Guy Pearce Just a Cameo in Iron Man 3?

Ha! Remember when Guy Pearce starred in that remake of The Time Machine? Well, that almost-forgotten film was mentioned in a new interview with the actor, where he also let drop that his role in Iron Man 3 is essentially a cameo.

"The main difference was that, when I did The Time Machine, I was pretty much in all of it, so it was a really grueling experience," he told Vulture. "Prometheus and Iron Man are really kind of cameo stuff, so the experience of shooting them ... I mean, on some level, it's tricky because you feel like a bit of an outsider. You don’t really live the experience that you do when you're there all day every day with everybody. But at the same time, it can be more fun sometimes because you're just working in concentrated spurts."

Pearce also talked about how he almost played Daredevil back in the day.

"The thing about Daredevil was that it was the role of Daredevil [that I didn't want to do]," he recalls. "Certainly in those days ... it was 10 years ago. I've probably loosened up, and I feel a little more experimental in what I'll take on these days, but I still don't know that I would want to play the superhero myself, since I'm playing a different kind of character in this film. And I think that, based on the first two movies, there's a great chemistry between Robert [Downey Jr.] and Gwyneth [Paltrow], and I just think the films have a fun, joyful sort of quality about them. I've just enjoyed them. So I just felt like I wanted to be a part of this."

Read the full interview at Vulture, where the actor also talks a bit about Prometheus.

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Team Fortress 2 Adding Co-op

Valve Software is adding cooperative play to Team Fortress 2. Called Mann vs. Machine, this mode allows teams of six to see how long they can survive against waves of robot enemies who seek to plant a bomb. The craziest part about the announcement, though? That it's coming out for free this Wednesday, August 15th.

The enemy robots you fight are mechanical takes on the Team Fortress 2 crew. For instance there's the Minor League Scout, a bat wielding robot who tries to temporarily stun you. Or there's the Heavyweight Champ, a headgear-adorned take on the Heavy that attempts to beat you down and, per the official website, "attacks in large groups."Additionally, players will have to deal with walking bombs who set out to destroy emplacements as well as gigantic, gun-wielding robots.

The human team, referred to as mercs, will be able to "take advante of breaks between waves to upgrade [their] abilities and weapons." The cooperative mode will include a number of new maps specifically designed to take advantage of Mann vs. Machine.

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Alledged Xbox 720 Dev Kit Sold on eBay

One of the alledged Xbox 720 development kits (codenamed Durango) has been sold on eBay for £12,833 (or $20,100).

The machine was sold by a man going under the alias of DaE, who appears to be the same individual that leaked the first images of the dev kit as well as last week's reported pictures of Kinect 2.0.

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I sold one of two I own. I still have the one that featured in news, the other one wasn't really necessary to keep as a leg rest.

He announced on Twitter that, "I sold one of two I own. I still have the one that featured in news, the other one wasn't really necessary to keep as a leg rest."

The online auction attracted 43 bids from 18 bidders. The winner, ****x, didn't bid until quite late in proceedings but jumped the price from $16,000 to $20,000 in a single bid.

While DaE's recent tweets suggest that he doesn't foresee any problems with the sale, it'll be interesting to see if Microsoft remains silent or gets involved. Traditionally, dev kits and the like remain property of the console manufacturer but are technically "loaned out" to developers to use under strict guidelines. The legal implications of selling one for profit are presumably pretty hefty.

We first heard about the Durango development kit back in February thanks to a tweet from Crytek, though Microsoft is yet to confirm the existence of the device or its codename.

Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant and has never really been good with eBay. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.

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