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Techfiction: The Falcon Soars In Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:45:01 +0000

I was lucky enough to see a free screening of Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night and the movie is full of awesome tech. There are three highly techciting key elements to the story that I will refrain from going into, as they would be massive spoilers. We’ve previously covered Cap’s shield and the Black […]

Playing The Shellhead Game With Iron Man 3

Tim Twelves — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:10:21 +0000

Coming soon is the new Disney-Marvel Iron Man 3 movie. Also coming soon is a tie-in game from Gameloft. Here are the first two trailers for the game. Become billionaire Tony Stark as Iron Man in this fast paced endless runner and fight the AIM around the world to prevent their dark schemes from succeeding. […]

SXSW: Marvel Comics Makes Many SXSW Announcements

Justin Davis — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:58:02 +0000

To an overflowing crowd of devoted fans at the SXSW Gaming Expo, Axel Alonso (Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief), Arune Singh (Director of Communications at Marvel Entertainment), and Peter Phillips (senior vice president and general manager of Marvel Entertainment’s Digital Media Group) gave updates to existing projects and explained exactly what the teased Project Gamma is going […]

SXSW: SENSITIVE HULK GET MAD AT PUNY MARVEL OVER PROJECT GAMMA!

Tim Twelves — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:43 +0000

Techcitement learned of Marvel’s upcoming Project Gamma announcement at SXSW and knew this would be a perfect topic for Sensitive Hulk to discuss. IS OKAY, HULK HAVE SPOT OF DUST IN HIS EYE. HULK NOT CRYBABY. HULK SENSITIVE, NOT WUSS. SOMETIME HULK JUST GET MAD AT PR INDUSTRY. HULK UNDERSTAND THAT IT INVOLVE MANY UNDERPAID, […]

Pre-SXSW: Marvel Comics Is A Big Tease For SXSW Interactive

Justin Davis — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0000

What exactly is Marvel planning for SXSW 2013? For the last few weeks, the entertainment giant has been hinting at a mysterious first it plans to announce at the festival. Last year saw the release of Marvel ReEvolution during the SXSW Interactive’s ScreenBurn Arcade (now simply called SXSW Gaming Expo). Marvel ReEvolution was revealed to […]

‘Gender Through Comics’ Knowledge Isn’t Power; It’s A Super Power And Free To All

Megan Moten — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:52 +0000

Comics have reached a new frontier thanks to Ball State University Professor Christina Blanch. Enrollment is now open for Blanch’s new course “Gender through Comic Books”, which will use comics to explore “questions of gender identity, stereotypes, and roles.” The course is structured as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that allows anyone with internet […]

Techfiction: The Awesome Tech Of The Avengers

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:37 +0000

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born—to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! The Invincible Iron Man! The Incredible Hulk! The Mighty Thor! Captain America, the First Avenger! And […]

Techcitement Hands-on: Infinite Comics Pack A Digital Punch

Jeremy Goldstone — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:27:46 +0000

Marvel Comics announced they were making some changes to their digital initiative last week, introducing a new type of online comic format they’re calling Infinite Comics. This past weekend, I attended WonderCon in Anaheim and checked out the first Infinite Comics story, a new Nova story from writer Mark Waid and penciller Stuart Immonen. Somehow, the […]