Photos of the real-life Tenacious D guitar

As you may remember me pointing out last week, those who sign up for the official Brutal Legend newsletter stand a chance of winning a real-life Tenacious D guitar — also featured in Brutal Legend itself as an in-game collectable for people who pre-order the game.

During the E3 excitement, Tim Schafer naturally had to show off this gift from the metal gods:

If you watch to watch the whole presentation, head over to the updated official E3 Brutal Legend site.

Read the Tim Schafer Twitter chat transcript

With the Tim Schafer Twitter chat now over, quite a lot of interesting little tidbits were shared. For example, we know know that there’ll be at least four entirely different vehicles for you to drive, that Mykal was right about the mysterious flag being relevant, and that Tim is willing to do a sequel if the opportunity arises.

If you want to wade through the Twitter logs yourself, head over to the official Brutal Legend Twitter page. You’ll probably prefer to read the formatted version below though, which makes this the longest BRUTAL! post ever! Continue Reading »

Tim Schafer presentation, featuring videos and Ozzy Osbourne

As promised last week, E3 is now fully underway and some serious Brutal Legend media has started to hit the fan. Tim Schafer has given a video presentation which unveils lot of juicy stuff — such as that Prince of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne is in the game!

During the video Tim talks about the game and what it’s all about to his audience, then goes onto premiere a brand new trailer and the second episode of ‘Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black’, which itself contains some new footage.

There’s quite a lot of stuff we’ve never seen before in this video, including brief clips of characters we know about but haven’t seen, the tour bus, headbangers in action, etc. Just watch it because there’s too much to summarise.

I’m going to be putting up standalone HD versions of the videos tonight, so keep an eye on the Community Tracker and/or BRUTAL! YouTube channel for those. Same goes for screenshots.

Brutal Legend to appear on Spike TV tonight

Spike TV is airing a new Brutal Legend video tonight during their pre-show E3 programme. You can see a small preview of the show on the Spike TV website, although nothing to do with Brutal Legend is shown — you’ll have to wait until the actual show for that.

The programme begins at 11pm tonight. It’s not clear which time zone that actually is, so if you’re in the US simply consult your TV schedule. If you’re in Europe, you’ll probably be in bed when it airs!

Due to Spike TV’s relationship with GameTrailers the video will almost certainly appear on there afterwards, so I’ll update this post with the video once it’s available.

Update

[May 29th, 2009 at 9:25am GMT+1] As expected the video is now available on GameTrailers. It’s actually a minute from one of the game’s early cutscenes rather than a trailer, so depending on your sensitivity to spoilers you may or may not want to give it a miss.

Prepare for the most brutal E3 yet

As you’re probably aware, E3 is a yearly trade show that brings together the games industry and press. Although it looked like the event was history a couple of years ago, it’s returning to full throttle this year — and it’s opening up to regular consumers, too.

It’s going to be an especially exciting week for Brutal Legend fans. To get things started, Brutal Legend designer Tim Schafer is going to open himself up to questions from Twitter-using followers of the game on June 2nd.

All you have to is message @BrutalLegend with the hashtag #E3BL after 6pm PST on June 2nd. If you don’t have a Twitter account, head over to the official Brutal Legend E3 site for an alternative way to submit questions. You’ll also find a countdown to the chat event.

And while you’re on the official Brutal Legend E3 site, you’ll notice that not only is there a new ‘Brutal Thoughts with Jack Black’ video coming on June 2nd called ‘Human Video Game’, but you can also win a real-life version of the Tenacious D guitar! Simply sign up for the official newsletter to stand a chance of caressing that sweet, sweet guitar.

Besides all this, expect a slew of new Brutal Legend previews, media, etc next week!