Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Sports Resort Get Lower Price

Nintendo announced that starting today, Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Sports Resort are available at a suggested retail price of just $29.99 each.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is tied with Super Mario Galaxy as one of the best-reviewed games of all time, with a Metacritic score of 97. To date the game has sold more than 2.7 million in the United States alone. New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold more than 9.4 million in the U.S. and Wii Sports Resort, the follow-up to the game that introduced motion controls to the world of gaming, has U.S. sales of nearly 7 million.

Ant-Man Moves to Summer 2015!

There's some exciting news for Marvel fans today as Walt Disney Pictures has moved the release of Edgar Wright's Ant-Man from November 6, 2015 to July 31, 2015, almost four months earlier.

The film, which is supposed to launch "Phase Three" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will follow Avengers: Age of Ultron's May 1, 2015 release.

Production is gearing up for Ant-Man with Wright directing from a script that he has co-written a script with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block).

The new date has the film opening opposite 20th Century Fox's family fantasy Peregrine's Home for Peculiars and just two weeks after Warner Bros. releases Zack Snyder's still-untitled Superman/Batman film.

Three More Join Showtime's Penny Dreadful

Reeve Carney ("Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall) and Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger) are the latest stars to join the cast of the Showtime drama series, "Penny Dreadful," which will begin filming this fall for a 2014 premiere on the network. They join the recently announced Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green.

Carney will play Dorian Grey in a reprisal of Oscar Wilde's supernaturally attractive and decadent young hero with Kinnear playing a mysterious character of haunting intensity and, in a new version of Mary Shelley's inspired and obsessed genius, Treadaway will take on the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

"Penny Dreadful" is a frightening psychological thriller created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator) and executive produced by Logan's Desert Wolf Productions, along with Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call The Midwife"), both of Neal Street. Of the eight episodes, the first two will be directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, who helmed The Orphanage and The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts in her Oscar-nominated performance.


 

Xbox One to Launch in 13 Markets on November 22

Microsoft announced today that the Xbox One will be available on Friday, November 22 in all 13 of their initial launch markets Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, UK and USA. You can check out an update on the Xbox One progress in the video below.

Sony previously announced that the PlayStation 4 will be available on November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe and Latin America.
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The First TV Spot for Machete Kills

The first TV spot for Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Grindhouse spin-off sequel, Machete Kills, has made its way online. Check it out in the player below!

Hitting theaters on October 11, the action film stars Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Carlos Estevez, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demin Bichir, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding, Jr., William Sadler, Marko Zaror and Mel Gibson.

Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man - he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

Google Buys Smartwatch Software Maker Wimm Labs

So, Google bought a smart watch company, and in the process effectively tossed their hats into the smart watch war already being waged.
It’s kind of funny to imagine an actual war being waged between so many companies though, as there has not been an actual smart watch released by the majors just yet. Sure, you have the Nike Fuelband, and the Pebble smartwatch, but with releases from tech giants like Apple and Samsung still looming in the shadows, this looks to be quite an interesting development. Interesting in the sense that Android’s leading manufacturer already has a smart watch set to be announced at IFA, and also interesting that Google will seemingly undercut that same device.
It’s no secret that Google has been looking to break way into the smart watch game for a while now, but will we simply see an accessory to Android devices, or is this the beginning seeds of an actual Nexus watch being developed?
IFA kicks off on September 6th and runs through the 11th, but expect a couple big announcements as early as the 4th. Check back with Nerd News for the latest.

ABC Fall Preview Goes Inside Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

ABC aired this special behind-the-scenes look at their upcoming series "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." that includes interviews with the cast of the show and some new footage. Check it out below!

Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents including: Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May and Chloe Bennet as the mysterious computer hacker Skye.

"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will premiere on ABC on Tuesday, September 24 at 8 p.m. You can read our summation of the pilot episode, screened at Comic-Con, by clicking here.