When 2K Games originally announced that the strategy series XCOM would be getting a shooter-oriented spin-off — now called The Bureau: XCOM Declassified — longtime fans of the series didn’t care. But what about those who prefer shooters over strategy (like me)?
The first two Saints Row games were little more than low-rent Grand Theft Auto rip-offs. But while making 2011’s Saints Row The Third, the developers clearly said “fuck it” and went so completely off-the-rails and over-the-top and politically incorrect that it ended up being a total blast. Now we have Saints Row IV,which is just as ridiculous and ridiculously fun.
There’s been video games based on comic books, and comic books based on games. But Batman: Arkham Unhinged: Volume 1 from DC Comics takes the unique path of being a comic that’s based on a game that’s based on a comic. And while its tales of the Dark Knight aren’t as good as the one told in the game, or in the regular comics, the book does serve as a nice compliment to Batman: Arkham City.
NECA have announced that they’ll release a Freddy Krueger action figure inspired by the 1989 A Nightmare On Elm Street video game this November.
Warner Bros. Interactive have announced that Zatanna will be the next character added to Injustice: Gods Among Us
via DLC.
Cartoon Network have announced that the second LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles cartoon, subtitled Menace Of The Sith, will premiere 8:00PM (ET, PT) on September 4.