Monthly Archives: February 2016
Transformers: Earth Wars Is Autobots vs. Decepticons on Mobile
Transformers: Earth Wars is coming to iOS and Android devices in the second quarter of 2016.
The real-time strategy game uses "fast-paced gameplay and beautiful 3D animation" to pit Autobots against Decepticons. Players choose to wage war as either side, with Optimus Prime leading the Autobots as they battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons, led by Megatron.
After picking a side, players can then put together a "powerful team of playable characters," raid enemy bases for stockpiles of Energon, build a space-bridge to Cybertron for reinforcements, "all while playing in real-time against other players around the globe."
Transformers: Earth Wars also features art "inspired by the Transformers Generations Prime Wars trilogy series," with dialogue written comic-writer Simon Furman. The original voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, along with Megatron voice actor Frank Welker, are lending their talents to the game.
Spider-Man, Avengers Get Age of Apocalypse Costumes
With the Apocalypse Wars crossover hitting Marvel’s X-Men comics starting in May, the rest of Marvel’s heroes are getting in on the action with apocalyptic new variant covers. Twenty-three comics will get a variant featuring its title characters re-imagined as though they were from the Age of Apocalypse or Horsemen of Apocalypse.
We have your first look at seven of these covers.
Amazing Spider-Man #12 cover by Jamal Campbell
SEGA CEO Talks About the Future of the Company
Hajime Satomi, president and CEO of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc, has spoken about the future of Sega in the entertainment industry.
In an interview with The World Folio, Satomi confirmed that a "live-action and animation hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog movie" is scheduled for release in 2018, in collaboration with Sony Pictures. "Like with this CG animation production, we would like to expand our business into other entertainment areas beyond what we are currently involved," Satomi said.
A New Pokemon Character Has Been Revealed
A new Pokemon has been revealed.
According to Serebii, the new Pokemon was shown off in the latest issue of CoroCoro, and goes by the name of Magiana (マギアナ).
Image credit Corocoro
The site goes on to note Magiana is a “Man-Made” Pokemon, presumably in a similar bracket to Mewtwo, and has a “metallic body.” Also, Magiana was created over 500 years ago and is being chased by Volcanion, who apparently knows Magiana’s secret, what ever that is.
New Hitman Seems Ready to Please Old-School Fans
It’s not every day that the head of a veteran AAA-game-making studio tells you to “please try and break it – that’s what makes the game fun!” But that’s exactly what Io Interactive boss Hannes Seifert told me before I sat down to play an early build of the episodic Hitman reboot. It’s heading into beta this week, and I was eager to see how the series would return to its sandbox-y roots.
I started with Agent 47’s tutorial: a prologue set 20 years ago, back when he was passing tests to become an agent. The bullets are rubber and you’re not technically killing anyone – probably the only time in the game you’re not registering an actual body count. It’s a capable enough tutorial – I got a disguise on a dock, snuck into a yacht party, pretended to bartend, then followed my target until he was alone and choked him to death with my garrote – but I was eager to get to the real thing.
Mario Kart x Star Wars Mashup Looks Like The Best Game Ever
Mario Kart x Star Wars might just be the best video game mashup ever conceived.
In a video by Dark Pixel Digital, you can see what such a team up might look like were it ever to happen.
The video shows the cast of Mario Kart racing through space in X-Wings, Y-Wings, and generally anything from the Star Wars universe that can fly. The race starts at Rainbow Road, before the racers jump to lightspeed and end up on Tatooine, and even, the Death Star.
In other Star Wars-related news, did you know Kylo Ren’s force rumble noise is actually a cat? Meowth, that's right.
Get a Look at YouTube Red’s Lazer Team and Scare PewDiePie
YouTube Red is rolling out its first wave of original content on Wednesday, February 10th, and IGN has sneak peeks at two of its most anticipated series.
First up, an exclusive clip from Rooster Teeth's first feature film, Lazer Team, in which The Champion of Earth tries to stop the team from stealing his suit:
On the other end of the spectrum, reality show Scare PewDiePie is going to force YouTuber Felix Kjellberg into situations inspired by his favorite horror games and scare him in the same way playing those games terrifies him. In this clip, he finds himself in an abandoned spaceship and learns that his next scare challenge is to stop an alien invasion.
Johnny Depp to Reportedly Play Invisible Man for Universal
Universal Studios has reportedly cast Johnny Depp as the leading man in its upcoming film reboot of The Invisible Man.
Depp in Mortdecai
According to Deadline, Depp will join Universal's Monsters universe as the iconic scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible. There's no word yet on who is writing the script, though, Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are on board to produce.
The Flash EPs on Earth-2, Zoom’s Identity, Hunter Zolomon and More
The Flash visited Earth-2 at long last in "Welcome to Earth-2," a trip through the Multiverse that resulted in a lot of doppelgängers, a lot of Easter eggs and a lot of licorice. Executive producers Aaron and Todd Helbing took the time to chat with a group of reporters about the episode's big moments, the nods to the series' expanded universe and what to expect in next week's "Escape from Earth-2."
Full spoilers for "Welcome to Earth-2," as well as teases for future episodes, continue below.
The Frozen Broadway Musical is Coming 2018
Disney's smash hit Frozen will finally become a real, live musical in Spring, 2018.
Billboard reports that Alex Timbers (Jersey Boys, Peter and the Starcatcher) will direct the show and Peter Darling (Billy Elliot, Matilda) will choreograph, while Frozen writer Jennifer Lee and composers Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez will return to write the book and music respectively.
The announcement was made on the newly minted Frozen on Broadway Twitter account.
FROZEN is slated for Broadway spring 2018 following a pre‐Broadway engagement summer 2017 https://t.co/fMTWzu5XAi