With Captain America: Winter Soldier coming out this week, the internet’s occasional hobby of figuring out how much it would cost to be a superhero has come up again. This time, it’s about how much it costs to make Steve Rogers into Captain America. Unlike fellow Avenger, Iron Man (AKA Tony Stark), the Captain doesn’t have a lot of high-tech gadgets. In fact, apart from lab costs to make the serum and the materials cost for the shield, just about anyone could afford to be Captain America.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Best of the Rest of April Fools’ Day
Who says that I can’t drag out April Fools’ recaps beyond just April 2nd? Since I’m extremely busy IRL, I’m giving you some of the best press releases that were dropped on April 1st as well. It wasn’t just Blizzard having all the fun on April Fools’ Day. Many more devs got in on the action.
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The Australian Government is Changing How They Rate Games
The Australian Classification Board’s game ratings have become something of a running joke in the gaming news media but the country is taking steps to simplify the ratings process for developers. The Australian Federal Government is currently going through the process of legislating into law changes to the ratings approach by the Classification Board.
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Blizzard Wins April Fools’ Day with a Pair of Pranks
Some companies do April 1st better than others. The one publisher that might just be the best at it is Blizzard. They used April Fools’ Day to have a little fun at their expense while poking fun at free-to-play games. Who says that April Fools’ jokes can’t be used for good.
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ESL Buys eSports Services, Launches ESL America
First, it was their takeover over the WCS America. Now, ESL is launching their eSports takeover of the whole of the Americas after buying eSports Services (ESS) and launching a new studio in Los Angeles to host ESL’s operations in North America.
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Comic Book Pull List for April 2, 2014
Without that issue of Forever Evil #7 that I was looking forward to this week and no Justice League on the horizon, that DC Comics section of the pull list looks awfully bare. However, DC Comics superstars Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (who are lovely people should you ever get the chance to meet them) are back on the Aquaman beat with Aquaman and the Others #1.
Over at Marvel, they’re doing another hypothetical alternate reality miniseries. This time, it’s about the Age of Ultron storyline. What if Hank Pym was able to create an even more dangerous version of Ultron? We find out in What If: Age of Ultron #1. And Dark Horse continues to do their Joss Whedon TV series continuations with Angel and Faith: Season Ten #1.
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The GOATY is Here! Goat Simulator Launches Today
The most anticipated game of 2014 is out today. Goat Simulator, a developer-described “small, broken and stupid game,” is out on Steam, appropriately, on April Fools’ Day. If you pre-ordered the game (like me), you’ve already been playing since Saturday but now’s the chance for everyone else to get in on the goat fun.
To mark the launch, Coffee Stain Studios did the only appropriate thing and made their launch trailer a parody of the Dead Island trailer.
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Don’t Expect Forever Evil #7 Until May
We’re you looking forward to the final chapter of DC’s big universe-wide Forever Evil event in the eponymous miniseries? Well, you may have to wait a little bit to read that. DC Comics has quietly delayed the release of Forever Evil #7 back to May 21st.
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Report: iPhone 6 to Come in Two Sizes, Both Bigger than the iPhone 5S
I hope you didn’t spend hundreds of dollars on the iPhone 5S thinking that is was going to be the be all and end all of iPhones. Only six months after the release of the latest iPhone, reports have come out about the upcoming bigger and better iPhone 6.
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