared to the original. Aesthetically, it maintains the same general style and will be available in black or white (however a white model for the US release is still uncertain)."With the extra HDD capacity which has been extended from 320GB and 160GB, users can store and enjoy more and more entertainment content including games, music, photos, and video on the new PS3," Sony says.

The first will be released on September 25th and will be a 250GB bundle for $269, the second will release October 30th and will be a 500GB console for $299. Sure it's not cheaper than the Slims now, but at least they don't exactly cost more so either. Will I pick one up? Sure Probably since I need to replace my broken one anyways.

What about you guys? Does this sound like an interesting thing for Sony to do, or is it just another wasted money grabber? (note: still unknown but unlikely that this will play PS1 and PS2 games, but given that so many of those games are already available in HD anyways, does it really matter?)

Your thoughts on the Wii U

The Wii U is basically around the corner now, and is already getting pre-ordered like mad, but is this new Nintendo HD console as awesome as it sounds?

There is the standard 8GB that just comes with the console, game controller, and the accessories at a reasonable price of 300 bucks. The other is a 32GB deluxe set that comes with a bit more, including a copy of Nintendo land, this one costs 350 bucks (p.s. all the pre-orders for the deluxe is sold out at many online retailers, so finding one for sale will be hard until its release). But do we really want to jump in now and buy low Gigabyte console when they'll probably release a 60, 250, or a 320GB console on a later date? Of course that's assuming they do release higher gig consoles.

Many launch game titles are coming out too, from the many obvious ones (like New Super Mario Bros. U) to the shocking and very surprising titles (like Zombi U or even Assassin's Creed III). It is pretty great to know that the games are going to have much much more variety this time around, along with our favorite classics like Mario or Zelda, but one thing is something to keep in mind, the price. The games will cost 60 bucks like the games for PS3 and 360, that really brings on the pain to our wallets. And they have also confirmed that the HD will not be as powerful as the other HD consoles, so would that weaken the look of most of the game graphics for titles like Aliens: Colonial Marines and Mass Effect 3? (NOTE: we here don't believe that graphics make the game so this isn't an issue with us, however this may be an issue for others).

Plus it's a launch console with launch titles, who's to say that the launch games will not fully use everything that the game pads can do? Geoff admits that it's actually a really fun thing to use, and it could be useful for many game ideas, and he will more than likely talk about it in episode 12 along with Shrew.

So what do you guys say? Is the Wii U going to be awesome or will it suffer when having to compete with the other consoles? Please answer in the poll! (yes there will be a poll this time, sorry for the last one :-/)

EDIT: forget the Poll, Blogger is kind of being weird right now...

Halloween Countdown 3: Scary Honor #1

Game: Slender

For: PC

Price: Free

Scare Level: 9/10

Synopsis: Using only a flashlight, walk through the forest and collect 8 notebook pages before the mysterious Slender Man finds and gets you.

So What?: Slender is a very recent game, it is also one of the very recent most talked about game too. While the idea and basis around it seems very simple. The atmosphere, quietness, and the Slender Man itself is what makes this game so terrifyingly legit! We prefer that you play this one with friends or someone, unless you're brave enough to do it alone!

The game is free to download, and is safe for anyone to play (that doesn't include scare factor, if you have a child that can't handle really scary then it's not a game for him/her)

I your Computer can run it, you can download it here:  http://slender.en.softonic.com/

New Wreck-It Ralph trailer has Sonic in it!

Wrek-It Ralph is an upcoming movie from Disney that seems to be giving a nod to classic gamers, a very big nod.

The film has already revealed cameos from Bowser from the Super Mario games, Dr. Robotnik (or Eggman for those who actually "like" that name) from Sonic the Hedgehog, Ryu from Street fighter, Clyde (Orange Ghost) from Pac-Man, Q* Bert and other characters from his game Q*Bert, Smoke from Mortal Kombat, and even a Zombie based on Cyril from House of the Dead.

This new trailer confirms that Sonic will also make some kind of appearance in this film. Be sure to see it, it is very brief but very noticeable. There's probably other cameos that we haven't seen in the trailer yet (I watched twice before before I realized Frogger was there too!)

Wreck-It Ralph comes out November 2nd 2012, and we hope to see more cameos from other games in the future (Mario and Mega Man anyone? At least Luigi?)

No Director's Cut for the Blu-ray release of the Dark Knight Rises

The rumor speculation for the Dark Knight Rises getting a Director's Cut has been rather ridiculous lately. But now we finally know that this is not going to happen.

