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Greetings Geeks, Some geeks are pretty resistant to going outdoors. Whilst some other geeks are all about getting their "Extreme" on. Kristen Bean had a chance to head up to Colorado to check out some winter tech gear and she gave us the inside scoop. Spring may be upon us but there is still plenty of time to get your snowboarding and skiing in before the snows melt away. Hit the jump for the full report.

Greetings Geeks, The marketing machine is in full swing for The Avengers. There have been tons of behind the scenes footage, clips, TV Spots, and featurettes. Disney is not taking any chances with this one (especially after the bomb of John Carter of Mars). Anyway, here is another clip. But this one just screamed EPIC to me. Hit the jump to see the goods.

Greetings Geeks, Voice over work is one of the rare jobs in Hollywood where you are a star...but nobody knows what you look like...and may not even know your name. I Know That Voice is a documentary about just that profession. It's a nice look at the inner workings of voice over and the supremely talented folks that do it. Hit the jump to view the trailer. It's filled with tons of voice talent that I am certain you will know.

It's time for this week's Grottocast. A recap of the past week in geek! This week we discuss Brazzers'  interest in sponsoring fighting games, Cosplayer Jessica Nigri's run in with PAX East, Instagrams buyout, The BBC's beef with David Tennant, Spartacus and the Avengers. Hit the jump to watch it now.

Jessica Nigri is working on another Lollipop Chainsaw Alt costume and this time she wants the fans to decide! Go to http://www.jessicanigriofficial.com/lollipop-chainsaw-alternate-outfits/ and let her know what you want to see her in next!

The live action Mortal Kombat trailer has been released. It's a bit longer, and while not as spectacular and I would have hoped for, it still wasn't bad. Watch It After The Jump

The classic 4 disc RPG will be arriving on PSN on May 1st. Now I have spent MANY hours on this game before someone decided to erase my memory card, so I never had a chance to finish it. So my question to Sony: When can my Vita play PSOne Games?!?! Source: Playstation Blog

Shame on Namco Bandai for having an event in our back yard and not letting us know! Anyways, Namco Bandai announced Dragon Ball Z Kinect today for the XBOX 360. With a lineup of 50+  characters and over 100 moves, I foresee many injuries as well as broken TVs. Maybe something like this: Kid's Parents: How did you totally destroy the living room, break the TV, and send the cat out the windows?!?! Kid:  I was trying to stop Freiza from destroying Namek, and fluffy got in the way! Source: Destructoid

Also at Captivate, Capcom Announced Lost Planet 3! Lost Planet is a guilty pleasure of mine, so I am happy to see this coming for the XBOX 360, PS3, and PC! More After The Jump!

More info on the interesting Devil May Cry from Capcom and Ninja Theory. To be honest, I did enjoy Ninja Theory's last 2 games, Heavenly Sword and Enslaved, so I have high hopes for this one! Read More After The Jump!

Greetings Geeks, Marvel has released a new featurette on the Avengers courtesy of Total Film. UPDATE: We also have a clip of the infamous "We have a Hulk" speech. It's all after the jump.

Sorry for being a bit late on the following Capcom News, us Grotto Dwellers have been a bit busy lately! Last week, Capcom held their yearly Captivate Show in Rome. This week, we get to see what they showed off in that show! First up, Resident Evil 6! Read More And See The Screenshots After The Jump!

Project X Zone for the 3DS! Pronounced Project Cross Zone, this strategry RPG takes characters from all three companies  The last time we saw a crossover like this was the Japanese only PS2 release, Namco X Capcom. No detailed specifics for the game is available yet, but a trailer should be available soon. Read More After The Jump!

Greetings Geeks! It's no secret that I am a huge supporter of Google+. It's where the Grotto posts most of it's content. Facebook is nice, but where Facebook is like a family bar-b-que, Google+ is like a local coffee house. The people you meet on Google+ most likely aren't your family members. Oh they come to the coffee house as well, but you often find yourself talking to people who you ordinarily would never have met before. That's what I like about it. But I digress.... Engadget reported today that Google updated its flagship social product. As with most Mountain View projects, the new Google+ will rollout gradually. The UI has been given a major overhaul with a customizable shortcuts on the left and your buddy list moved to the right. The Hangouts feature will be getting their own dedicated home page too, allowing you to quickly peruse any Hangouts that are available to you. Even profiles are getting a dramatic facelift with larger photos and Sparks hav

The Anime Network Online will be premiering three new shows this week. Consisting of Akikan!, ef~A tale of melodies, and Polyphonica Crimson S. Read More After The Jump!

Greetings Geeks, Capcom sent us a press release today announcing the release of Sour Patch Kids: World Gone Sour for both the X-Box 360, PC and Playstation 3. All for the low price of $4.99 (400 XBox points)! What are you waiting for? Go download it before they get sour! Wow...that was a terrible pun. Full PR after the jump.

Our friends at Section23 Films has sent us a list of their releases from the month of July! Mostly Complete Collections, we see titles such as Needless, Hidamari Sketch Specials, Mahoromatic, and more! Read The press Release After The Jump!

