Just in case you are DYING to see the trailer for the new, undoubtedly earth-shatteringly fabulous live-action Hollywood version of Dragonball Z, be reassured- the preview will be attached to the new movie Max Payne, which is released into theaters October 17. The movie itself comes out April 10th.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48229

Just look at what’s-his-name in the picture to the right. He is SO EXCITED he can’t even stand it!

In other news, according to this article one of the cast members is named ‘Texas Battle’. Somebody’s dad was remembering the Alamo, huh?

I don’t really care much for Dragonball-Z. I don’t dislike it, but it’s really never done much for me either. So it was curiosity of the merest kind that made me download the Xbox 360 demo for the new Dragonball-Z game Burst Limit. There was a tinge of double-trepidation here - in addition to not caring much for the license, Bandai Games has a pretty well-deserved reputation for creating bucketloads of licensed game crap (although their merger with Namco seems to be moving the company in the right direction).

Man - this game is all kinds of awesome. From the 1 or 2 episodes of the show that I’ve seen, I can say the gameplay mirrors the show perfectly. The graphics look like hand-drawn animation and the battles are interrupted by anime-style cutscenes depending on what you do during the battle. It’s exceptionally cool. So cool, in fact, that when I stopped by Gamestop the other day I promptly pre-ordered a copy of the game. It doesn’t hurt that Gamestop is offering a free DBZ t-shirt and Season 1 dvd with the pre-order.