Transmedia-tastic: Kerschl and Stewart create Assassin’s Creed comic
Cross-over everywhere: cartoonists Karl Kerschl and Cameron Stewart talk about how they created a comic that expands the universe of the wildly popular video game, Assassin's Creed. In keeping with all the transmedia stuff you're always hearing about, they were given quite a bit of latitude to create their own characters and give the spin-off their own spin. ASSASSIN'S CREED: THE FALL will run three issues and be published by Ubisoft.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween, Supplemental: Angry Birds
You hardly need us to tell you this, but there is a special Halloween-themed, 45-level bonus Angry Birds game that just went on sale for $.99. Angry Birds is an obsession around Stately Beat Manor, and paired with our other obsession, Halloween, it means that we'll be posting even LESS soon, if that is possible.
Continue ReadingMMORPG-addicted China to get even more animated
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A story in The Hollywood Reporter suggests that China is looking to get bigger in the international animation/comics field: Leading the charge is the city of Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province in southwest China. Since 2007, the city has been staging an annual Asian Youth Animation and Comics Contest, which this year [...]
Continue Reading“Keep them in the dark” — what some very bad publishers are really thinking
Late last night Twitter flared with anger over a post entitled How to hire an artist by a designer of Flash-based computer games. Although we usually don't quote things so extensively, it seems that running enough of an excerpt to get the whole story is important here (plus is may be taken down). This is what the author, Christopher Gregorio, has to say about selecting an artist for a game project:
Continue ReadingSD10: DCUO and Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment has a lot going on for this November's launch of the DC Universe Online game, including a fan event featuring Jim Lee and Marv Wolfman and a block party at SOE's hq. VIP Beta keys will be available at all the events, as well.
Continue ReadingE3 comics stuff
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Beat is contractually not allowed to pay attention to video games, but the E3 convention just wrapped up and we’ll just direct you to iFanboy’s E3 2010 Comic Game News Roundup which has all the news on Spiderman Marvel vs Capcom, Scott Pilgrim, and something called Comic Jumper which [...]
Continue ReadingMORE SCOTT PILGRIM: Video game gameplay montage
A Scott Pilgrim video game is coming from Ubisoft later this year as a downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade and PSN. The game has been created with a retro 16-bit look and a soundtrack by chiptune band Anamanaguchi. Rating: Awesome.
Continue ReadingScott Pilgrim music and video game spin-off news attains new level of awesomeness
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Last week’s Scott-Pil-palooza of news was crowned off by a couple of notes on the music and the video game spin-off. Comics Alliance notes that the music in the memorized-by-dozens trailers was by Beck, based, as creator Bryan Lee O’Malley noted, on some of his scribblings. Laura Hudson notes it’s [...]
Continue ReadingWATCHMEN — the games
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVariety reports that WATCHMEN will be adapted as a series of downlaodable games . Two are planned with one coming out when the movie does and the other with the DVD release. The games are being developed by Danish developer Deadline Games, and will star Rorschach and Nite Owl, hurm hurm. WBIE [...]
Continue ReadingWonderful World of LEGO
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIf you missed the article in Gamepro this month spotlighting the new LEGO Batman game, why not take a look at this clip featuring LEGO Two-Face and LEGO Scarecrow? And before we get LEGO Batman, We’ll be getting LEGO Indiana Jones on June 3.
Continue ReadingGTA IV end of life as we know it
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Beat’s temporary slowdown on blogging is not, as might be expected, because of the arrival of Grand Theft Auto IV, which will probably be the biggest grosser of the year, movie, book or game. However it must be said that the complete cultural victory by the geek/nerd/video game set [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel MMO bites the dust
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe long in development Marvel MMO (massive multiplayer online game) which was being made by Marvel and Cryptic Studios (Dity of Heroes) will never be. Shane Kim, head of Microsoft Games Studios, explains why: “I don’t think it’s necessarily a case of what went wrong,” Kim told me. “I don’t know that [...]
Continue ReadingIs the LEGO BATMAN video game the greatest thing in human history?
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Continue ReadingTime killer/'90s nostalgia
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Tyrian for Mac! In related news, we are old and busted and need some time in the shop. It’s the quiet time of year anyway, and everyone has better things to do than sit in front of the computer, anyway, unless it’s to buy holiday presents. Which is the only reason we [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel MMO mysteries
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMuch online chatter that the long-planned Marvel online role playing game has foundered on rocky shoals. This follows a bunch of moves involving City of Heroes: Last week, NCSoft announced it had acquired the City of Heroes IP from Cryptic Studios. Additionally, the staff behind the franchise — approximately 15% of Cryptic [...]
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