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Batman: Arkham Origins Full Trailer, Deathstroke As Playable DLC, And Game’s Main Villain

Justin Davis — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:13:02 +0000

Last week saw the release of a teaser trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins that lightly bruised you with an intense fight between Batman and Deathstroke the Terminator, a new character to the video game franchise from DC Comics. Today’s full trailer puts you in traction with a vicariously painful fight between the two characters, along with […]

Teaser Trailer For Batman: Arkham Origins Kicks You In The Face

Justin Davis — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:58:39 +0000

The game isn’t set to come out until October 25, but Batman: Arkham Origins has been pumping the gaming community full of adrenalin for months with teases about new characters and storylines. Today is no different. Warner Bros. Games Montreal has released a 41-second teaser trailer for the game that highlights one of those new […]

DC Comics Comes To The Scribblenauts Universe

Justin Davis — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:07 +0000

Warner Bros. Interactive has teamed up with video game company 5TH Cell to create Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, where you get to control the main character Maxwell as he goes on adventures with iconic heroes. As with other Scribblenauts games, you use your magic notebook to summon objects by writing their names out, […]

Injustice: Gods Among Us Unused Concept Art (Hint: It’s Mostly Terrible) And Dicey DLC

Justin Davis — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:52:28 +0000

Yikes. Injustice: Gods Among Us, the Justice League video game that gives you the chance to pit your favorite heroes against each other in surprisingly brutal battles, continues to set itself up for pounding after pounding by the public. First, there are the dicier story elements of the NetherRealm Studios and DC Comics collaboration. Avoid […]

SXSW: ComiXology Wants To Help Little Guys, Big Guys, And Everyone In Between Make Comic Books

Justin Davis — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:37:29 +0000

A trio sits on a humble stage, tucked away in the SXSW Gaming Expo, while literal bells and whistles go off in the background. Co-founder and CEO of ComiXology, Davis Steinberger, moderates a panel consisting of himself, fellow co-founder John Roberts, and indie comic book creator and ex-Austinite Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man, Oil […]

It’s A Bird! It’s A plane! It’s Digital Distribution!

Ben Masten — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:35:53 +0000

If you were a teenage comic book geek in the 1990s, you probably remember the slightly tentative steps that publishers like Marvel and DC took toward digital distribution of their products. Browser-based, semi-animated webcomics were a weird little ghetto within the comic book industry, a way to give some low-risk exposure to unknown writers and […]

Warner Brothers Buys 15 New Batman-related Domains, Arkham Style

Benjamin Wilbur — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:10:05 +0000

Rocksteady Studios and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment bought 15 domains and every single one of them has the word Arkham somewhere in the URL. A chosen a title for the new game hasn’t been announced and there isn’t much information beyond speculation about its mechanics or story, but it is rumored that the universe will delve into the […]

Comic Chaos Strikes The Tablet Universe

Yoni Gross — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:42:44 +0000

Amazon’s highly anticipated Kindle Fire begins shipping this week, and that means discussion in the tech world can turn to only one thing: comic books. Fine, maybe not just one thing, but Amazon has already dramatically changed the landscape of the comic book industry without even shipping its outrageously low-priced tablet. The Fire was announced […]

Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys? Batman: Arkham City Collector’s Edition

Jeremy Goldstone — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:11:52 +0000

The collector’s edition for Batman: Arkham City by Rocksteady Studios has been revealed and there’s a lot in that Batcave.