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The following contains spoilers for Third Eye, now available on Audible.

Actor and writer Felicia Day is best known for creating the web series The Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption. Combining fantasy and nerd culture, Day has opened up endless worlds of possibilities for her imagination to run wild. Her newest Audible Original series, Third Eye, is no different.

Third Eye is a love letter to the fantasy genre set in present-day San Francisco. Along with being the creator of the series, Day voices Laurel, a "Chosen One" wizard who failed to defeat the evil Tybus as a teenager. Now, many years later, a young and ambitious girl named Kate pushes Laurel back into the world of magic, helping her grow past her failures and free the world from Tybus' reign. Day sat down with Cbr to talk about the years-long development of Third Eye and inviting notable names like...

Wayside Creations is best known for their fan-filmed series Fallout: Nuka Break, but Finnish video game developer Almost Human hopes they’ll become even more well-known for their upcoming fan-filmed series, Legend of Grimrock. The several-episode program that will eventually be combined into a feature-length film is based on Almost Human’s video game of the same name. The developer is marketing the video game version as “the ultimate dungeon crawling RPG” and it’s using the forthcoming series created by Wayside Creations to help further spread the word. Legend of Grimrock is the product of an interesting and unprecedented relationship between rights holders and creators. We’ve seen crowdfunding campaigns based on pre-existing intellectual property, in which the creators of the fan film or series either couldn’t make a profit on their work (as was the case with Wayside’s very own Fallout: Nuka Break) or were served...

"Tell me who you are!" There is a worth watching short film going around the web called Logan, that is indeed inspired by a certain comic book character of the same name. It's made by two Swedish filmmakers named André Hedetoft and Andreas Climent, a regular reader of Fs who has been emailing about it as well. The short is out in full via Vimeo and stars Tobias Nilsson as "Logan", plus Kola Krauze ("Wallander") and Deepak Tara. This is described simply as "a dark Scandinavian spin on the origin of Wolverine." Obviously it gets a bit bloody, but beyond that it's just a well-made short film. And it's all in English. Enjoy! Logan is short action thriller with comic book inspiration directed by Andreas Climent and André Hedetoft. Embedded in high def from Vimeo. The music is by S. Peace Nistades ("Dragon Age: Redemption"). As explained in the summary,...

We’re all very familiar with the character Wolverine (played so brilliantly in the X-Men movies by Hugh Jackman) but we’ve never really seen what happened to him when he was younger. Two Swedish film makers have decided it’s about time we saw a little from his past and have created a 5 minute short film they’ve called ‘Logan’.

Title: LoganDirectors: Andreas Climent and André Hedetoft.Cast: Kola Krauze (“Wallander”, “Solsidan”), Tobias Nilsson and Deepak Tara.Visual effects by Martin Kupski (“Hellboy 2″, “Ninja Assassin”).Music composed by S. Peace Nistades (“Dark Woods”, “Dragon Age: Redemption”).More Info: LoganShort.com

A lone man locked inside a dark room is violently interrogated about his identity. When his captors finally find out who he is, they realize that he isn’t locked in with them, they are the ones locked in with him…

Please note, this short film contains violence and is Nsfw.

Swedish directors Andreas Climent and André Hedetoft were apparently sitting around the house one day and wondered: “Hey, what would happen if some dude caught Wolverine back when he was still a young teen name Logan and beat the crap out of him?” Well, as it turns out, bad things happen. To, er, the dude. Check out a new fanmade short film that wonders how a young Logan would deal with a brutal interrogation from Climent and Hedetoft, simply titled “Logan”. Like most fanmade short films, the payoff is at the end. Starring Kola Krauze (“Wallander”, “Solsidan”), Tobias Nilsson and Deepak Tara. Visual effects by Martin Kupski (“Hellboy 2″, “Ninja Assassin”). Music composed by S. Peace Nistades (“Dark Woods”, “Dragon Age: Redemption”). Check out the “Logan” Official Site. Or visit them on Facebook. Logan from Andreas Climent on Vimeo...

Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling) has joined the Brad Krevoy project as a love interest for English actor Adam Rayner ( Hawthorne,Dragon Age: Redemption ), who portrays Simon Templar in a backdoor pilot (A backdoor pilot is a television movie which is used to gauge audience interest. If popular, the tv movie will go on to become a television series). Simon West ( Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2) is directing the pilot from a script by Jesse Alexander (Heroes, Alias). Simon Templar was created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint", which lasted nearly 60 years. The Saint has previously given the small and big screen treatment including a 1960s series starring Roger Moore, and a 1997 film starring Val Kilmer. A British intellectual property, The Saint has often drawn comparisons to James Bond. Related Content: Looking Back at Joss...

Dark Horse Comics is taking its adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain vampire trilogy to the next level with an animated video version of it launching today on Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry YouTube channel. Check it out right here!

Synopsis:

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event--an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness.

Based on the Dark Horse Comics series The Strain (more info here) from director Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves). The executive producers for Dark Horse Motion Comics are Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible, Eureka), Kim Evey (The Guild, Dragon Age: Redemption...

In a recent event to promote her new YouTube channel, Geek and Sundry (an event which was, incidentally, the largest-scale Google + Hangout that there’s been so far), web series queen Felicia Day (The Guild, Dragon Age: Redemption) briefly addressed her friend Joss Whedon’s upcoming superhero flick The Avengers, saying: “I know a couple of people in it, but some of them might be spoilers so I really can’t say.”

This could mean that The Avengers features Awesome Secret Surprise Cameos, or just that, in order to avoid spoilers, Felicia Day’s erring on the safe side. But for the purposes of crazed fanboy speculation, we shall assume the former, and hope for cameos as brilliant as those in The Muppets.

[Casting speculation spoilers follow.]

Having played roles in the Joss Whedon productions Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog, Felicia Day knows quite a few Whedon alums,...

Geek goddess Felicia Day (The Guild, Dragon Age: Redemption) has unveiled her YouTube Channel, Geek & Sundry, at WonderCon on Saturday. What sorts of online goodies will this channel offer? Well, in addition to six brand spanking new shows, season five of The Guild will air beginning in April.

Day’s energy is contagious as she beamed excitement about the new online content offered by Geek & Sundry saying:

“Every single show is like a piece of love. We’re really excited to create a whole new community around these shows.”

Here’s an overview of Geek & Sundry:

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Here’s the lowdown on the Geek and Sundry line-up with their individual trailers:

The Flog, hosted by Felicia Day, where she investigates “whatever the hell I wanted to that week.” I don’t know about you, but a day in the life of Felicia Day is already fraught with awesomeness,...

Is it better when a studio adapts a video game into a big-budget film with big name stars but then completely slaughters the story and turns it into some unrecognizable mess or when a low-budget production gives the fans six episodic entries that are decently written but horribly acted and filmed? It’s debatable. The latter is more likely to include fan-favorite elements that a studio would overlook in its attempt to make it universally appealing, but at the same time, it’s going to be all but impossible to watch by anyone who isn’t wholly forgiving purely because they’re getting to see their favorite game on the screen. Really, both versions require an apologist fan mentality to ever be considered good; and that holds true in the case of Dragon Age: Redemption, both written by and starring Felicia Day. This isn’t a well done fantasy series,...

It doesn't come as much of a surprise that a spinoff series has emerged from the popular "Dragon Age" video game universe but rather that it has taken this long for it appear but when Felicia Day was asked to voice the character of Tallis, an elven assassin, the doors cracked open and Dragon Age: Redemption was born.

