On Wednesday, Coffin Comics’ Lady Death: Nightmare Symphony launched on Kickstarter and has quickly raised over $160 thousand, demolishing its original funding goal of just $15 thousand. This type of success has become a regular occurrence for Coffin Comics and Lady Death creator Brian Pulido. Since moving to a crowdfunding model, Coffin Comics has nurtured a dedicated audience and is
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On Tuesday, a crowdfunding campaign for a new independent comic titled General Washington: Victory or Death launched on Indiegogo. Victory or Death is intended as the first of four graphic novels featuring the valor and heroism of the American patriots who fought and died in the fight for American independence. Project creator Eric Saenz noted that the book will strive
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On Tuesday, Nintendo announced that The World Ends with You: Final Remix is scheduled for release on October 12 for the Nintendo Switch. The World Ends with You was first released for the Nintendo DS in 2007 where it didn’t achieve great sales success, but it was critically well-received and managed to develop a dedicated fan base. This updated Final
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According to the latest issue of Famitsu, both Ares and Odin will be included in the playable roster of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors Oroichi 4. In a separate announcement last week, Koei Tecmo announced that the Greek hero Perseus would be playable in Warriors Orochi 4. Koei Tecmo has also announced five of the eight characters who will have a “Deification
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Since it’s apparently “Terry Bogard Week” and nobody told me ahead of time, I’m a bit late in reporting that the main protagonist of SNK’s Fatal Fury series is joining the roster of Arika’s Fighting EX Layer for PS4. “Terry Bogard Week” or not, Fatal Fury’s “hungry wolf” is certainly making the rounds in this year’s announcements at EVO 2018.
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On Monday, Doug TenNapel debuted his plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign for Bigfoot Bill, a new comic book project. TenNapel made the announcement during a livestream chat on Ethan Van Sciver’s Comic Artist Pro Secrets YouTube channel (See video below, discussion begins at approximately 24:30). TenNapel intends to launch the Bigfoot Bill project on Indiegogo sometime next Monday, August
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This weekend, Bandai Namco revealed that Soulcalibur series mainstays Seong Mi-Na and Astaroth would be included in the fighting roster of Soulcalibur VI. Both characters are well-known to fans of the series, as Seong Mi-Na first appeared in Soul Edge while Astaroth first appeared in the original Soulcalibur. The announcement came during EVO 2018, where Soulcalibur series producer Motohiro Okubo
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This weekend, the Kickstarter campaign independent comic Blue Mamba was cancelled by the project’s creator, Jim Healis. However, the project was resurrected almost immediately on Indiegogo, with updated backer tiers and funding goals. The project quickly found its audience and was successfully funded in less than 10 hours. Healis announced his plans to move the project to Indiegogo on Sunday
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SNK revealed last week that Fatal Fury lead character Terry Bogard would appear in gender-bended form in the upcoming female-only fighter SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. As it turns out, female fans of SNK and its characters have heralded the arrival of fem-Terry for quite some time- in cosplay form! Below is just a sample of the dedicated ladies who
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If you’ve ever wanted to take a spiked baseball bat to Heihachi’s teeth, Tekken 7 is giving you that chance. This weekend, Bandai Namco announced new fighters who would be joining the Tekken 7 roster via DLC, including The Walking Dead‘s iconic villain, Negan. The announcement came at EVO 2018 following a Tekken 7 tournament, series producers Katushiro Harada and
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On Thursday, a crowdfunding campaign for a new graphic novel titled Public Domain launched on Indiegogo. Public Domain is the second book intended as part of the “Superverse”, a shared comic book universe created by Ben Dunn and heavily influenced by comic books of the 1940s and 1950s. The first Superverse project, Jungle Comics, was successfully funded on Indiegogo in
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SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is certainly turning out to be a bizarre fighter, but according to the latest release by the game’s publisher, NIS America, it just got quite a bit stranger. Terry Bogard, the main protagonist of SNK’s Fatal Fury series, has been added to the roster. “Isn’t SNK Heroines only supposed to have female characters and isn’t
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Marvelous Games may finally be giving Western PS4 owners the chance to play their stylish brawler Uppers, as a recent Australian rating suggests. Released on PlayStation Vita in 2016 exclusively in Japan, Western gamers following Uppers were possibly losing hope of ever seeing a release overseas due to the dwindling support of the PS Vita platform. Uppers is an over-the-top
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford blames SEGA, not his own developers, for the “Aliens: Colonial Marines” typo controversy by citing years of poor spellchecking on SEGA’s part dating back to the 1980s
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On Monday, the crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey ended as a massive success, raising 6659% of its original goal for a total of $535,012 – that’s over half a million dollars, folks. For those keeping track, it’s also a new record for a crowdfunded comic book. Cyberfrog is the creation of veteran comic book artist and YouTube Star Wars
