12 years ago, Max Landis wasn’t a Hollywood screenwriter yet. He was just another guy writing fan-fiction about C-list Spidey villain The Shocker. Yeah, the guy who wears a quilted unitard. The Shocker is a Spider-Man villain who’s been a joke for years. Decades, even. He’s so much of a never-was that other lame bad…
Over the course of three episodes, The Walking Dead: Michonne video game miniseries has homed in on the theme of regret. We live our lives haunted by old ones and try to make choices that won’t create new ones. But no matter what you do, it ultimately tells us, you can’t lock pain out of…
Most fans know Garth Ennis as the co-creator of signature series like Preacher or killer runs on the Punisher. But he’s also written a slew of crackin’ good war comics as well. His next return to battlefield-centered sequential storytelling comes via the biggest military video game in the world. Starting this fall, Dark Horse Comics…
Superman: American Alien is a reminder of how great the Man of Steel can be in the hands of people who care. Originally published 4/20/16 Spoilers follow. Despite the fact that hundreds of great stories exist about Superman, one of the worst fallacies about him is that he’s a boring character who’s hard to write…
For more than a decade now, creator Robert Kirkman has been the primary creator of the Walking Dead, partnering with a select few artists to build out the bleak, incredibly successful comics series. Now, two more comics superstars have entered the zombie apocalypse with a beautiful side story that you can read from almost no…
Mortal Kombat’s got ninjas of all different colors. Yellow-clad Scorpion is hot like fire and green-skinned Reptile spits acid at fools. Sub-Zero may wield cryokinetic power but he’s not the coolest martial artist in the fighting game series. That title goes to Rain, because he was created as an homage to Prince. Rain was originally…
“I’m here to tell you there’s something else…” Prince showed me the life I wanted to live. He was my black genius superhero. I grew up in a single parent household ruled by my Haitian-born mom. Like all good immigrant parents, her primary concern was making sure I didn’t bring shame on her house. Do…
EA has just announced a slight delay for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. The new release dates are June 7th for North America and June 9 for Europe. This is the second delay for the free-running first-person game, which was previously slated to come out in February but then moved to May 24.
Judging by this tweet, and confirmed by an official statement to Polygon, it looks like Sony’s starting to roll out two-factor verification for PSN accounts.
Shadow Complex Remastered—the updated version of Chair Entertainment’s 2009 action-exploration game— hits the PS4, Steam and Windows on May 3.
It’s time for the Dark Lord of the Sith’s kill-crazy robots to get their own comics or TV show. Something, anything. They’re just too damn great. The Darth Vader comics series sports one of the best new additions to Star Wars lore, Triple Zero and BT-1, the malevolent automaton doppelgangers to C-3PO and R2D2. Revived…
The next creation from the makers of Bastion and Transistor is Pyre, a party-based role-playing game where roving bands of exiles battle each other.It’s due out in 2017 but Supergiant’s bringing it to PAX East so attendees can play this weekend. You can find out more at their website.
If you’ve been playing video games a long time, parts of Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan will feel very familiar to you. But the parts that are infused with an African sensibility won’t feel familiar at all, and that’s a very good thing. Last week saw the release of Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, the…
Capcom’s finally beginning to detail a system that penalizes players who quit out of online play after losing. Oh, and Guile will be April’s DLC character. The latest update on Capcom Unity details the first steps that the publisher will be using to punish rage-quitters: We’re also happy to announce that we will be implementing…
I was waiting a long time for one little exchange between the current versions of Batman and Jim Gordon, because Gotham City’s top police officer gets to show that he’s not a complete dumb-ass. Originally published 4/14/16 From the viewpoint of the average person in Gotham, Batman’s secret identity is probably tough to figure out.…
Monstress is a comic-book series where incredibly messed-up things happen. We’re talking child slavery, lynchings and cannibalism. Thank the poets it’s also got a magical, two-tailed talking cat named Master Ren. Spoilers follow. The lead character in Monstress is a 17-year-old girl named Maika, a survivor of horrible atrocities rippling out of a long-running, cross-cultural…
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst seemed like one of those games that was never going to happen, a sequel to a beloved game that wasn’t exactly a best-selling hit. Fans who’ve been waiting for more beautiful free-running are happy that it’s coming out soon but some don’t like how it’s handling its upgrades. The original Mirror’s Edge…
Fable Legends shut down today. People who bought items in the game via microtransactions should be be getting refunds sent to their linked Xbox or Windows Store accounts. The in-development, free-to-play multiplayer game was the last thing made by legendary British game studio Lionhead
Grant Morrison delivered one of the best Superman stories ever with All-Star Superman. His long run on the Dark Knight infused Batman comics with more energy and heart than they’d seen in years. However, his take on Wonder Woman misses the mark. Wonder Woman is one of the most popular and recognizable superheroes in the…
Tilda Swinton punching Benedict Cumberbatch’s soul out of his body? Teach me, indeed. The first clip of the upcoming Sorcerer Supreme shows the familiar beats from the origin story of Marvel’s magical superhero, along with glimpses of the reality-warping power that he’ll come into contact with. Feel a little like Inception by way of Ditko.…
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