DC Collectibles, a division of DC Comics, have announced a series of action figures based on the upcoming video game Batman: Arkham Knight. In addition, they also announced that an exclusive, limited edition statue of Harley Quinn from the game Batman: Arkham City will be sold exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con.
Though he was a cult favorite from the moment he first appeared in “New Mutants” #98 in February of 1991, Deadpool has since joined the ranks of Dr. Strange, Ant Man, and Ghost Rider as one of Marvel Comic’s best love second stringers. Now he’s been given the ultimate honor — no, he’s not on the cover of Mad magazine…or hosting Saturday Night Live…or finally getting his own movie starring Ryan Reynolds — he’s gotten his own table on Zen Studio’s Zen Pinball 2 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita, and for Pinball FX 2 on the Xbox 360.
Zen Studios have announced that fourteen tables from the PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of Zen Pinball 2 will be coming to the PlayStation 4 version of the game on July 15th.
With a name like Sniper Elite III, you’d expect this World War II third-person shooter to have a lot of long distance gunplay. And it does. But thanks to the inclusion of a silenced pistol, stealth kills,and general sneakiness, Sniper Elite III — which was made by Rebellion for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC — also lets you get up close and personal…and the game is all the better for it. It’s just too bad it isn’t better overall.
In 2011, Robot Entertainment declared that Orcs Must Die! Then, the following year, they declared that Orcs Must Die! 2. And while it should’ve been called Orcs Must Die, Too! or Orcs Must Die! 2: Electric Boogaloo, we’ll let them slide because, like the original, this tower defense strategy game was tons of fun. Now they’re working on the upcoming sequel, Orcs Must Die! Unchained. But in talking to Robot’s Ian Fischer, the game’s design director, it’s sadly clear that, despite what the name suggests, this is not a tower defense strategy game where you have to prevent David Lee Roth from invading your home and eating all your brown M&Ms. Ah well.
For the last few years, Transformers fans have taken comfort in the knowledge that while the movies were terrible, the games were decent, sometimes even good. Sadly, this is not the case with Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark, a piss poor third-person shooter that Activision are releasing on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, WiiU, and PC.
When your studio is called SleepNinja Games, your publisher is Cartoon Network Games, and your new game is called Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, you better have a sense of humor about yourself. Thankfully, that seems to be the case with Justin Baldwin, who identifies himself as the Arty-fart McGoo / Animation Dood / Overall Design Person’r on Cake, and his cohort Alex Atkins, Cake’s self-identified “Head Writerererer/Designer.”
NECA have announced that they will release a Halo Master Chief Motorcycle Helmet in 2015. A real one. No fooling’.
At a recent event in Los Angeles, Sega gave game journalists (myself included) a chance to play through a decent chunk of Alien: Isolation, the upcoming, first-person, stealth-action, survival horror game that’s set up as a sequel to the classic 1979 sci-fi film, and will be released on the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PCs on October 7th. But while my time with the game wasn’t exhaustive, it’s still clear to me that this game has the potential to be as scary and engrossing as the movie that inspired it.