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for PunchLine: Blood Sisters ended successfully, raising 178% of its original funding goal for a total of $9812. The creative team behind PunchLine includes industry veterans Bill Williams (writer) and Matthew Weldon (illustrator), though this project is their first collaboration together. The Indiegogo campaign was set up to fund signed hard cover and trade paperback
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On Friday, award-winning author Jon Del Arroz launched a crowdfunding campaign for Flying Sparks: A Hero and Villain in Love via Indiegogo. Del Arroz is best known for his steampunk novel For Steam and Country. The Flying Sparks comic features illustrations by Jethro Morales (Dejah Thoris, The Green Hornet) and a cover by the Jawbreakers: Lost Souls art team of
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On Thursday, the crowdfunding campaign for Graham Nolan’s Monster Island ended successfully, raising a total of $25,091 from 248 backers. The Kickstarter project was for two books, a 20th anniversary hardcover edition of the original Monster Island as well as a special release titled Black Book: the Art of Graham Nolan, which includes a number of sketches and previously uncirculated
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Earlier this week, the Indiegogo campaign for Red Rooster: Golden Age topped $100 thousand. As announced on social media by Golden Age colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser, the $100k stretch goal brings with it a chance for one lucky backer to win original artwork by Red Rooster creator Mitch Breitweiser and Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver. Red Rooster: Golden Age is a
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Early Thursday morning, the crowdfunding campaign for Beatdown Girl ended successfully, raising 216% of its original goal for a total of $2,673. Beatdown Girl is the first independent sci-fi comic/graphic novel written and illustrated by Navy veteran Jacob Bihl, who studied at the Kubert School of Cartooning after his service in the Navy ended. According to the project’s Indiegogo page,
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I like to give Australians a bit of crap over how miserably their government approaches mature-themed video games, but truth be told, Australia has nothing on the over-the-top nonsense that comes out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This week, several Western news outlets reported that the Saudi Arabian government had added 47 games to the list of those banned
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A new sci-fi/horror comic Stardust was launched on Indiegogo Monday and was fully funded within the first 24 hours. Stardust is created by writer Nasser Rabadi and illustrator Shawn Langley, who appears to be heavily inspired by the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft. Both creators have previously delivered on past creative projects, as Rabadi has published two novels while Langley has
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At E3 2018, Nintendo announced their plans to release more classic arcade titles on the Switch eShop as part of its “Arcade Archives” program. Priced at $7.99 a pop, Nintendo added the original Donkey Kong as well as the previously Japan-only Sky Skipper to the list of already available digital games, with the latter arriving on the eShop this week.
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Cautionary Comics’ Ravage – Kill All Men ended successfully after raising nearly $37 thousand, which is 247% of its original funding goal. The story of Ravage is the brainchild of writer and Cautionary Comics’ founder, Benjamin L. Henderson (The Magus, The Offworlder), who is joined by co-writer and long-time comic veteran Chuck Dixon
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The crowdfunding campaign for Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Heart of the Hero launched over the weekend, and it’s already off to a solid start raising over $18 thousand and already surpassing its original funding goal of $15 thousand. Mike S. Miller is a 26-year veteran of the comics industry, having worked most recently as the artist in the Injustice video
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The crowdfunding campaign for Jack Irons: the Steel Cowboy issue 2 ended on Friday, hitting 268% of its funding goal for a total of close to $7 thousand. Jack Irons is an 8-issue comic series written by Cody Fernandez, illustrations by Maximilliano D’allo and colors by Matias Laborde. Issue 2 is expected to be 32 pages with an additional 16
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The once PlayStation-exclusive Yakuza series will soon be expanding its audience when Yakuza Zero comes to PC later in August. But will Xbox One owners ever get a chance to enjoy Yakuza titles on their platform? Series producer Daisuke Sato says, “Maybe.” In a recent interview with Gameblog, Sato indicated that his team at SEGA would consider porting the Yakuza
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Publisher Microids has announced that their retro arcade platformer Toki is coming to Nintendo Switch in November along with a special edition that features a physical arcade cabinet. This remake published by Microids not only features upgraded visuals and re-orchestrated music, but there will also be the ‘Retrollector’ edition which includes a physical copy of the game, a comic book,
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On Tuesday, DC Comics released the first details of their upcoming Vertigo title Six Days via an interview with the two writers of the book, Robert Venditti (Hawkman, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp) and Kevin Mauer (No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden). Six Days is a nonfiction book that recounts
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In the wee morning hours on Monday, the Indiegogo campaign for issue 1 of The Ferryman successfully reached its funding goal of $2,200 with 18 days remaining before the campaign ends. The Ferryman is written by Sean Campbell and features illustrations by Dennis Tirona and colors by Ester Salguero. This first issue of this science-fiction/mystery series is a 22-page comic
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The Splintering 