The originally story was that a longer version of the film would be released on Blu-ray, which would go more in depth with story elements that are left for the viewer to question. For example, the idea was that we'd get to see more origin story of the film's main villain Bane. While having deleted scenes is still a possibility, having cut scenes in the actual film is not going to happen.

No a big deal. The director, Christopher Nolan, is not fond of making Director Cuts of any of his films. We here at GeekBeerz believe the movie is good enough as is, plus the movie is already three hours something long, do we really want to watch something longer than that? (sadly we would like to watch more Batman, especially Bergy).

Halloween Countdown 2: Silent Hill Revelation thoughts

Silent Hill revelation is the late sequel to 2006's Silent Hill movie. While the first film wasn't as good as the actual video games, it's presentation, art, and mystery aspect was still incredibly good.

What can we expect from the sequel? How does the story connect to the original film, especially since Sean Bean returns? And why is this called revelations when the story, from what they say, is clearly taking inspiration from the Silent Hill 2 game? And what will Pyramid Head's role be this time? And more importantly, will the 3D suck or rock? And will the 3D aspect affect ticket sales, as well as the rating (Which will be rated R, films rated R never really do good in the box office).

Please give us your vote by comment or the poll to the right...

Halloween Countdown 1: Amnesia sales hit one Million!

Halloween is closing in. Stores have already put costumes on the shelves. And GeekBeerz has many plans for the scary Holiday.

Halloween countdown will report any news concerning that of scary Horror games, Movies, TV shows, etc.
 All which will lead up to Halloween nights itself where we will hopefully have our second Halloween Special!!! (which will be episode 12 or 13).

Anyways, the Horror PC game that has Horror fans at a wow has just past 1 Million sales!

For anyone who doesn't know, the game follows the tale of a character named Daniel. Daniel awakens in a Prussian Castle with little to know memory of anything or how how he got there, he only remembers his name. Daniel discovers a note written to himself, from which he learns that he has deliberately erased his own memory, and that he needs to descend into the Inner Sanctum of the castle to kill the Baron, Alexander. The game is currently available for PC (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Cloud)  by Steam or Retail.


Frictional Games revealed that nearly 1.4 million people have purchased Amnesia: the Dark Descent. According to a Blog post from the developer, 710,000 copies of the game were sold directly, as well as sales from inclusions in the Humble Indie Horror and Steam’s Potato Sack Reunion. Overall, the sales add up to 1,360,000 units in all.
“Despite that huge number of sales, what I think is more interesting is how good the monthly sales still are,” Frictional noted. “Not counting any discounts, the monthly full price sales lie at over 10,000 units. This means that less than every 5th minute someone in the world is buying a copy of Amnesia.”

On a side note, it's sequel, Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs, will come out within the first quarter of 2013, and will apparently takes place in the same universe as dark descent but follows completely new characters.

Darksiders II dominating sales

Darksiders II was and is a very good and fun adventure game, so it makes sense that this game is dominating the U.S. sales.

Darksiders was said to be in the leaading sales, selling over 27,000 units. New Super Mario Bros 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance come in closely in second and third place, and Nintendo also notes that their XL hardware sales helped increase sales by 26 percent. Mario Bros 2 also helped by increasing sales 68 percent. NCAA Football 13, Lego Batman 2, and Sleeping Dogs come in as fourth, fifth, and sixth place. And Transformers: Fall of Cybertron does fine settling for seventh selling over 105,000 units.

1. Darksiders II (360, PS3, PC)**
2. New Super Mario Bros 2 (3DS)
3. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (3DS)**
4. NCAA Football 13 (360, PS3)
5. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Wii, 360, NDS, PS3, 3DS, PSV, PC)
6. Sleeping Dogs (360, PS3)
7. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (360, PS3)
8. Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)**
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, NDS, Wii, PC)**
10. The Amazing Spider-Man (360, PS3, NDS, 3DS, Wii)

[NOTE: this list is for the dominating sales of August and doesn't currently include September sales]

Podcast Episode 11 on the Way

Guess what? Geoff and Shrew are back from their trip to PAX 2012! And last night we already recorded part 1 of their PAX coverage for Episode 11.

The episode is roughly an Hour and 50 minutes (that doesn't include the opening, closing, and break songs). It's still pretty long but it's still not as long as previous episodes (which usually go for more than two hours) so to us that's progress! Sadly Bergy was unable to make it again, so Glyde's question about his back problems has been delayed until part two.

In other news, tonight will quite possibly mark our first ever geekflix podcast! Remember, the podcast will star Tom and Bergy and will last for no more than an hour and a half.

Episode 11 is now in the process of being edited, hopefully it will be completed and put online very soon!