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Web series favorite Felicia Day is at it again! In 2011, Day had great success with the fifth season of The Guild and the debut of her Bioware/ Machinima series Dragon Age: Redemption, but it looks like she has even bigger plans for 2012. On Friday, Day #Ff her new company Geek and Sundry. Day tweeted to her followers that the new project will be "bringing you awesome web video awesomeness very soon!" Now, it is no secret that I am a big fan of Felicia Day and her work. The moment I saw this announcement I wanted to learn more. Beyond the description of offering "Eccentricities for your Entertainment," however, Geek and Sundry remains a mystery for the moment. The first and only video on the Geek and Sundry Youtube channel is a simple welcome message from Felicia Day herself. Day's introduction does not give much away about her new project,...

The season finale or Dragon Age: Redemption dropped today. Now, if you haven’t been watching Da:r (that’s how us viewers / cool kids write it), it’s a web series-gaming crossover from BioWare, Machinima, and online video sweetheart Felicia Day. This sixth and final weekly episode, dubbed Saarebas brings the story of Day’s ‘knife eared’ Evlin assassin Tallis to a climax and demonstrates the epic live-action world Day created based on a video game. I must confess, I’m not an avid player of Dragon Age the game. I only started watching Da:r because of Felicia Day. I’m a long-time fan of her seasoned web series The Guild. But last February, when Day showed a teaser trailer of her upcoming original web series on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that was enough to get me to tune in. Felicia Day with elf ears? Sold! Though when the...

Today marks the release of the first episode of Dragon Age: Redemption, a new web series based on the popular BioWare video game series.

The series stars Felicia Day (The Guild) and Doug Jones (Hellboy) and is produced by Day's own production company, Knight of Good. The series focuses on Tallis (Day), an elf working for the Qunari, one of the groups in the fictional world of Dragon Age. She is tasked to track down Saarebas (Jones) a renegade mage of the Qunari who has escaped prison. But why am I telling you about it when you should just be watching it yourself.

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Day and company have done a great job with this project, which makes sense, what with Day working for years on her own series, The Guild. They are the perfect company to handle this kind of web-series and judging from this first episode,...

A screengrab from ‘Dragon Age: Redemption”

In her latest web series, actress and web entrepreneur Felicia Day swaps being a video game player for being an actual video game character.

Day is the star and writer of “Dragon Age: Redemption,” a new six-part web series whose first episode debuts today on video game network Machinima. The series is an extension of Electronic Arts’ video game series of the same name, and is designed to engage consumers about the franchise.

Day,...

The premiere of the sure to be fanboy/girl favorite original companion web series to video game publisher BioWare’s role-playing title Dragon Age II went live late last night/early this morning on Machinima’s YouTube channel. The first of six installments of Dragon Age: Redemption introduces us to our star Felicia Day’s character Tallis, an ‘knife eared’ Elvin assassin in moderately protective fantasy armor with crazy skills on the hunt for the dangerous and recently escaped Qunari mage Cerebus. Take a look: In addition to slaughtering pigs and humans in front of the camera, Day contributed a helluva lot to the series behind the camera, too. She wrote Redemption, executive produced the series along with Kim Evey and Dan Kaplow, and her Knights of Good Productions (the same crew behind her uber-hit web series The Guild) took on the physical production duties of the program. We caught...

From MTV Geek:

A while back we heard that HBO Go would be showing up on Xbox Live in the not too distant future. With incredible original series’ like Game of Thrones and Bored to Death you can imagine how excited we were. Now, Microsoft has released the official announcement and blown us away by not only confirming HBO Go, but revealing over 50 other worldwide media partners coming to Xbox Live.

As if HBO Go wasn’t enough Bravo, Manga Entertainment, SyFy and a bunch of others will also be joining the lineup -- turning Xbox Live into a true entertainment hub. The folks out there subscribed to Comcast or Verizon Fios cable plans will also be able to access their provider’s on-demand services such as Comcast’s Xfinity TV.

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The Guild creator Felicia Day puts on the elf ears in this trailer for the six-part Dragon Age web series.

