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God Of War Slaying The Comic Book Medium

The adventure of Kratos will continue in the pages of a six-issue God of War comic book series published by DC/Wildstorm Comics, slated to hit before the release of the third game on the PlayStation 3. The God of War mini-series will be written by comic book legend Marv Wolfman, notable for his work on…

This Week In Video Game Comics

Here’s a rundown of the new video game-based comics going on sale in comics shops in the U.S. this week, including two from Blizzard’s biggest series. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #43… Written by John Jackson Miller; Art by Bong Dazo Summary via publisher Dark Horse Comics: “Reaping”: An unprecedented new adventure begins…

InstantAction Fortified With Castle As New CEO

Browser-based games company InstantAction, responsible for the web-based Tribes and Fallen Empire: Legions, has a new CEO in Westwood Studios founder Louis “Lou” Castle. That’s Lou, pictured to the right of Steven Spielberg playing Boom Blox, by the way. IndustryGamers reports today that Castle has moved on from Electronics Arts to run InstantAction, relocating the…

Creating a Character In Champions Online

Champions Online executive producer Bill Roper walks us through creating a character in Cryptic’s upcoming massively-multiplayer online superhero game. Champions Online takes the rich character creation that Cryptic created for NCsoft’s City of Heroes and brings it to the next level. Not only can you spend hours designing the perfect superhero costume, the ability to…

The Trouble With Girls’ Games

If anyone is worried about what Grand Theft Auto games might do to boys, then, my former colleague Tracey John writes for Wired, you might want to worry how a different set of games influences girls. Tracey has pulled descriptions for 11 upcoming DS games aimed at girls. These are games about make-up, boyfriends or…

Kenka Bancho 3 Gets A Badass New Name

Last week, Atlus announced that it would bring Kenka Bancho 3 to North American PSPs, admitting that Kenka Bancho 3 is not the most Western friendly or marketable of names. It asked you to decided the final title. Which is… …Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble, the option I voted for in Atlus’ online poll. Turns out,…

Free Monster Hunter Quests At Comic-Con

Fans who bring their PSP and a copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unit to the San Diego Comic-Com next week can score up to eight free quests, courtesy of Capcom. The Capcom booth at the San Diego Comic-Con will feature a download station where players can snag any or all of the eight free quests…

How To Stuff A Wii Nunchuk Into A Fishing Rod

You can stick a Wii remote in a guitar shell, a golf club, and, yes, even in the past, a fishing rod. But the way I saw it done today was clever. Here’s me holding the Wii version of the controller for this September’s Bass Pro Shops: The Strike, a fishing game. It sells for…

Dragon Age Collector’s Edition Gets Mass Effect 2 Bonus

BioWare will be issuing a collector’s edition for Dragon Age: Origins, one that Mass Effect completists should pay attention to. Details on the higher priced option reveal an exclusive unlockable for the developers other big upcoming role-playing game. GameStop, by way of Destructoid, has a full run down on what’s included in the Dragon Age:…

IMDB Lists More Characters For Arkham Asylum

Are there more villains lurking within the walls of Arkham Asylum that we’ve been told about? The Internet Movie Database listing for Batman: Arkham Asylum points in that direction. The IMDB listing, pointed out to use by Kotakuite Jippon, lists several characters we already know about, including Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane, and of course…

MAG Reloading For Release In 2010?

The thinning Fall 2009 release list looks like it’s getting one release thinner today, as online retailers are pointing to a delay for MAG, Zipper Interactive‘s massive action game for the PlayStation 3, which is now aiming for January 2010. Both GameFly and GameStop are listing the title for release during the month of January…

Activision Teams Pros With GI Joes

Activision is teaming up with nonprofit troop support organization Pro vs. GI Joe for the Activision Showdown series, pitting pro-athletes against our troops overseas in games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Call of Duty seems like a rather odd choice of games to play with troops who regularly see live combat, which is…

Thanks, Hollywood, For These “Summer Blockbusters”

Summer means sun. Weeks off school, days off work, Coronas under a palm tree as a sea breeze washes over you. But it also means it’s time for Hollywood’s big shebang: the summer blockbusters. And since we’re in the midst of celebrating all things summer and all things gaming, what better time to honour –…

Mai Tease In The King Of Fighters XII Legacy Trailer

.html Of all of the shots of the original The King of Fighters ’94 to show off in this trailer for the latest version, Ignition had to go with a Mai Shiranui shot. Mai’s absence in The King of Fighters XII is being felt keenly by fans, and while she could be showing up as…

Gates Wants to Bring Natal Tech to PC

Microsoft’s Project Natal, the motion-sensing game controls for the Xbox 360 unveiled at E3, is also being developed for PC use, Bill Gates told Cnet in a recent interview. It doesn’t, however, sound like the PC applications for the tech are about gaming, at least not yet. “I think the value is as great for…

Great Moments In Video Game Cycling

The annual Tour de France bicycle race is going on as we speak, inspiring MTV Multiplayer to look back at some great moments in video game cycling. Did they miss any? MTV’s list of three of the biggest moments in video game cycling seems rather complete at first glance. They’ve covered Little Mac training in…

WoW ‘Kidnapper’ Gets Nine Years In Prison

The Alabama World of Warcraft player who was arrested last year after transporting his 14-year-old in-game love interest across state lines for sex has been sentenced to nine years in prison. What seemed like a simple case of transporting a teen across state lines became a much darker story as more details emerged. 27-year-old Morgan…

T-Rex Crecente Invades A Denver Magazine: 5280

A few months back, Robert Sanchez, a talented writer formerly of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, hung-out with me in my lush jungle home offices to research a story about all things Crecente for 5280 Magazine. This glossy article is the product of that time spent chillin’. The brevity of the story is…

Hear Your Words In Tales Of Monkey Island

How has Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, wronged you? Tell your tale to Telltale and you might hear it in the final chapter of the episodic Tales of Monkey Island. Telltale Games has launched a contest that could see your words immortalized in the final episode of the five-part Tales of Monkey Island adventure game serial.…