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Gay comic book superheroes have been created before, to more or less success. DC Comics is also planning to switch it up a bit by outing an established character, it has emerged. Twitter is on fire with speculation on who that might be. Just recently, DC Comics announced that it would be adding new characters to wh... |
22 May 2012
05:48 GMT |
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The comic book and movie-oriented teams at the Marvel Studios were intimately involved with the development of the upcoming Avengers Chronicles expansion for Marvel Pinball, giving the developers ideas on how to translate the superhero experience to the classic medium of pinball.
Chris Baker, who is the interactive ... |
7 May 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Rockstar Games is busy preparing the launch of Max Payne 3 in May but the developer has also announced that it’s partnering with Marvel for a special three-part comic book series that acts as a prequel for the new game.Max Payne 3 is set to deliver a whole new third person shooter experience that continues the ... |
21 April 2012
00:41 GMT |
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The development team at Beenox and publisher Activision Blizzard have launched a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, showing the well-known comic book character as he battles a gigantic metal spider which is apparently called a Rhino.The Rhino name for the giant metal spider is somewhat confusing, as in the Marve... |
18 February 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Disney has announced that its subsidiary Playdom is now at work on a new Facebook based social game that will be called Marvel: Avengers Alliance and will allow players to recruit their own group of heroes and battle villains as they solve quests and protect the innocent.The comic b... |
11 January 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3, the role playing game and action hybrid that developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts will launch in March of this year, will get a new comic book series for promotional purposes and the main character for the first issues will be a new side kick called James Vega.Previous comic books associated... |
6 January 2012
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Warner Bros. has released Batman Arkham City Lockdown, the latest installment in the action game series - now powered by Epic’s awesome Unreal Engine 3.Boasting crisp graphics matched only by the likes of Infinity Blade (also powered by Epic’s graphics engine), Batman Arkham City Lockdown delves players i... |
8 December 2011
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Video game developer BioWare has announced that it was working with Dark Horse in order to launch a comic book series based on the Dragon Age universe, which will appear on a bi-weekly basis for three months during early 2012.Mike Laidlaw made the reveal at the New York Comic Con event and says that each issue will h... |
18 October 2011
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Microsoft has not held a traditional news conference at the Gamescom 2011 trade event and has chosen to allow individual teams to talk on their own about future projects and about upcoming releases, which means that all those involved with Gears of War 3 faced a lot of questions about the future of the franchise.At t... |
17 August 2011
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Superman / Clark Kent and Lois Lane have been married since 1996 and, to fans’ knowledge, they have been very happy so far. With the new line that will roll out in September this year, DC Comics will present a new side of Superman: that of a single man. Superman and Lois Lane will go their separate ways because... |
19 July 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Human Torch is no more: following many weeks of speculation, Marvel has gone ahead and killed one of the superheroes in the “Fantastic Four” comics. They will be known from now on solely as “Fantastic Three.” As CoffeToday also points out, ever since Marvel announced back in December that one ... |
26 January 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Sega is continuing its partnership with comic book company Marvel and has announced that it is developing a title based on the popular Captain America hero, entitled Captain America: Super Soldier, that will debut alongside the official movie set to be released next year.
Sega isn't at its first super hero ga... |
7 October 2010
02:29 GMT |
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This is the announcement fans have dying to hear for years: Wonder Woman is coming back to the screen. David E. Kelley is confirmed to write and produce a new television series around the adventures of the beloved heroine.The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision has all the details of the upcoming project, underlin... |
2 October 2010
05:29 GMT |
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In March this year, confirmation finally came that Chris Evans had accepted Marvel’s offer to be the lead in “Captain America,” yet another film that will hopefully turn out into a bankable franchise. Shooting for the film is now underway in Manchester for that old town feeling needed for 1940s scen... |
27 September 2010
03:57 GMT |
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Famous comics writer Stan Lee, the creator of such characters like Spider-Man or Wolverine, has written a special letter, designed to support video games in face of California's new law, designed to limit access to violent titles.As you all know, California is once again trying to crack down on violent video gam... |
21 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Though his take on the angry green monster The Hulk in the 2008 movie “The Incredible Hulk” was not welcomed by the fan community as warmly as the movie studio may have hoped, Edward Norton was supposed to reprise the part in Marvel’s 2012 “The Avengers,” coming to join an A-list cast. J... |
12 July 2010
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Marvel, the well-known comic book company, and 343 Industries, the Microsoft spinoff in charge of developing the overall Halo universe, have announced that during this September, fans of the long running videogame series will have a chance to pick up a comic book series based on the Halo: Fall of Reach novel. The tea... |
23 June 2010
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As you all know, yesterday was the first day of the GamesCon conference in Cologne, Germany, and it was also the day when Sony decided to hold its press conference in order to announce new and exciting things regarding its hardware and software lineup. The first platform to be talked about was the company's Pla... |
19 August 2009
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Warner Bros. is currently working on bringing yet another loved superhero to life on the big screen, Green Lantern from DC Comics. The competition for the part was tight but, in the end, it came down to three candidates: Ryan Reynolds, Bradley Cooper and Jared Leto. Reynolds has just been chosen for the coveted part ... |
13 July 2009
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Comic books have served as the basis for a lot of interesting projects lately, either coming from Hollywood or from various video game companies, which transfer heroes from the graphic novels onto the screens of players all around the world. One of the most recent endeavors in both entertainment mediums is Watchmen, ... |
8 July 2009
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Comic books have been quite popular over the years, transforming their characters into pop culture icons. As such, other entertainment genres couldn't have left them unexploited and video games were no exception, as they feature a lot of heroes or villains from comics. One of the latest examples is Rocksteady S... |
4 June 2009
