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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Releases today

The single player campaign comes from the darkest corners of the ‘Night Springs’, a Twilight Zone inspired fiction. American Nightmare is an exaggerated and gritty rendering of that world – where the horrors of reality have the all too easy habit of coming true. When Wake becomes stuck in the alternate shadowed world of Night Springs, he must hunt down his evil doppelganger, Mr. Scratch, to find the answers. A supernatural serial killer, Scratch has his evil mind fixated on Wake’s wife, Alice, and even more horribly, Wake’s demise. To survive and thrive in the darkest of nights, Wake must learn to control reality itself and unravel the secret to Mr. Scratch’s demise with a trusty flashlight by his side and whatever weapon he can find.

The brand new “Fight till Dawn” arcade mode places Wake in the battle of his life. Players are tasked with surviving a full night of brutal onslaughts while racking up their score. With a myriad of new enemies to battle, Wake won’t have any trouble since he’ll have plenty of deadly options within his arsenal: old stalwarts like the flare gun, wild new favorites like the nail gun and old school Remedy favorites like the Uzi. Thankfully, safe havens and unlockable weapons litter the landscape, allowing for a momentary respite from the darkness. Surviving until dawn is only the beginning though, as online leaderboards pit friends head-to-head to see who the real champion of light is.

Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Pt One

I have to say that I fell in love with the Avatar series one long weekend, Nickelodeon had a marathon on and I pretty much got hooked. I always wished that they would have finished the series a little better, there were so many unanswered questions. So I was super excited that Dark Horse was going to be releasing a series of books that are after the original series. It’s a shame that the original creators didn’t make this series, however they were closely involved. This series is written by Gene Luen Yang, author of the National Book Award-nominated American Born Chinese, Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Part 1 marks the continuation of Airbender and the link to its upcoming sequel, Legend of Korra!I got the chance to read the first part of the book, I have to say that it was pretty good. I don’t know if I really cared for some parts of it, but the main story line is geared around the restructuring of the nations and trying to restore balance. I can’t wait to see where the rest of the series goes!

Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Promise Part 1 is a must-have for any Airbender fan! This is the latest release in an ongoing partnership between Nickelodeon and Dark Horse to bring you the very best in Airbender books.

Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Promise Part 1 is on sale now!
Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Promise Part 2 is on sale May 30th

Trailer: Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

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Today the mad scientists at DrinkBox Studios are delighted to share with you a story of slime, sweat, and tears with the opening cinematic trailer to their latest PlayStation®Vita creation, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack.

SEE a Mutant Blob’s insatiable hunger for destruction!
FEEL the pain and rage that burns inside a science experiment from outer space!
HEAR the shrieks and cries from puny humans as they run for their lives!

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is available now for download on the PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system from the North American PlayStation®Store for just $7.99, and will be available across supporting PAL territories, Wednesday, February 22, 2012.

Toy Fair 2012: Tokidoki *Update*

The people over at Tokidoki sent me some more images from the booth. Enjoy the extra pictures!

Minecraft x LEGO Micro World Sets Revealed

This is a pretty cool set coming out of the LEGO CUUSOO project, this is their third set.

Each box includes parts to build four cubic modular vignettes that you can connect to recreate the Minecraft experience in LEGO bricks. One Minecraft block is equal to one 1×1 LEGO plate with a tile on top–not a perfect cube, but the best approximation at the chosen scale.

The set includes two of Minecraft’s most iconic characters, Steve and a Creeper, represented as “Micro Mobs.” The surface of the modules comes off to reveal mines and hidden resources beneath. You can build your own landscapes, stack cubes on top of each other, and build the world of Minecraft as you wish. LEGO Minecraft Micro World presents a modular standard for building a Minecraft world that can be configured any way you like.

Pre-order here or here.

Toy Fair 2012: Hape

I have always liked Hape, I guess its because I’m a mom and I like good quality toys.  Hape is no exception when it comes to quality toys. This past Christmas I think I have become an even bigger fan because we got one of their play kitchen sets for our daughter and she LOVES it!  Hape always have great things to offer and they definitely showed it off at Toy Fair.  They premiered their new cars, play kitchens, games, dollhouses and new their line of bamboo toys.  I can’t wait to get some of the cool stuff I saw for this Holiday season.

Check out some of the stuff that we saw in the gallery below.

Toy Fair 2012: BrickStix

After writing about them recently we finally got to see BrickStix at the Toy Fair, and previewed their brand new ‘Mod’ line of stickers.  They haven’t even been released yet and we got our hands on some of them!! There were a lot of cool sets that they had at their booth, especially the comic set that had dry erase word bubbles!  We’re really excited to see what else BrickStix has to offer in the coming year!

We will be following up with a product review for the Mods sets early next week after all the Toy Fair excitement.

Toy Fair 2012: LEGO

When does LEGO not disappoint? This year at Toy Fair is no different.  There was a life size giant HULK, Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman.  There was by far the coolest Batman LEGO set I have ever seen, with Bruce Wayne turning into Batman right before my eyes! I got see the new Jabba the Hut sets, Lord of the Ring sets, The Hobbit sets, new Star Wars “planet” sets, Marvel sets, DC Comic sets, Batman sets (yeah I said it again) and the new Minifigure sets.  All and all LEGO never disappoints and they always seem to leave me in awe!

 

Toy Fair 2012: Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics had some really cool stuff, like their new Domo set, the new Camilla piece, and the Treasure Troll prototypes!  We didn’t get a chance to talk with anyone because we were running late to an appointment, but here is a sneak peek of things to come from Dark Horse Comics! Enjoy!

 

Toy Fair 2012: Playmobil

I have some fond memories of playing with Playmobil figures when I was young so I was excited to visit their booth at Toy Fair 2012. One thing that immediately struck me when I walked into the booth was that these were not the same toys I remembered. In fact these were BETTER than the Playmobil figures of my youth. This year’s line up has some very expansive and detailed playsets that should really get kids out there fully engaged with their imagination. Our favorite playset was the ‘Soccer’ stadium set that was actually a fold-up travel case so the whole set can be packed up at a moments notice. All the sets are so detailed it looks like they thought of everything, as evidenced by the inclusion of  a little field mouse hiding amongst the bales of hay in the ‘Farm’ set. There is also a series of collectible blind packaged figures that will feature unique outfits that can be interchangeable. There are a lot of great stuff coming from Playmobil this year, and there’s something fun for everyone, not to mention their Olympic set! Check out some great stuff in our gallery below.