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Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic

Was anybody expecting this? The Black Panther is arguably Marvel Comics’ most important black superhero, a king who’s never been mired in the kinds of stereotype-heavy portrayals that have dogged other characters. And news has just hit that the Wakandan monarch’s next ongoing comics series will be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for…

Dragon Age Inquisition is getting a Game of the Year edition, which will include DLC released for Bioware’s sprawling RPG. Look for it on October 6th. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Sorry State of Arkham Knight’s DLC

Today, new DLC is coming to Batman: Arkham Knight. Usually, this is when players pop a disc back in and rekindle a relationship with the game. But, the responses to Arkham Knight’s DLC have been harsh and it’s going to take a lot of work to make the owners of the newest Bat-game feel like…

The next game from the creators of Monument Valley is going to be a virtual reality experience. UsTwo’s Land’s End is due to hit the Samsung Gear VR headset next month. Contact the author at [email protected]

Twitch Plays Fallout 3 Is Off to a Terrible Start [UPDATE]

They haven’t even made it out of the Vault yet. Fallout 3 is a complex and challenging game when you play it the “normal” way. But, apparently when you have a bunch of people trying to feed Bethesda’s open-world action-RPG hybrid commands through chat, it’s enough to break the game. The live, bot-controlled playthrough of…

Ronda Rousey, Kicking Floyd Mayweather’s Butt In Modded Street Fighter

Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather may never wind up trading blows in real life. But, now we know who’d win if they were Street Fighter characters. YouTuber Richie Branson modded the PC version of Street Fighter IV so that he could make Balrog and Cammy resemble the UFC superstar and the dude she’s talked mad…

A Beautifully Drawn Game About a Man Who’s Dying

The main character of In Between isn’t going to live much longer. The only thing left is to make sense of it all. Just as in life, nothing is straightforward in In Between. The hand-painted indie game by dev studio Gentlymad is a platformer but it’s one where you can’t jump. Instead, players have directional…

Rocket League‘s Next DLC Is Coming in October

There’s new DLC coming for everybody’s favorite car soccer game and the add-on will give a nod to Rocket League’s obscure predecessor The name of the Revenge of the Battle-Cars pack references Psyonix’s previous release Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. The add-on will include two cars—Scarab and Zippy—from that game along with a bunch of new…

Want to play Shovel Knight’s new Plague Knight DLC right away? There’s a secret code to unlock it, courtesy of developers Yacht Club. Contact the author at [email protected]

Meet the Hutt Who Helped Luke Skywalker Learn About the Jedi

At the end of the original Star Wars movie, Luke Skywalker had a lightsaber and not much else. The old man who started to mentor him died at the hands of the Empire’s most feared enforcer and he didn’t know anything about the legacy he was supposed to continue. This week’s Star Wars comic shows…

After Many Years, The Witness Is Finally Coming Out

The next game from the creator of Braid will be out on January 26, 2016. Even the repeated numbers of the release date (0126•2016) are like a puzzle. Jonathan Blow’s last game was a bonafide video game classic, one that helped ignite a whole wave of independent, small-studio creations. Braid came out in 2008 and…

Persona 5 Delayed to 2016

The next entry in Atlus’ beloved RPG series was supposed to come out this year. But that ain’t happening. Persona 5 won’t be out until the summer of 2016. The delay was announced via a new TGS trailer and comes after Atlus had repeatedly said that they were on track for a 2015 release for…

Know how there have been secret rooms in the Batman Arkham games teasing info about the inevitable follow-up? Rocksteady studio head Sefton Hill says that Arkham Knight doesn’t have one. Time to shut Detective Mode off, I guess.

The Captain America Comic Book That Got Frozen in Time

Issue #1 of Captain America: White was supposed to come out seven years ago. It’s out today. Back in 2008, Captain America: White was the next hotly-anticipated project from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale, who’d become a fan-favorite team on the strength of their moody Batman projects. Loeb and Sale went on to…

The Newest Arkham Knight Comic Makes Some Shrewd Tweaks To Batman Lore

Despite being the titular bad guy in the newest Batman video game, the Arkham Knight was underdeveloped as a major villain. It’s a good thing that a new comic series is convincingly demonstrating how someone very close to the Dark Knight wound up wanting to kill him. Spoilers follow for the plot of Batman: Arkham…

Bitch Planet Gives Patriarchy a Feminist Middle Finger

Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the way you look at the world around you. Kelly Sue DeConnick writes something incredibly cruel in the first issue of Bitch Planet. There’s a scene in the comic—written by DeConnick, with art and design…

Sadly, one of the best new titles published by DC Comics has been cancelled Due out in December, Omega Men #7 will be the last issue of the series. Here’s hoping the creative team gets to wrap things up in a satisfying way. Contact the author at [email protected]

Marvel’s Going to Have Six Avengers Teams This Fall

Galactus and Deadpool—two guys classified as “bad guys” at one point in time—are going to be Avengers when the Marvel Universe returns to a more recognizable form this fall. And they’re going to have a lot of company, some of whom are coming from alternate universes. The Avengers family of comic books is going to…

Looks Like Iron Man Might Be Getting Closer with Spider-Man’s Ex-Girlfriend

You can’t say the name “Mary Jane Watson” without immediately thinking about Spider-Man. Peter Parker’s favorite redhead originally appeared in the webslinger’s comics more than fifty years ago and has primarily been used in Spidey storylines since then. But she’s leaving webshooters behind… for Stark-brand power armor. Marvel’s just announced that Mary Jane will be…

A Quick Look at Rashid, Street Fighter V‘s All-New Middle Eastern Character 

Street Fighter V’s already added a bunch of new ideas, features and redesigns to the next chapter of the fighting game franchise. But Capcom’s not done. They just showed off an addition to the World Warrior roster last night. The new brawler’s name is Rashid and, from the quick glimpse in Emiratendo’s video via EventHubs,…