Dark fantasy RPG fans, check out this trailer for the upcoming web series, Dragon Age: Redemption, which ties into Bioware's console/PC release, Dragon Age 2. Day stars alongside Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, John Dies at the End) in this side story tied into the upcoming "Mark of the Assassin" Dlc which launches next week on the PC, Xbla, and Psn. Day's character in Redemption, the Elf assassin, Tallis, joins the game's protagonist Hawke in a quest to steal a precious relic. Day, of course, reprises her role as Tallis for the game.

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Felicia Day first announced in February she would play the role of writer, co-producer and Tallis, a headstrong, sarcastic, dirty fightin’ elvin assassin in the live-action iteration of the uber-popular video game Dragon Age. A week later, Day and Jimmy Falon showed people who watch Late Night a trailer of the Dragon Age: Redemption original web series. Today Day, Dragon Age creator BioWare, and the entertainment industry’s go-to distributor of high-profile, gamer oriented online originals, Machinima, let the internet know when you’ll be able to catch the premiere. The first of six weekly installments of Dragon Age: Redemption will debut on Tuesday, October 11 on Machinima’s YouTube channel. That’s the same date BioWare will make available the next downloadable content package for Dragon Age II. Mark of the Assassin will reportedly feature Day’s live-action character Tallis in game. Here’s the Redemption trailer to whet your appetite for flesh and bone,...

BioWare has announced the next add-on for Dragon Age II. 'Mark of the Assassin' will be released on October 11 and features the voice talent of The Guild actress Felicia Day. Day will reprise the role of Tallis which she first played in the web series Dragon Age: Redemption. Tallis is described as a "mysterious female Elven assassin" who teams up with Hawke to steal an "ancient relic from an Orlesian Baron in his well-guarded estate". BioWare continued: "A cross between Varric and Isabela, Tallis is a rogue who introduces a new fighting style to add more variety in (more)...

The Guild panel at Comic-Con is about as close as the web series world has to a Steve Jobs keynote. The annual tradition packs the Indigo Ballroom at the San Diego Hilton with 1600 or more teeming Guild fans ready to see what rabbit Felicia Day and company have to pull out of their hats as a new season gets under way. The tricky part is their jaw-dropping previous years’ surprises set a bar even themselves would have a hard time besting. Who can forget two years ago when the cast strode out in full Guild avatar costumes to debut their mega-hit—17.5 million views and iTunes best-selling—music video, “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?” followed by Wil Wheaton himself announcing his addition to the cast. Then there was last year’s Bollywood-themed “Game On” music video—with 2.3 million views—that would even top Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” on the iTunes charts for paid downloads.

This has become an annual tradition for us here at Tubefilter, and it’s been a popular one as we sort through the hundreds of panels, screenings, signings and parties at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 to bring you fine readers our best picks for web series and online video specific events. It all starts this Thursday, and some don’t miss events this year include The Guild’s (possible final) appearance at Sdcc, The Mercury Men’s panel with Syfy, a Dr. Horrible sing-a-long, ElfQuest, and, oh hey there, a little Tubefilter-sponsored New Media Meetup in San Diego. And if this is your first time braving the teeming masses at Sdcc, be sure to check out this handy video on What to Pack for Comic-Con from Elisabeth at Tfaw.com. Web Video Related Panels, Events And Screenings At Comic-con 2011 (As always, we’ll keep updating this list as we hear of new events or schedule changes.

Comic-Con International has unleashed the full schedule for Wednesday and Thursday for the San Diego Comic-Con 2011, and there is going to be a ton of stuff to keep you incredibly busy and entertained.

Like I've been saying it's never to early to start planning, and there is a ton of stuff here that we are looking forward to checking out. I've gone through the list and put exclamation points next to all of the events that we are looking forward to attending. What panels and events are you looking forward to?

We will be at Comic-Con in full force this year, bringing you everything you need and want to know about. We will also be having a GeekTyrant meet-up this year, which we announce soon.

See you at the con!

Wednesday July 20th

!!! 6:00-9:00 Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings: Alcatraz, Person of Interest, The Secret Circle, and Supernatural...