Did you ever hide video games in your sock drawer as a teenager? Maybe under your mattress? There’s very few games that required that level of concealment, but one of the first was certainly Custer’s Revenge on the Atari 2600. First released in 1982, Custer’s Revenge is an adult-themed game in which the player controls a nude General George Armstrong
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She’s been dropping hints for weeks, but now Lucasfilm has confirmed that Brie Larson will be joining the cast of Star Wars: Episode IX… as fan-favorite Mara Jade! Larson reacted to the announcement on social media. “I’m double-plus happy to be joining the Star Wars universe as the most iconic character in James (sic) Lucas’ canon!” Larson became a divisive
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Despite a litany of promotional fanfare, DC Comics is ending its costly experiment with Brian Michael Bendis as the writer of both Superman and Action Comics. Bendis will end his run in July, and long-time Superman writer Dan Jurgens will immediately assume writing duties on both books while DC scrambles to find a more long-term solution. Bendis’ take on The
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Did Sonic just get #MeToo’ed? Despite being uncredited, it’s widely known in Sonic fan circles that Michael Jackson was a contributor to the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack. Originally released on the Genesis/Mega Drive in 1994, Jackson was ultimately not fully content with how his contributions turned out, and asked for his name to be stricken from the credits as
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Independent children’s book creator Hanif al-Fadli (Orange and Green, A Scallop‘s Adventure) is ready to jump into comics, and has been teasing a new graphic novel intended to launch on Indiegogo later this year. Titled Super Ninja Terrorist, the book is a lighthearted fantasy/action story intended to mock religious extremism. Here’s a breakdown of the Super Ninja Terrorist project according
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According to an insider at EA Sports, the next entry in the John Madden Football franchise is getting a pretty girthy expansion by way of DLC. The AAF (Alliance of American Football) will be fully represented in the next Madden game, including all eight teams, their stadiums, and their full player roster. Not only will this be the first time
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Earlier this week, Sean Campbell launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Ferryman 2, the follow-up to 2018’s successful cyberpunk-inspired sci-fi/noir tale shockingly titled The Ferryman. The Ferryman 2 is a 28-page comic written by Sean Campbell and featuring illustrations by Dennis Tirona and colors by Ester Salguero. Below is a plot summary taken from the Ferryman 2 Indiegogo page.
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After a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, renowned comic creator Billy Tucci (SHI) has made good on his promise to launch a second campaign on Indiegogo for those who prefer it as a crowdfunding platform. It was fully funded in less than two hours. This huge head start was thanks in no small part to Tucci’s personal friend and comic-creating
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Earlier in March, Headshot Horror Publishing launched a Kickstarter campaign for Pistolera, an all-new 32-page one-shot comic set in the 1800s written by Gilbert Deltrez and featuring illustrations by Mateo Martinez and colors by J.L. Giles. We got a chance to have a quick back and forth with Deltrez who was gracious enough to respond to our questions on the
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IDW Media Holdings has hired J.P. Morgan to explore future strategies for the company, including the possible sale of the company. This news comes just weeks after the IDW board and management received a letter from one of its largest shareholders, ADW Capital Partners, pushing for the sale of the company. ADW holds approximately a 9% stake in IDW. The
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According to the latest issue of Famitsu, Senran Kagura series producer Kenichiro Takaki has left Marvelous Games after 13 years of working with the company. Takaki told Famitsu that his chief reasons for leaving Marvelous were the restrictions on depicting sexual content. While he acknowledged the criticisms against sexual content, Takaki defended such content because there are many who still
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In the media blitz surrounding the promotion of the new Apple Arcade, WayForward has announced that Shantae 5 is in development not only for Apple Arcade, but also for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and other consoles. That’s pretty much all that is known about the new Shantae game at the time. So what else should we talk about? Everyone
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On Tuesday, the crowdfunding campaign for Alejandro Mirabal’s new horror graphic novel Longharbor ended successfully, raising roughly 330% of its original funding goal for a total of over $50 thousand. At that total, the Longharbor campaign also achieved its stretch goal of adding 15 pages to the final book for a girthy total of 85 pages. A “Lovecraftian” graphic novel
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I received my copy of Doug Garrett’s Lone Wolf this week. Since Doug requested that his Indiegogo backers post unboxing videos to see the condition in which his book arrived, I thought I’d be a sport and oblige. If you’d like to watch my clumsy self attempt to one-handedly open a well-taped Gemini mailer, check out the video below.
