Last night at the Diamond Retailer Summit, IDW Games announced a deal with John Layman and Rob Guillory that will create a new line of CHEW tabletop games for fans to sink their teeth into. The smash-hit comic series is already on its way to an animated adaptation, and starting in early 2015 fans hungry for more CHEW will have yet another way to devour their favorite title.
This summer, fans of The X-Files will have a brand-new way to search for the truth, with the release of a brand-new big box board game! Players will get the chance to take on the role of Mulder, Scully, and the X-Files team as they work to uncover global conspiracies and threats while going up against various members of the Syndicate.
What happens when over 80 creators from the world’s top video game studios join forces to create the ultimate dark fantasy game? The answer is SUBSTRATA, a brilliant new art book collecting designs for the heroes, enemies, and landscapes of this hypothetical new game world… SUBSTRATA is the brainchild of illustrator Paul Richards, who conceived of the project as a way to reunite his fellow artists from Vigil Games, makers of the Darksiders franchise. Together, they rallied a global community of artists and the result is a breathtaking tome, featuring a who’s-who of top-tier talent from across the gaming industry. SUBSTRATA is a true passion project, where artists were encouraged to forsake conventions,...
Team NINJA and Dark Horse Comics today launched the three-part YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z digital comic series, providing insight into the backstory in three revealing vignettes. Yaiba takes a break from slaughtering zombies in the debut issue to tell the tale of how his often bloody sword became to be known as “Heartless” as he recounts the story to Miss Monday.
Today, IDW Games announced it had signed J.K. Woodward and Dave Dorman to be the art team for their launch title, Kill Shakespeare. Woodward’s work has been a mainstay at IDW since 2005, where he helped relaunch Fallen Angel before moving on to various Star Trek series, including last-year’s best-selling Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who maxi-series. Dave Dorman is an Eisner Award-winning artist known for his extensive work in the fantasy genre, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and much more.
There have been very few men in the history of comic book villains who have been able to portray the role of The Joker properly. The role requires a beautifully crafted and enthusiastic individual to be able to soundly portray the qualities that define the character. With the interpretation of DC comics balancing the line of rise and fall of success and failure through out the years, it should come as no surprise that the Arkham Games have completely pounded the nail on the head.
Last week in Boston Metal Machine had the pleasure of attending the Boston Festival of Indie Games at the MIT campus for a day. In our adventures, we stumbled onto some of the most innovative and learning-centered forms of gaming that the industry has seen to date. The talent in the youth of gaming developers is heightening and thriving as the years go by and this showcase only proved to incite massive amounts of excitement for the future of what is to come.
The news came as a blow to all fans of the Elder Scrolls series. Not only would they have to pay for the online subscription for The Elder Scrolls Online, they would also have to purchase and Xbox Gold member account. Fan’s of online gaming have long endured the suffrage of subscription hounding games with inflation of price, additional charges, and renewals annually, however, being slapped with a double charge so Microsoft can benefit from an already sound investment sounds like a little bit too much, and Bethesda is fighting back.
