We have two fine selections shipping in July from NBM Publishing. They’ve brought us books such as The Sky Over the Lourve and the upcoming release of The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. In July they’ll have two brand new graphic novels for you and one will require you to flash your ID, so check it out.
Be fearful gamers! The Rapture is upon us! According to a radio evangelist, on May 21st the righteous will ascend to heaven, while sinners are sent to roast in eternal hellfire! Having spent most of our lives playing murder simulators, and teabaging virtual corpses in shooter games, we’re all going to fry! But our salvation is at hand, because I’ve found a list of games we can all play to earn some good karma and maybe buy our way into heaven. Read on as though your soul depends upon it!
Twisted
Metal
made its debut at last year’s E3 convention, and now the game is
really starting to break free from the silence. The game’s developer, Eat
Sleep Play, is finally unveiling some details on the reincarnation of
the title on the PS3, and Creative Director David Jaffe has stated
that the team has been hard at work on the project. He claims that
the game, while still in its early pre-release stages, stays true to
the classics and is a fast and ferocious action driving game. The
game sports a brand new look with HD graphics yet still retains the
chaotic and hyper-violent feel of the originals. Of course, there
will be a slew of new features and improvements to the combat system
and other game mechanics, but nothing too altering or extreme.
Needless to say the new face of Twisted
Metal
is an even crazier, over-the-top action game than its predecessors.
Remember all the all inspiring “The Governator” products and
project that were coming our way that involved comics from Archie Comics, an
animated TV series, a 3-D movie and an array of consumer products? It was a
joint effort between, A Squared, Archie, and POW comics.
It basically would have
seen the extra awesome idea of a recently retired governor of California
deciding to take on global villainy and disasters with the help of a team of
teens. He’ll be living a double life with his heroics a secret even from
his family. Sucks right?
This double-sized 15th anniversary issue of Witchblade not only has a lot of substance but sustenance too. Witchblade #144 is the perfect issue to get any newbie caught up with all the Witchblade lore, although with two stories, it might not be what hardcore fans are really looking for.
The first story from Witchblade #144, “cleverly” titled “Origin Secret.” Why not a normal title like “Secret Origin?” We’ll talk about that when we get to the second story. “Origin Secret” focuses on an internal affairs agent investigating the death of Sara Pezzini’s former partner Jake McCarthy. In the process Jake’s journal is found detailing Sara’s history as the bearer of the Witchblade.
Electronic Arts, and Japanese developer Grasshopper Manufacture promise to enlarge your Johnson with their new game Shadows of the Damned. And, just for the record, the game’s protagonist calls his gun Johnson, and they’re talking about in-game power-ups. If you thought I was talking about anything else, you have a filthy mind.
Voltron love is in full “Force”! Why? Because Nicktoons has announced that the new Voltron series, Voltron Force, will premiere on June 16th at 8:30PM ET. The show was announced last year as Voltron Panthera Force but everyone thought that was stupid so they just went with Force. Several years after the final battle between the Voltron Force and
Prince Lotor, a new evil threatens the galaxy, and the universe is once
again in need of its true defender…
NC Soft’s electromagnetic entertainment programme, City of Heroes allows interested persons to masquerade as pulp-fiction heroes, and dime-novel adventurers on the new-fangled international compunet. Now gaming enthusiasts who enjoy playing with electronic thinking machines can dress in a proper fashion with the new Steampunk Booster Pack.
Robot Entertainment, the developers of the Orc genocide slaughterfest Orcs Must Die, are slowly revealing the arsenal of traps and gadgets that player will use in their upcoming game. Today they unveiled the Wind Belt with a video that show how the power of the wind can be used to kill the horde of stupid little monsters invading your castle.
This
story is a lie. Well most stories are anyway, but the creators of this
book are making sure you know this. Why? The subject matter of Drums
is so complex that to explain everything as it is would take an
encyclopedia to explain one of the three religions that the title
presents. But they accept this fact and say, “Hey bare with us, this is
not an accurate representation of real facts but a layman’s way to tell
an entertaining story based on all of these religions.” You see
Santeria, Palo Mayombe and Candomble are all derived from the Yoruba
tradition and all of them are very real religions. But the mainstream
tends to confuse them with voodoo or satanism. Drums is a title that takes the source material seriously. Here they represent this with care, with detailed and fictional liberties.