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On Monday, the Indiegogo campaign for Joe King vs. World’s Greatest Averagehero ended successfully, raising 182% of its goal for a total of $910. It may not have been the loftiest funding goal, but all flavors of success are sweet. Written and illustrated by Canadian comic creator George Peter Gatsis, Joe King is a 32-page superhero parody graphic novel seemingly
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The title almost says it all. Bethesda’s celebrated role-playing series The Elder Scrolls celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and you too can celebrate by snagging a free download of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on PC. That’s a lot of celebration. To get your free digital copy of Morrowind (looks to be the “Game of the Year” edition), log-in
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Over the weekend, It’s Alive! launched a crowdfunding campaign for issue number 51 of Airboy, an aviation-themed hero whose origins date back to the Golden Age of comics. Wait? Issue 51? Yes, indeedy. Writer Chuck Dixon wrote a 50-issue run in the 1980s which updated the Airboy character for contemporary audiences. This Indiegogo campaign will fund issue number 51, which
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More details are slowly trickling out on the Google Stadia, the new streaming gaming service recently announced at GDC. We already have indications that the Stadia service (known internally at Google as Project Yeti) will come with zero cost, leaving gamers having to pay only for the games themselves. One primary concern regarding the Stadia is how much lag gamers
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Last year, Chuck Bonetti and the creative team behind Sporkman: Goes to Japan conducted a crowdfunding campaign to fund the book that came laser close to reaching its goal. After a few months to regroup and recalibrate, the Sporkman team is ready to relaunch with a retooled campaign scheduled to hit Indiegogo on 29 March. We reached out to Bonetti
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Bandai Namco’s One Piece: World Seeker has been available in North America for about a week, but for North American gamers who were still holding out hope to receive the game’s “Hot Spring Mission” titled The Phantom Remedy, consider those hopes dashed. Earlier this week, Bandai Namco confirmed that The Phantom Ready will not be released in the North American
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Renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver is already riding high on the continued success of Cyberfrog: Blood Honey and the promise of his upcoming satire book Reignbow Brute. It seems as though another brainchild had been gestating in his bizarre imagination: Bro White and the Seven Beyotches. Originally dreamed up as a joke response to Kristen Bell’s garbage-tier take
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On Tuesday, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti launched a crowdfunding campaign intended to help the independent comic book publisher expand its operation. Alterna has seen quite a boost in sales over the last couple of years, and now Simeti is looking to raise some cash via Indiegogo to give his business room to grow by expanding its storage space and
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On Tuesday, Cautionary Comics founder Benjamin Henderson announced the creation of “Rockin’ Con”, a new convention celebrating independent music and comic creators of all stripes. Henderson m noted that there would be a more raucous after-party, and day care at which parents can ditch leave their kids. Plus- fireworks? Damn, Ben, how much money are you really making off of
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This week, SEGA started an open online survey to get fan feedback on some of their most popular franchises. The survey is intended to help SEGA “determine the next steps for some of our most popular series.” Several SEGA staples are included in the survey, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Yakuza, Bayonetta, Puyo Puyo, Shenmue, Altered Beast, Phantasy Star, etc. It’s also pretty telling
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Many years ago, a close friend of mine and I had deep literary discussion surrounding a single question… Did Garth Ennis hate writing Hitman 1,000,000? What’s Hitman 1,000,000? It was part of the DC Comics crossover event in 1998 titled DC One Million, in which all of the DC heroes interacted with their superhero counterparts from the 853rd Century. Certainly
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If you grew up watching ’80s or ’90s cartoons, chances are you watched an episode written by Larry DiTillio. Most famous for his work on writing Masters of the Universe, The Real Ghostbusters, and Transformers: Beast Wars, DiTillio’s writing credits also include some slightly more obscure children’s shows including Conan the Adventurer, The California Raisin Show, and Peter Pan and
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Japanese publisher MightyCraft announced on Monday that they’ve pulled the Switch version of Super Real Mahjong PV from the Nintendo eShop because it was found to be too explicit. Originally released in 1994 for the SEGA Saturn, Super Real Mahjong PV is a mahjong simulator with stripping mechanics added as a sexy bonus. Despite the game already being censored when compared to the
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Over the weekend, Jakob Morris launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new graphic novel Necromancer: Tombstone Blues via Indiegogo. Written by Morris and featuring illustrations by Basque artist Ibai Canales (Iron Sights), Necromancer appears to be a mega-mishmash of gothic, cyberpunk, noire and mystery. Here’s a summary of the Necromancer project taken from the Indiegogo campaign page. “In this
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As we reported in February, rumors stemming from French gaming website Jeuxvideo indicated that Microsoft is bringing Xbox Live functionality to the Nintendo Switch. Xbox execs are now putting the kibosh on these rumors, stating that they have no “specific announcements” to share at the time being. Here’s how Microsoft’s Gaming Cloud Chief Kareem Choudhry puts it: “Our goal is
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Over the weekend, Gary Shipman launched a new crowdfunding campaign for Pakkins’ Land Omnibus, a girthy 415-page remastering of the Eisner- and Harvey-Award nominated series, Pakkins’ Land. Here’s Shipman’s synopsis of the Pakkins’ Land project taken from the Indiegogo page. Now for the first time ever the complete PAKKINS’ LAND comic series is offered in a large 11″ x 10 size, in it original Nori,
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The Splintering 