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There are a lot of Minecraft clones running around out there, and at first glance, you might be tempted to label Cube World as one of them. The colorful voxel environments are surely reminiscent of Minecraft, but judging from the game’s new multiplayer trailer below, that’s where the similarities end. Instead of a focus on building, Cube World puts the focus on exploration, combat, and collecting loot, and if that doesn’t get you excited, then frankly we don’t know what will.

Cube World has been in development since June 2011, and its creator Wolfram von Funck has been quite good at updating his blog with new screenshots, videos, and news on new features. The latest update features the trailer you see below, which delves into the multiplayer aspects of the game. In it, we see the characters flying around the world in hang gliders, engaging in combat with monsters big and small, and of course, exploring dungeons.

Combat in the game seems fast paced, with monster and player alike dodging out of the way to avoid being hit before running back into the fray to perform a flurry of attacks. The scenery looks beautiful, the weapons appear to be varied (one character uses a bow while the other wields a massive sword), and there are pre-built structures and towns for players to explore as well. When it comes down to it, the best way to describe Cube World might be as a cross between Minecraft and Terraria, only with more RPG elements than both.

Trying to fit it with a label is somewhat frivolous, however – all you need to know is that Cube World looks awesome. Sadly, it doesn’t have a solid release date yet, with Funck saying it will be released “when it’s done.” He isn’t following Mojang’s release schedule of “release early, update often” either, meaning that he won’t be releasing a playable version of the game until the whole thing is finished. With this new trailer, Cube World has officially caught our attention, so you can bet we’ll have more news on the game right here at SlashGear.

Cube World gets awesome multiplayer trailer is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We know that Nokia’s got something big planned for September 5th, and we’re reasonably sure that it’s going to be the company’s new Windows Phone 8 flagship. To whet our appetites, it’s released a 21-second teaser featuring a helmet-free cyclist smiling at the camera and not spending enough time watching where she’s going. We can’t find any clues in the footage (after the break), except that it’s using the same font that we saw in the run up to the Pureview launch. Who knows, maybe we can get our hopes up for a Lumia device rocking that 41-megapixel sensor.

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Nokia’s unsafe cyclist promises ‘things are about to change’ in confusing new teaser (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s time to make time a weapon with the 30-year action plot behind the upcoming action and science fiction film Looper in two international trailers that all but give away everything. Just as it was, essentially, with Total Recall, we’ve got everything we need to know the beginning, middle, and ending of the movie. What’s missing, and what makes it all worthwhile, is the action as it happens, and the science that explains the whole of the story.

Have a peek first at the international trailer you may have already seen, this one released over a month ago with many details about the plot and moments of revelation. If you’re worried about spoilers, this might be a good time to turn back. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play one man, thirty years between themselves, with both of their goals appearing to be the murder of another for profit.

The second trailer is the newest, having just been released this week. This trailer takes on more than just the plot, it explains a bit more on how time travel works in this particular universe. We don’t yet know the mechanism that allows time travel here, nor do we see any time travel take place other than a moment in which a character is not there one moment, and is there the next – followed by a moment in which they’re blown away with a very rudimentary shotgun, of course.

Time travel here also appears to have the main characters – including Emily Blunt – grabbing anti-gravity powers for one reason or another too. Check out Blunt’s character pushing around a cigarette lighter in the trailer above. Also notice that this day marks the start of a viral campaign which also reveals the timeline in the movie. In the trailer, we hear that “time travel has not yet been invented, but thirty years from now it will have been.” The viral campaign gives us the year 2044, therefor we’ll be watching Looper in present day 2012. Fun stuff!

Stay tuned to SlashGear’s science and entertainment hubs as we interview a real expert on time travel later this week – Dr. Edward Farhi from MIT! It’s only a matter of time!

Looper international trailer spills the beans on time travel is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you didn’t head down to Comic-Con and check out the Marvel Cinematic Universe Blu-ray boxed set and its special case for yourself, Marvel has put together a video trailer. From the S.H.I.E.L.D. briefcase itself to the custom artwork and tesseract replica awaiting within. Usually, trailers are reserved for movies themselves, and not just the packaging, but maybe this is worth the exception. Check out the video and let us know if you’re convinced, or if some combination of the $140 price and The Dark Knight Rises arriving in theaters makes it a pass.

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Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Blu-ray set gets its own trailer (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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