The Legoship of the Ring Has Been Formed
I have a lot of videogame trailers to show you, but let’s go ahead and blow the best for first. It’s a new previous for the adorable and awkward-sounding Lego The Lord of the Rings, due out later this year. This preview consists only of the game’s cinematics, no gameplay, but I think we all have a pretty solid idea of what the game will be like, so no trouble there. One — well, I don’t want to call it qualm, exactly — but does it seem to you like there aren’t many Legos in this Lego game? It’s like the characters are Lego figures… and that’s about it. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s just the trailer. But somehow the big, burning Eye of Sauron is even more intimidating when nobody else even has a nose. (Via The Mary Sue)
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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.