My reading reviews of X-Men: Destinies before I went out to buy it.

IGN aren't impressed. Neither are Joystiq, 1up or a lot of the punters on metacritic.

Am I right in thinking that there's not been a decent X-Men game since Rise of Apocalypse on the PS2?

There will be a Batman Beyond skin if you preorder Arkham City from Gamestop.

This is cool since you only see the Conroy Batman in the Beyond suit for like 5 minutes on the show.

http://gotgame.com/2011/07/29/batman-beyond-in-arkham-city-gamestop ( Read more... )

Holy crap! I am getting some Year One vibes here, but this is also PLENTY of refreshing things. This looks like it will be the game to aspire to when it comes out. Thats not to mention the visuals.
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Use two words to describe a comic book character!

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Thanks to schmevil's poll, we know that nearly half of us are gamers. So I wondered, what are my fellow noscansdaily-ers' thoughts on yaoi comics/manga/manwa of videogames ( Read more... )

So a couple weeks ago, the great stubbleupdate proposed a "drinking" game for THE BLACKEST NIGHT. He used Smarties, which would be a damn well perfect choice except that they're not commonly available in the US. So what to do, I asked? What to do? Stubble then suggested Jelly Belly jelly beans. And it went on from there ( Read more... )

http://www.tu4ar.com/intro/

Oh look, why is the only Marvel character featured there FUCKING WOLVERINE AGAIN, AUGH.

God help us all.

DC's long awaited Blackest Night storyline is about to kick off.

To make reading the event more enjoyable, try the ( Blackest Night 'drinking' game )

I came across something the other day that I thought might amuse people here. I play D&D was was looking through The Players' Handbook 2 which just came out. In there was a spell called "Bolts of Bedevilment." Clearly someone at Wizards of the Coast is a fan of Silver Age Dr. Strange comics.

Speaking of gaming, the reason I was at the bookstore the ( Read more... )

Post a superhero/villain/anti-hero/major character/minor character and let's see how many factoids people can come up with off the top of their heads about that character. Bonus points for personal anecdotes concerning the character.

I'll start off with Firestorm.