“Guardians of the Galaxy” is a Xanatos Gambit for Marvel Studios. Continue reading
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The Existential Horror of Being a MMO Character
Fight. Get loot. Fight. Get loot. Go down a level in the dungeon. Fight. Die. Wake up in the temple. Do it all again tomorrow. Continue reading
Point / Counterpoint: The DC Comics Reboot Circa 2011
For those who don’t know, DC Comics is rebooting their entire universe. Again. Lots of characters are getting new costumes. Point: “I understand that there is an editorial edict for the DC Comics superlaunch that their female superheroes wear more… practical clothing. So Wonder Woman gets to keep her trousers. But the likes of Supergirl … Continue reading
Cheap Internet Filler: Friends vs Super-Friends
Ross makes an eerily appropriate Superman. In actual Super-Friends footage: the Battle of the Century is oddly hilarious. And Aquaman wins. But I repeat myself.
The World Turns for Kevin Smith
Popular nerd-director-slacker Kevin Smith is famous for some of his anecdotes about the making of films in Hollywood, including the story of his battle with Jon Peters around the script of Superman Lives. Peters wanted many odd inclusions to the script, including the demand that Superman not appear in the suit, not fly and fight … Continue reading
DCUO: Countdown to Crisis
I’m going to start 2011 the way I ended 2010: publicly wondering what is going on at Sony Online Entertainment with DC Universe Online. SOE looked to be in a pretty good place to develop DCUO – they had a larger IP than its competitors in City of Heroes / Villains and Champions Online, it … Continue reading
Bye Bye Wildstorm
I started reading comics around the time that Image Comics launched. Accepting all the criticism around Image, it has to be recognised that as a studio they injected some dynamic competition into a comics industry dominated by DC and Marvel. Over time Image has fractured into various offshoots, with the one I was most interested … Continue reading
Why Marvel Studios Needs to Pay Up
I like superhero films. As such, I definitely appreciate that the genre is going through a good patch where budgets allow for some pretty impressive representations of what happens on the page. A sign of this change in focus has been the creation of Marvel Studios – for years Marvel was content to sell their … Continue reading
DC Universe Online: Talking Loud, Ain’t Saying Nothing
I have to say I’ve been massively impressed with how DC Universe Online has managed to spin the same (or standard) information out time and time and time again, each time as though it is something new or surprising. Sure, it’s to be expected in new MMOs, but DCUO has really taken the art form … Continue reading
Super Hero Squad, The MMOCCG?
The first trailer for Marvel / Gazillion / Amazing Society-developed MMO Super Hero Squad is up and it definitely gives the impression of the core gaming mechanic being card-based. This makes sense given that every player will want an established IP character, which involves a lot of different Wolverines – everyone can have a Wolverine … Continue reading
World Class Villains 