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Comic books have been the basis for other entertainment forms to get ideas from and turn into a much more mainstream experience. The Watchmen series of graphic novels has been one of the latest to receive such a treatment, as a movie and a video game have been recently made. Both the movie and the first episode of t... |
25 May 2009
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Hollywood is seemingly on a roll with comic book adaptations as we've seen quite a lot of them recently, Batman, Ironman or Watchmen included. Even though Wolverine was the main character in all of the X-Men movies made up until now, his success has finally resulted in a solo-movie treatment, in the form of X-Me... |
8 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Comic books have offered a lot of material for other branches of the entertainment industry, spanning from movies to TV series. But the gaming industry hasn't been oblivious to them and has turned to them in order to get stories and heroes for different video games. The most recent company to take on a comic bo... |
4 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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2008 was one of the biggest years in gaming as a lot of great titles appeared last year. 2009, however, is looking to be even better in terms of new titles, as well as highly anticipated sequels. We've already heard Activision brag about how Modern Warfare 2, the follow-up to one of biggest games of 2007, Call o... |
13 April 2009
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Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially for gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel, DC or any other comics company, the market is filled with them.But NCsoft, the publisher of titles such as Guild Wars or... |
13 April 2009
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The Watchmen lineup of graphic novels is the most acclaimed series of comic books ever created, according to a lot of specialists. Its deep and intricate story coupled with the minute background stories on each and every character have made it a favorite for a lot of people around the world. Now, as the movie has ju... |
16 March 2009
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For those of you who don't know, the Watchmen series of comic books is one of the most critically acclaimed graphic novel series of all time. Telling a deep and intricate story about some masked heroes very different from the ones we are used to, the series has been carefully handled by DC Comics.Now, as the mov... |
13 March 2009
17:11 GMT |
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The culture of videogaming and that of comics are quite intertwined. Of course, there are videogames based on comic books, but publishers, like Electronic Arts with last year's Dead Space, have begun to see limited runs of comic books as an efficient means of promoting upcoming videogames.Now, one retailer is ta... |
3 March 2009
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Midway Games, one of the companies hardest hit by the world wide economic crisis, is announcing that its title Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has sold more than 1.8 million units since launch. The game is currently available on the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony. It's not clear... |
27 January 2009
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The hit Trading Card Game and the Marvel Universe come together in the digital world, based on Upper Deck Entertainment's best-selling Vs. System Trading Card Game. Marvel Trading Card Game features the popular comic company's complete stable of characters such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, Ghost ... |
28 November 2008
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The hit Trading Card Game and the Marvel Universe come together in the digital world, based on Upper Deck Entertainment's best-selling Vs. System Trading Card Game. Marvel Trading Card Game features the popular comic company's complete stable of characters such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, Ghost ... |
27 November 2008
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Everybody loves the Hulk because he is the embodiment of pure rage and of uncontrolled fury. And this is, maybe, related to the fact that he is the only one that can actually consume those emotions in a “constructive” way, thus entertaining the rest of us. Yes, once again New York is ready to get a beatin... |
4 November 2008
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The comic book frenzy has clearly hit games and even as comic book heroes fuel multi million dollar grossing movies, like Iron Man, Hulk 2 and the upcoming Watchmen, which comes sometime in early 2009, some of the interest for super heroes is trickling down into videogames. The Iron Man game was a mediocre effort, bu... |
24 July 2008
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Everybody loves the Hulk. I'm not sure why, as he is the embodiment of pure rage, of uncontrolled fury. Maybe he is the one that actually can consume those emotions in a "constructive" way by entertaining the rest of us. Yes, once again New York is ready to get a beating and I'm starting to believe that Man... |
29 May 2008
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EA Redwood is developing what could prove to be the Bioshock of 2008, a game called Dead Space, that puts the player in the gravity boots of one scared and alone deep space miner and engineer that needs to solve a mystery concerning aliens, evolution, a cult and his own weird past.The game is set on a mining ship on ... |
28 May 2008
19:16 GMT |
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Dead Space is a survival horror game from Electronic Arts. More than 5,000 years into the future, the player is cast as an engineer, named Isaac Clarke, alone in a shuttle heading for the vast depths of space where the mining ship Ishimura has gone missing. In classic space horror fashion, the ship, when found, is wi... |
24 March 2008
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In a game described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo" you have to put high hopes, since Ron Gilbert, the guy that worked for several classic LucasArts adventure games including Maniac Mansion or the Monkey Island series is involved. The game he's been working on is called DeathSpank and it will be an RPG adventure... |
10 January 2008
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We've got it! That's why Duke Nukem Forever takes forever to be released! The title's main character was out playing Master Chief till now, so he didn't have enough time to be cast in the Duke's latest adventure. Joke aside, this crazy (but somewhat plausible) idea can be found by checking o... |
3 October 2007
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It's that time of the year again, when tons of sequels and follow-ups to numeros movies and games are released, with great expectations and big disappointments for the fans. The movies and games based on Marvel comics have usually been average media products, if not failures and still there's an avalanche ... |
27 June 2007
11:39 GMT |
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Spider-Man 3 is a video game based on the Spider-Man 3 film. It was released May 4, 2007 and its scenario draws from the film, Spider-Man comics and the Marvel Universe. The game features ten (eight on PlayStation Portable and the PS2.) villains including the movie's primary villains Venom, New Goblin and Sand... |
9 May 2007
02:53 GMT |
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is an all-new action/RPG where players create their Marvel dream team from the largest roster of Super Heroes ever in a huge quest that will determine the fate of Earth and the Marvel universe.Enter one of the following codes at the indicated screen to activate the corresponding cheat functi... |
5 March 2007
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