The idea behind Facebook is to bring people together. But in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics, the idea is to bring people together…so you can smack them. Though in talking to Disney Interactive’s Gabe Brown, the Executive Producer of Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics, there might be a little more to it.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced that Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be released on DVD, as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, and as a 3D DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on September 9th, while the movie will come to digital services on August 19th.
Funko have announced that they will release a series of Guardians Of The Galaxy Mystery Minis in July, just in time for the movie’s August 1st opening.
Usually, when a comic book is adapted into a motion comic, the only thing that moves is a thought or dialog bubble as it pops onto the screen. But like their previous releases, the Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today DVD from Shout! Factory and Marvel Knights goes beyond the usual conventions, turning this engaging comic book into what’s really an animated mini-movie.
Fox Home Video have announced that they will release the recent remake of RoboCop on DVD, as a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, and digitally on June 3rd.
Twelve years ago, Spider-Man 2 rewrote the rules for comic book- and comic book movie-inspired games by having our friendly, neighborhood wall-crawler fight crime in wide-open New York City. Now Spidey again has the run of the place in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which Beenox has made for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, and WiiU.
So why does it feel like both a step backwards and a step in the wrong direction?
With The Amazing Spider-Man 2 coming to theaters on May 2nd, it was inevitable that there’d be a video game adaptation as well. But along with the one Beenox are making for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, the WiiU, and the 3DS, there’s a unique one coming to iOS, Android, and, later on, Windows devices, too. I spoke to Gameloft’s Tatiana Nahai about what it took to bring Spidey and his super friends to smaller screens.
Funko have announced that they will release both POP! vinyl action figures and Wacky Wobbler bobble-heads of characters from the upcoming movie Guardians Of The Galaxy on June 24th.