Pokémon USA has announced that the National Championship event for the Pokémon TCG, which has been held in conjunction with GAMA’s Origins Game Fair, will become a stand-alone event. According to a report at ICv2, the 2009 Pokémon National Championship is scheduled for St. Louis the weekend of June 26 to 28, directly opposite the…
ICv2 reports that Chas DeLong has been named Operations Manager for newly formed Piñata Games. The company is attempting to gain control of the HeroClix CMG from Topps. DeLong has worked in production management and is familiar with the genre gaming field having spent the last ten years at Wizards of the Coast and WizKids. …
Ridley Scott is going to Boardwalk in style. He is in talks with Universal to direct a movie based on the Parker Brothers’ classic Monopoly according to The Hollywood Reporter. Scott first announced his interest in the project on June 19, 2007. Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride) is already at work on a screenplay for the…
I’m not objective when it comes to James Bond. [[[Dr. No]]] was the first “grown-up” movie I ever saw, and I’ve been writing about 007 in magazines and my books ever since. Nor am I particularly dispassionate about [[[Casino Royale]]]. The New York premiere at the great Zeigfeld Theater was the best experience I’ve had…
Comic books, admittedly, don’t have a great history when itcomes to video game adaptations. Hell,most games based on licensed properties have a certain stigma about them. It probably stems from the fact that theyfeel like a cheap cash-in…a way to make a quick buck on a popular fad such asmovies, TV shows, and yes, comics. …
In 1987, television was evolving. Thanks to [[[Hill Street Blues]]], the way dramatic stories were presented became more complex, the storytelling more diverse and the stories more compressed. The subject matter was also starting to broaden, moving beyond cops, lawyers and doctors. It was just before the SF wave kicked off with [[[Star Trek: The…
Remember the comic miniseries Arkham Asylum: Living Hell where a regular guy gets sent to the madhouse for Batman’s criminally insane enemies?Well, now that could be you. Gamestop is sponsoring a contest where your likeness will be put in the Batman: Arkham Asylum game. You’ll get to co-star with Mark Hammil who was recently announced…
Brett Ratner is no stranger to bringing pop culture icons to the screen. After all, he directed the third X-Men film and is attached to bringing Valiant’s Harbinger to the screen. He’s even handling the big screen adaptation of the video game God of War. But…Guitar Hero? Ratner told MTV News, "I would love to…
At the Liepzig Games Convention, Midway had revealed the latest characters to appear in Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe. And is cool as it was to hear that Deathstroke the Terminator will be getting his videogame debut (we’re not counting the animated Teen Titans game), nothing beats game producer Hector Sanchez demonstrating the Joker’s fighting…
Scout, Volume Two By Timothy Truman Dynamite Entertainment, July 2008, $19.95 This, as you might have guessed from the title of the book, is the second collection of Tim Truman’s [[[Scout]]] series, originally published over twenty-four issues starting in 1987 from Eclipse Comics. (You young ‘uns won’t know from Eclipse, but they were one of…
Those who own or know people who own an iPhone have probably come in contact with an application that has been on the iTunes top 25 applications since the birth of the App Store, and easily one of the most entertaining. The PhoneSaber app is a very simple yet enjoyable application which uses the accelerometer…