Greetings Geeks! Here's a little featurette on Merida from Pixar's newest film Brave which is coming to theaters this summer. Source: Youtube

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a HUGE phenomenon in the '90s. It spawned a spin off series (Angel) and saw it's way to 7 successful seasons. Unfortunately, the fans and creator Joss Whedon wanted more. So it was several years later that Joss finally got his chance to create Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8...as a comic book. Dark Horse comics has now collected the first two arcs of Season 8, plus two one-shots into a gorgeous hard cover book. Hit the jump for my full review.

Greetings Geeks, Marvel posted a new clip from the Avengers. Check it out! Source: Marvel.com

Greetings Geeks! Capcom released a lengthy 8 minute cinematic back story for some of the new characters for Street Fighter X Tekken as well as some info on it's PS Vita release including a cross assault feature for the Vita! Hit the jump for all the Capcom goodies!

Greeting Geeks, As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother, I was thrilled to hear that my favorite television Canuck, Cobie Smulders would be playing the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. hard @$$ Maria Hill. Cobie was on David Letterman last night and brought with her a clip from The Avengers. So hit the jump to check out the embed and see Robin Sparkles as a bad@$$ secret agent!

Greetings Geeks, Engadget posted some interesting news today. After Toshiba's Thrive tablets were widely panned by tech reviewers and critics alike, Toshiba decided to go back to the drawing board. The Thrive has dgone the way of the Dodo and Toshiba now brings us the Excite 7.7, 10 and 13 . All three will have NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and Ice Cream Sandwich. The 13-incher steps up to 1600 x 900 resolution (as opposed to 1280 x 800) . Both the 10 and 13" sport a full-sized SD slot. However there was no room for full-sized USB and HDMI ports on tablets this thin. Notice that I kept bolding the 13 inch tablet . I understand that in a lot of cases "Bigger is better" but why would you want such a large tablet? Especially at the hefty price tag of $650 for 32GB or $750 for 64GB? I pose that question to you readers. What do you need a 13" Tablet for? Price points for the Excite 7.7: $500 for 16GB. $580 for 32GB. The Excite 10 starts at $500 for 16GB. $530 f

Greetings Geeks, In my usual daily Anime news fix, I stumbled upon the exciting news that the Berserk Trilogy of films based on the Kentaro Miura manga will be getting a 16 country release. Viz Media announced that they would be releasing the film in North America during their panel at Sakura-Con on Saturday. Berserk has been licensed for release in North America, Canada, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, and South Korea. A release date for any of these regions has not been announced but the good folks Viz announced that their North American edition would be out this fall. Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen I: Haō no Tamago opened in Japan on February 4. The film will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on May 23. Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen II: Doldrey Kōryaku (Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey) will be released in theaters in Japan on June 23. It focuses on the epic battle by the King

Greetings Geeks! Whovians the world over know and love David Tennant's performance of the wonderful time traveling lord of Gallifrey, Doctor Who. Well, British Tabloid The Mirror is reporting that the BBC is not too happy with David Tennant's recent Tivo commercial. According to the Mirror, the BBC feels that it is far too close to the portrayal of Dr. Who's 10th Doctor for which Tennant is widely known. We have the embed after the jump and I have to say that as good of an ad as it is, I don't really see the Doctor in it. I mean, Tennant's even using his normal Scottish accent. I don't know...Hit the jump to watch the embed and let us know what you think. Is Tennant channeling too much Doctor Who for this ad? And take it with a grain of salt. I mean, this IS The Mirror we are talking about.

Greetings Geeks! Marvel is going to be hosting a Red Carpet World Premiere event on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 starting at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET. for the world premiere of The Avengers! Clark Gregg aka Agent Coulson give us the info in this special Youtube embed from the House of Ideas. Hit the jump to watch the embed.

Greetings Geeks! The big news of the day is Instagram! Social media giant Facebook has bought the photo sharing app for a cool $1,000,000,000. That's $1 Billion! Facebook has no intention of closing the site or the app and also has no intention of limiting it's integration with competing social networks. But this does bring up an interesting thought. Google+ has Picasa integrated with it's Picnik image editor. This allows G+ users to do pretty much all the same things as Instagram. I wouldn't be surprised to see Facebook try integrating Instagram's feature set to it's own social network as a ways of competing. Not that they need it. But Zuckerberg must be sweating Google's social behemoth, otherwise, why bother? Especially with the price tag. What do you guys think?

Day 1 Left, Day 2 Right Just to be clear, Jessica Nigri was asked to leave and change, she was allowed back in... But on day 1 of PAX east, she went dressed as Lollipop Chainsaw's star, Juliet Starling, without issue. Day 2 she went dressed as the same character in one of the multiple alt costumes and asked to leave to change. She returned in the cheerleader uniform from day 1 she was asked to change again, cover up, or leave entirely! Did I mention she was at the WB Games booth and is the official character model for the game? So what's the point of this post? Most of the Grotto staff come from a place in the US where people can go grocery shopping wearing A LOT less than what Nigri had on! Now if she were dressed in one of the alternate costumes from Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball, then I can understand the issue. What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments below or on Google+ and after the break, see Nigri's Day 3 costume! Updated 4/9/2012: Added