The past few days have seen the announcement of two very different first-person military shooters from Codemasters and EA. The next games in the Operation Flashpoint and Battlefield: Bad Company series have been officially announced.

Love it or hate (I kind of loved it), it's hard to deny that Inception is a pretty ballsy stab at  blockbuster filmmaking. And as with any movie that tries really hard to be serious, it's left itself wide open to some hilarious parodying.

Comic-Con this year was pretty nuts: panels, announcements, trailers, loads of free swag, and of course, lines. Also because it was, to date, the most complete gathering of the team here at the 8th-Circuit. Nice! To commemorate this really awesome event, we've got a new video, four photo galleries, and a round-up of our Comic-Con 2010 coverage. Check it out below!

Have you been hoping and praying that your favorite Oregon Trail video game characters would be given new life on the big screen? No? Well too bad, here's a trailer.

In 1864, a family embarks on an impossible journey into the untamed American West. Based on the classic educational computer game, The Oregon Trail by MECC.

Not that you should abandon us here at 8th-Circuit, but another awesome site to check out is Harry Knowles' Aint It Cool News. One of the stronger area of the site is AICN Comics, run by the @$$holes. Mark Miller, their editor, has now stepped into the ring, and is coming out with his third book: Nanny and Hank.

If I had a blu-ray player... I would be significantly poorer right now. Amazon is having another crazy sale, this time on Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
on Blu-ray with a massive 56%; dropping the hefty price tag from $300 to a much more reasonable $132.99. This is a helluva bargain, and it probably won't last long. So if you want in, better check it out while you can.

So on day three of Comic-Con, I made my way to the War of the Worlds: Goliath panel. I  had no idea what it was about, but the program described it as "an animated sequel to War of the Worlds set in 1914." Sounds awesome right? Wrong, oh so very wrong.

So yeah, that updating on time thing. It's really hard. Haha, please don't kill me. Um, yeah, so last week you people who care did not actually get a video because we were kinda sorta at Comic-Con.  Which was pretty cool you know. Because there were a lot of things to look at. And by things I meant girls. Lot's of them. But there were also other things like the Expendables panel, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, and some GoW3 and Halo: Reach. Yum. Then this week, I kinda got into that new SciFi game StarCraft II. Immediately after playing I had a strong urge to eat some kimchi. Racist and sexist humor aside, check out the video below.

Weta is like the Pixar of effect houses. Whether it is Lord of the Rings or Avatar, from digital to practical effects, New Zealand’s Weta always prevails. I was lucky enough to interview five-time Academy Award winner Richard Taylor, one of the founders of Weta, and Ray Griggs, who will be directing Wind in the Willows using Weta technology.

For my generation, we grew up on Bill Nye the Science Guy. After watching Look Around You, I feel a bit deprived of the weird videos that Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz grew up on.  The show has ten minute long episodes that mock and parody 70s and 80s educational videos. It’s quite British, but the best part is that because it is so short you can watch it again and again, picking up new jokes every time.

As a man who has played Starcraft for years, I found it my given right to provide the public with my most professional and knowledgeable review yet. By the way, the answer is yes. I am most not serious. Unlike Starcraft, I was an avid player of Diablo II, and I can't complain about what Blizzard's doing. Here's to Starcraft II, a very pretty game that teases the idea of me playing a computer game once again.  Check out the video after the break.

This is so awesome it makes me ashamed that I only cottoned on to it now. Super Claudio Bros. is a musical comedy currently performing in Washington D.C. The show, which has received rave reviews from audiences and critics, looks and feels like the classic Mario Bros. games many people grew up on, but it makes a few changes. For one, the villain of the piece is, as the site describes, a neurotic, love-starved homicidal purple platypus! The show features original songs that will make gamers and non-gamers alike laugh (you can hear a few on the site) while it also features original animation and puppets in the production.

At least, that's pretty much the vibe you get from BioWare vice president and co-founder Greg Zeschuk. Zeschuk recently spoke to VideoGamer about the new figure BioWare considers before they dub anything a fullblown success.

Let's face it, a majority of you who are reading this are probably on a quick break from Starcraft II; attempting to recharge your batteries and freshen your mind before you engage in another night-long marathon of RTS madness.

Lex Luthor has finally won. He has saved mankind from mediocre Superman comics. 891 is the second issue of Paul Cornell's run on Action Comics, now starring the ultimate Superman baddie, Lex Luthor. I had nothing but big expectations after reading the last issue, and I am happy to say that they were lived up to and then some.