‘WET’ soaks up retail spotlight in September
Courtesy of USA Today, we now have a release date for Eliza's new video game, WET -- September 15, 2009. 
The article is posted below.
Bethesda Softworks high-style action game WET is arriving on store shelves for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 15, the publisher announced in a statement.
The third-person shooter features Rubi Malone, a "gun-for-hire" voiced by actress Eliza Dushku, who is betrayed by a mysterious wealthy man while completing a job. The combat mixes third-person gunplay, swordfighting and acrobatic moves such as flips and wall-running.
"We’ve worked really hard to make WET different from any other action game available", says Patrick Fortier, Creative Director at developer A2M, in a statement.
WET will join games such as The Beatles: Rock Band, Need For Speed: Shift and Halo 3: ODST in the September release schedule.
New ‘WET’ Project?
It has been revealed that Eliza is in talks to make a live action film of her video game, WET, which has Eliza voicing the main character. How cool would that be? I suspect this is the big news that Eliza was teasing us with on Twitter. 
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E3 2009: Blast EIC falls in love…
Blast (Boston's online magazine) recently interviewed Eliza at the E3 summit about WET; the interview is posted below, it's a good read.
Blast got to chat with the one and only Eliza Dushku, star of the new Bethesda Softworks action title Wet.
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Eliza Dushku is so cool. She gives a firm handshake. She talks to everyone around her, even the burly security guard. And she gets really into watching people play her game.
Anyways, on with the beans we got her to spill.
BLAST: Is this your first video game?
ELIZA DUSHKU: No. I was in Buffy and and then the Yakuza game.
BLAST: What do you think of Wet so far?
ED: I’m into it, and I have a friend that came down to test out the game. He’s 14. His name is Kyle. He says it’s really good and I trust him.
BLAST: Is there a big difference between doing a video game voiceover and a movie voiceover and then just plain acting?
ED: Um. It depends. It’s just a whole different — it’s you, but it’s not. It’s kind of like for this video game I didn’t do all the body muscle stuff. I knew she already sort of had a rhythm, and I felt in a way more like I was getting into her established character and trying to find the right fit, you know what I mean, to give her.
I actually decided that I should smoke a few cigarettes each time we did it. My friend was like “your voice is so low,” and I was like “yeah that’s the cigarettes.” I quit smoking, but I was like “eh, it’s for work.”
BLAST: Have you had a chance to play through Wet and see yourself in action?
ED: Just a little bit. It’s awesome and I love, you know, that Tarantino, “Kill Bill” look to it — the whole 70s, grainy, the music. I think its really sexy. It’s sexy and it’s exciting and she’s a real working class Lara Croft, Jack Daniels-confident, tough, hard as nails, she’s international. She’s in Hong Hong and the UK, and she’s going wherever she needs to go to take care of business.
Eliza Voicing ‘WET’
Another project to add to Eliza's resume! Eliza is the voice of the character Rubi Malone, a hired killer, in a brand new video game titled WET (for "wet work," as in assassinations); an extract about the game is posted below.
"She's hard," Dushku says. "She's Jack Daniels-drinking, catted-up and aggressive, and she's really there to get the job done. Anyone or anything that gets in her way is a casualty."
"In my mind, she's really like a working-class Lara Croft. And I love the scope of it. It plays out in Arizona, San Francisco, Hong Kong and the U.K. I love that she's on the move and that she's international like me."
Raven-haired Rubi wields guns and swords while performing Matrix-style acrobatics. "The way you can make her move is extraordinary," says Dushku, who recently returned to the studio for new dialogue. "They've made it a little more mature. Added a few more F-bombs. So my nephews won't be able to play it for maybe five years."
Due this fall for PS3 and Xbox 360, WET's storyline was created by screenwriter Duppy Demetrius (24, The Closer) and also features Malcolm McDowell.
Source: USA Today
Spike announces Video Game Awards nominees
The sixth annual Video Game Awards will be broadcast live Dec. 14 from Sony Picture Studios in Culver City, Calif. The ceremony will feature 50 Cent performing "Get Up" to footage of his upcoming game, "50 Cent: Blood in the Sand," as well as world-premiere footage from other games.
The awards show won't be without some celebrity winners. Actors and actresses who lent their voices to games are also nominated. Ricky Gervais, Kiefer Sutherland, Liam Neeson and Daniel Craig will compete for Big Name In The Game - Male; Jenny McCarthy, Liv Tyler, Eliza Dushku (as "Shaundi" in Saints Row 2) and Judi Dench will face off for Big Name In The Game - Female.
Source: Associated Press
Eliza Voicing New Video Game
Eliza is voicing Saints Row 2 alongside Neil Patrick Harris, Daniel Dae Kim, and Jaime Pressly, to name a few. The game was released on October 14, 2008 by Sony. IGN.com has a video online with the cast discussing the game & their characters -- I've made captures of Eliza's segments as well as her character; gallery link and previews are below, enjoy!
Gallery Link
- Talent Voice Over Captures