Lara Croft’s latest adventure is surprisingly religious. It’s not just about the good aspects of a communal belief in a higher power. Rise of the Tomb Raider’s main bad guy is a true believer, too. The plot of the new Tomb Raider revolves around Lara’s search for a mythical figure called the Prophet and his…
Galactus keeps trying to eat the Earth. A team of the smartest, most powerful heroes around isn’t waiting for him to get hungry again. They’re going to go knock on his door and talk to him. Over the years, lots of superheroes—but mostly the Fantastic Four—have convinced, cajoled or otherwise stopped Galactus from absorbing the…
You’re Clark Kent, a little boy who’s way different than your parents or anyone else in your hometown of Smallville. One day, you start floating high into the sky. Who the heck is going to show you how to fly? Superman: American Alien is another origin story for the Man of Steel. Except that it…
Tony Stark is kinda broke. New Captain America Sam Wilson and old Captain America Steve Rogers aren’t talking. Odin’s firstborn isn’t worthy to wield Mjolnir anymore. Marvel’s still going to have an Avengers team, of course, but it’s going to take some doing to have them assemble effectively. When we last saw two of the…
The guy who was Wolverine for decades of Marvel Comics’ publishing history is dead. The new Wolverine—a female clone of Logan also known as X-23—is a stone-cold killer just like him. But she needs to figure out how to be something more. Spoilers follow. A woman named Laura Kinney puts on a yellow-and-blue Wolverine costume…
Almost everyone who played it said there weren’t enough tombs in the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider. Its sequel is out this week and Rise of the Tomb Raider definitely doesn’t have this problem. Take a look at two of the hidden environments in Lara Croft’s new adventure below. Spoilers follow for the locations and…
Rise of the Tomb Raider is out today, bringing with it a new mode that lets players create missions with tweaks to difficulty, weapons and enemies. Check out that guy’s big head! Let’s take a look at some Expedition missions. I’ll be playing Rise of the Tomb Raider’s new Expeditions mode around 12 noon ET…
The House of Mario will be presenting a new installment of its iconic marketing broadcasts later this week, its first since the passing of CEO Satoru Iwata The Nintendo Direct videos changed the way that the video game giant communicated with their fans, becoming much-anticipated events unto themselves and spawning hundreds of hilarious memes. But…
Starting tomorrow this week, over 100 games originally made for the Xbox 360 will be playable on the Xbox One. But the titles that garnered the most votes in a Microsoft user poll are missing. If you were hoping you’d be able to play last-gen classics like Red Dead Redemption or Halo: Reach on your…
Earlier this year, reports surfacedof a surviving Nintendo PlayStation prototype from the short-lived partnershipbetween the two video game giants. Many were skeptical if the device was real. But now there’s video of the prototype powering on and playing games. Video footage of the Nintendo PlayStation prototype comes via Engadget, who also have an in-depth interview…
Blizzard’s mega-popular competitive game is getting a bunch of new card and mechanics with the League of Explorers adventure mode, which will launch next week. Announced today at Blizzcon, League of Explorers will be a four-wing pack full of bosses and new legendary cards. It’ll also add new game boards, some class challenges, and a…
Superman III was not a good movie. But it gave us an evil Man of Steel who took shots and generally gave no fucks whatsoever. The jerkhole Superman who shows up in a new comic this week feels almost exactly like the one in that terrible 1983 threequel. The asshole Superman in Superman III is…
There’s a bunch of cute in-jokes in this teaser for Avengers Academy The upcoming mobile game from the makers of Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff casts the Avengers as teenagers learning to use their powers. Contact the author at [email protected]
The Vision has always wanted to be human. It’s kind of his whole “thing.” This week, he tries again—harder than he ever has before—by setting up shop out in the suburbs with a synthezoid wife and children. “Even an android can cry.” It’s the signature line from the classic Avengers issue when the Vision is…
The X-Men have been fighting each other for a long time. Today, according to a long-delayed X-Men comic originally slated for release in May, it seems like all that drama may have been for the wrong reasons. Marvel’s highest-profile mutants have been at war with each other at least since the 2011 “Schism” storyline that…
Millions of people use iTunes. Nobody reads the walls of text that show up every time Apple’s music software updates. Wait, you do? You’re a freak. So is Robert Sikoryak, who’s made a graphic novel out of the corporately mandated agreement, riffing off comics greats like Frank Miller and Charles Schulz. iTunes Terms And Conditions…
I really hope petty Hollywood bullshit isn’t the reason for the big change in the new Squirrel Girl comic. Squirrel Girl is one of Marvel’s best and weirdest monthly comic books. It pokes fun at superhero genre tropes in a loving way yet also uses those ideas in service of a character so earnest that…
Cops work with facts. Evidence comes from things they can see, feel, and hear. But Detective Rowan Black has a foot in the hidden world of the occult, too. In Black Magick #1, the two parts of her life collide, marking the very promising start of a new horror suspense series. It opens with a…
Reed Richards is one of the most important characters in Marvel’s history. He’s the father figure of the Fantastic Four, the first superhero series that began turning a then-unremarkable publisher into a cultural powerhouse. There used to be dozens of versions of Reed but now there’s only one. And he’s not here to save the…
Batman’s had lots of sidekicks over the years. Nightwing, Batgirl and Red Hood have all had gruff, tension-filled partnerships with the Dark Knight. But only one of them has been Bruce Wayne’s biological son. Trained to kill since he could walk, Damian Wayne is the most ferocious Robin ever. Now his mom wants him back.…
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