This week, there’s only one comic that matters for me this week. Kevin Smith’s The Green Hornet series crosses over with DC Comics’ Batman ’66 series in a moment that should bring back memories of the original TV series. Back in 1967, The Green Hornet and Kato joined forces with Batman and Robin in one of the original TV crossovers. This week, it happens again as the four crimefighters reunite in Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #1.
Elsewhere, Boom adapts the cult hit Big Trouble in Little China for print complete with input from director John Carpenter for Big Trouble in Little China #1. And Judge Dredd completes his five-issue west coast adventure in Judge Dredd: Mega City Two #5.
Just because Irrational Games has effective shut down as it restructures to become the world’s highest-profile indie-sized game developer, that doesn’t mean that their epic BioShock franchise is gone with them.
2K Marin, the studio that helped Irrational with BioShock and developed BioShock 2, has been tapped by Take-Two Interactive, 2K Games’ parent company, to once again take over BioShock and make the next game in the series.
Normally, I try to wedge in a little bit of an intro for these posts before I put in the jump from the home page to the full post. Today, I don’t feel up to doing it. If you watched this episode, you’ll understand why. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it and come back.
It seems as though this week’s game trailers roundup has less to do with trailers that were released over the last seven days but more to do with trailers that were leaked.
Publishers are so beholden to major events like E3, Gamescom and PAX that they don’t bother trying to break free from the busy convention news cycle to their own waves and get a ton of buzz as the only major headline at a point of time. This week, the cops and robbers edition of Battlefield and PS4’s Project Beast both had trailers leaked. If they let these run during E3, they might have gotten lost in the shuffle. Getting out ahead of the conventions got them headlines.
Elsewhere, we have teaser trailers for BattleCry, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Quantum Break.
If there are two passions of mine that I write about far too frequently, it’s motorsports and video games. Naturally, I love writing about and playing motorsport video games, especially proper racing sims.
Today, I have an infographic that combines both of my passions into one. Our friends at Team Sport have a look back at the history and evolution of racing video games. It even includes two games from Papyrus Racing Games who are my favourite racing sim devs of all time.
Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licencing Company have settled a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit over the use of the likenesses of NCAA Division I (and FBS) football and basketball players in EA Sports video games without compensation.
After agreeing to a settlement in principle back in September 2013, the three parties agreed to a settlement worth $40 million for the estimated up to 200,000 players who appeared in the EA Sports NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball / March Madness games since 2003.
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