In 1952, writer/artist Carl Barks introduced the world to Uncle Scrooge, an obscenely wealthy adventurer from the city of Duckburg. The character debuted in a Donald Duck story, but became so popular that he became the star of his own book for many decades and those exploits were eventually adapted into the beloved animated series, DuckTales. Like…
The last combatant that made up the Fighter Pack 1 DLC for Injustice 2, Starfire, finally arrives today. Like her siblings Red Hood and Sub-Zero, Starfire can be downloaded provided you bought something other than the vanilla version of the game or the Fighter Pack 1 DLC. She’ll also be made available for individual purchase starting August…
Last week two new characters were unveiled for Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite via a preview for a variant Spider-Man/Deadpool cover: Dormammu and Firebrand and now another character has been revealed in a similar way. From a variant for the fourth issue of The Defenders comes the news that Ghost Rider is the latest character to come to the crossover fighting game that…
Batman: Arkham Origins gets a bad rap and I’ve never really understood why. Yes, it didn’t really evolve the Arkham series beyond what Rocksteady did with the first two titles in the franchise, but it has a terrific story, a great new Batman and Joker voiced by Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker respectively and some downright chilling…
Announced last month during a Summer Event video from Telltale, the sequel to the excellent Batman: The Telltale Series, Batman: The Enemy Within, premieres this coming Tuesday, August 8th. Ahead of the debut episode, Telltale has put out a launch trailer teasing some of the things that we should expect to see this coming season, including the…
To promote the September release of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, Marvel is doing MvC:I variant covers for some of their ongoing series. On the official Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite Facebook page, the variant cover for Spider-Man/Deadpool #20 was unveiled that revealed two returning characters from Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 for Infinite. The first is a character who will probably be more familiar to a lot more people…
In the eleven year hiatus between Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and 2011’s Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Climax Studios (Silent Hill: Origins, Ghost Rider) attempted to keep the Vs. Series alive by ditching Marvel and going with their major competitor, DC Comics. Video game historian group PtoPOnline recently dug up a pitch document from Climax to Capcom for a Street Fighter Vs. DC, not for consoles, but…
Staff from TT Games were at San Diego Comic-Con this last weekend, but sadly the event was not streamed to the public so things like new characters and features that were shown off were for attendees only. TT games have not completely shut out everyone else who couldn’t make it to San Diego this last…
The final character that makes up Injustice 2’s Fighter Pack 1 combo of downloadable fighters, Starfire, was shown off during San Diego Comic-Con. Following Red Hood and Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, Starfire will be added to the game in August. Those who purchased a version of Injustice 2 above the regular edition will be able to download her when she becomes available,…
Yesterday during the Marvel Games panel at San Diego Comic-Con, a new trailer was shown for those in attendance for Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite that revealed several new characters for the game. That trailer has now been made public so everyone can see the likes of Spider-Man, Nemesis. Frank West and Mike Haggar for the first time…
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