[via IGN]

For you to get a clear view of how our world theoretically ends, click the HD button on the player. [HellForLeather, YouTube via BuzzNewsroom]

We can't wait to get our butts in the theater seats when Terminator: Salvation hits on May 21st, but in the meantime we'll be checking out this latest robo ass-kicking trailer released by Warner Bros.
[via traileraddicts]

The website is put together as a faux corporate page for Skynet Research, or at least what the corporate homepage would have looked like before Judgement Day. It's pretty standard fare, "Who we are," "Products," "Testimonials," "Outreach," and "Communications" all narrated by a detached generic female voice. Click through into products though and you can see the embryonic elements of humanities destruction, including this bad boy: the Skynet Research Autonomous Mass Transit Bot. Warner Brothers Skynet Research describes this tracked transit bot in the following way:

Description:
Safety comes first and foremost with the Skynet line of transport. Our line of robotic people movers features the latest in both GPS navigation and terrain mapping to aid in the first true ‘program and forget' product for transportation. Independent evolvable ‘Transpo-Al'™ translates into smooth operation and easy large-scale integration into complex systems.
Specifications:
Two parallel base segmented grinder class tracks; X08 Model Chassis with additional multi-valve Cylinder Scope; Hybrid Alloy central mechanism Processing Coolant; Self-charging Ion Combustible Power Cell; Driverless correction enabled Transpo-Al™ Navigation Core Index; Full Spectrum Sensor Module; Dual Insulated Human Containment Vessel Frame

This means it's perfect for transporting meaty experiment subjects from the field to testing facilities. Notice how it's got a set-it-and-forget-it GPS feature, that can only mean one thing, BMW is going to become Skynet. Watch for further "viral" marketing to come out of this website as the source code is chock-full of easter eggs which currently lead to nowhere. [Skynet Research (Warner Bros)]

Feel free to check out the rest over at Wired, but be warned, there be spoilers ahead! [via Wired]

This week has been a monumental week for Chrysler, LLC. First, announcing they’d create a global partnership with Fiat, but that wasn’t the only partnership this week.

They’ve also announced a sponsorship deal with the producers of Terminator: Salvation for an undisclosed amount of cash. For those of you wondering why that’s such a big deal — or if maybe you’ve been living in a cave for the last six months — that cash, the very little they have, is part of the $4 billion taxpayer-funded government bailout package that was handed out this past month.

Chrysler refused to comment on the cost of the deal, but their director of media, Susan Thompson had this to say:

This spring, Terminator 4 comes out and we will be one of the sponsors. We have a following with the Terminator movies and we are going to continue with that."

We’re not sure what kind of a following they have since the last Terminator movie featured Toyota products, but we’ll let them think there's some kind of a connection between the films and Chrysler. I think they may mean the existing relationship they have with the TV show, but forgive Thompson for being confused, we hear the plotline of how the TV show and movies fit together is similarly confusing.

But, we must remember, this isn't the first time Chrysler's paid to play — last we remember, the Fantastic Four "Fantasticar" had a HEMI.

Terminator: Salvation starring Christian Bale, opens in the U.S. on May 22, just two months prior to Chrysler going back to congress to seek an additional $3 billion in taxpayer-funded government loans.

[via Reuters]

We had already seen all the elements of this new trailer at the beginning of November, but in the latest trailer which has made its way onto the web early thanks to some enterprising young Japanese fan-boys, we're able to see it all nicely tied together. This new trailer shows the motorcycle terminators out doing their thing, the monstrous harvesters, and what we assume is a heated face-to-face exchange between John Connor and a restrained Terminator. We rolled our eyes when we first heard there was to be another Terminator movie, but this is actually looking like it's going to be pretty awesome. [TrailerAddict]

"There are no fewer than 10 new Terminators in this film, and Laing and company have obviously thought really carefully about exactly where Skynet's minions would be in their evolution during this time period. There's no need for the Terminators to appear human, so they show up in various forms, including the giant Transformers-esque Harvester, the motorcycle Moto-Terminators, and the underwater versions, which you can see snapping at John Connor in a brief clip."

Yeah, sure, it ain't no Dodge Ram, but that's probably a good thing. [io9]