With talent like comic book artist Mike Choi and award-winning science fiction author John Scalzi attached to it, an interactive comic book tie-in for upcoming mobile shooter Morning Star was a no-brainer. But Morning Star Alpha is much more than a game supplement — it's a fresh new idea that every game with a rich…
Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic adventure for the PlayStation 3 looks brilliant, but I haven't developed quite the excitement for The Last of Us that many of my colleagues have. I'm a little post-apocalyptic'd out — the idea of traipsing through another story about how men become monsters in extreme circumstances…
This spring, developer Industrial Toys plans to redefine the mobile first-person shooter with the sci-fi epic Morning Star, but first it's going to redefine the interactive digital comic book tie-in with Morning Star Alpha.
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Like a mysteriously silent walker lurching out of the woods to sink its teeth into your face, Skybound's comic book based The Walking Dead Assault came out of nowhere this morning to take a large bite out of fans' free time.
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The iPhone and iPad are great for reading comics. The iPhone and iPad are great for playing games. Square Enix taps top talent to combine the two in Imaginary Range, a new sort of interactive comic available free in the iTunes App Store.
In this new trailer from Gamescom, SOE lets you be a savior or destroyer of the DC Universe.
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Imagine finishing a video game like Mass Effect and then having a personalized comic book generated featuring the decisions and tactics you used while playing. Apple has already imagined it, and they've got the patent application to prove it.
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As with Dead Space before it, Dead Space 2 is getting the transmedia treatment from EA, with a brand new animated feature and a graphic novel taking fans deeper into the dark universe this winter.
Let's get hyped up for inFamous 2, with a look at the gorgeous 2D comic book style cut-scenes that tell the story of Cole McGrath's little trip to New Marais.
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Last month UbiWorkshop teased a secret project featuring the talents of acclaimed comic book illustrators Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. Today that project stands revealed as an Assassin's Creed comic book mini-series set in Russia, introduced via old-timey film reel.
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With Command & Conquer 4 ready for release in March, EA is prepared to take the C&C universe to an entirely new medium. What do these teaser images say about this new frontier?
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Details for the upcoming Prototype comic book mini-series just hit DC Wildstorm's website.
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My hands on with Hellboy: Science of Evil was a surprising experience. I wasn't expecting to like it much but it ended up being a pretty fun little action game experience. You play Hellboy, the demon with the sawed off horns and stone fist of fury. After discovering a Nazi plot to take over the world, Hellboy must hit…
