Breaking News: I Suddenly Give a @#$% About Bloodrayne
EA just sent me an awesome Mass Effect 3 trailer last night. I was all set to post it, then I realized it was the same “Fall of Earth” trailer that debuted at E3 last week and has Shepard yelling “We fight or we die, that’s the plan!” (that’s a shitty plan, by the way) and that everybody’s already seen. So instead I’ll post a different trailer that came out during E3, but that few people have seen — Bloodrayne: Betrayal. Now I know what you’re saying: “What? The game about the sexy vampire who fights Nazis that somehow have never been that good despite the fact they star a sexy vampire who fights Nazis?” Yes, but look!
Bloodrayne: Betrayal is a beautifully animated, HD, 2-D platform action game. There’s a wide variety of monsters to fight. Crazy, trap-filled mazes to jump through. Tons of blood. Beautiful animation. And somehow, the fact that this gorgeously updated throwback to yesterday comes out of the ridiculous Bloodrayne franchise makes it all the more impressive to me. The game comes out on Xbox Live and PSN this summer. Well done, somebody.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.