On Friday, La Muerta #1: Retribution, the latest crowdfunding project from Coffin Comics, completed its funding period, raising 800% of its goal for a total of over $86 thousand from more than thousand backers. This marks yet another strong Kickstarter project for Coffin Comics, having conducted several other wildly successful campaigns including Brian Pulido’s Lady Death comics and La Muerta
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The word on the street is that Rocksteady, the developers behind the Batman: Arkham series, will show off a new Superman game at E3 to be followed by a cover story in next month’s issue of Game Informer. While this isn’t the first time a similar rumor has circulated, Rocksteady is certainly due a new game in the near future
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On Wednesday, Square Enix announced via Twitter that NieR: Automata has sold 3 million copies worldwide, including both physical and digital sales. While those aren’t ground-breaking numbers, they have to be encouraging to Square Enix as the original NieR (aka NieR: Gestalt in some territories) sold for a combined total of less than a million copies on PS3 and Xbox
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Valve doesn’t want to be your mom. The PC game distributor announced today that they will not remove games or software from their Steam platform unless the product in question is either flatly illegal or “trolling” users. This decision follows a series of controversies regarding whether to allow risqué Japanese titles or games that mimicked school shootings on Steam. While
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Ethan Van Sciver’s Cyberfrog: Blood Honey crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo is already a remarkable success. Having raised over $150 thousand in less than one week, Cyberfrog is on track to being one of the most successful comic book crowdfunding campaigns to date. Perhaps it is that very success which inspired someone to post a fraudulent copy of the Cyberfrog Indiegogo
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Today marks the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landing on French shores which began the liberation of Europe during World War II. To mark the occasion, I picked out some of my favorite patriotic comic book covers from the era to display here. I hope you get a kick out of them. Now go buy some war bonds and Smash
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In January, SEGA of Japan displayed a new installment in its arcade light gun series House of the Dead at its Akihabara building. Now it looks like House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn is heading to Western arcades. SEGA Amusements recently updated their arcade page with the following: “Horror has never looked or felt this real… This is terror like
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Limited Run Games announced last week that it will hold its own press conference during E3 2018 to take place at 3pm Eastern Time on Monday, June 11. This is the first time the North Carolina-based publisher will hold its own press conference, though LRG had a presence at E3 in previous years, including announcing 17 new releases at E3
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This past week, Intellivision Entertainment announced that it intended to revamp its brand by naming “Video Games Live” creator and 30-year video game industry veteran Tommy Tallarico as President of Intellivision Entertainment… and by introducing a new home video game console. Described as simple, affordable, family-friendly and fun, not much else is known about the yet unnamed Intellivision console. Tallarico
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Since 2012, fans of SEGA’s Shenmue series have used social media to campaign for the series’ return. With the re-releases of the original two games coming soon and Shenmue III slated for release in 2019, what more is there to say? “Thank you,” of course.
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On Tuesday, Sega of Japan held a live stream broadcast featuring the Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 remasters for the PS4. During the broadcast, franchise lead Toshihiro Nagoshi mentioned that previous Yakuza games on PlayStation 3 cut content during the localization process, and that SEGA’s goal for the upcoming PS4 remasters is to release them completely uncut. This will restore
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On Wednesday, comic book artist and YouTubeStar Wars commentator Ethan Van Sciver launched the long-awaited crowdfunding campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey on Indiegogo. Originally seeking 8 thousand dollars to fully fund the project, that benchmark was reached roughly 20 minutes after the campaign went live. Van Sciver (Scriver?) created and published Cyberfrog comics from 1993 to 1998, but abandoned the
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The original super fighting robot will return to consoles and PC on October 11. According to Capcom’s newest release, Mega Man 11 will also feature a new gameplay feature dubbed the “Double Gear system,” which enhances Mega Man’s normal capabilities. The Speed Gear briefly slows down time giving Mega Man time to react to more frantic moments. Sounds like the
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Gaming pioneer and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney passed away on Saturday at the age of 80. Historian Leonard Herman, who told Dabney’s story in an article for “Edge” magazine in 2009, announced his death on Facebook. In 1971, Dabney co-founded Syzygy with Nolan Bushnell where they developed Computer Space, the world’s first commercially available arcade video game. Rather than use
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After finally being inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame this year, former wide receiver Terrell Owens has also been named the cover athlete for a special Hall of Fame Edition of Madden 19. The cover athlete for the standard edition of Madden 19 will be announced at a later date. This isn’t the first time that T.O. has graced
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Note: while this post contains some factual information, it is largely for entertainment purposes. G’day kids. It’s me. The really-real Randy Pitchford.* The Randster. As the CEO and President of Gearbox Software, the publisher of We Happy Few, I wanted to address the Australian government’s decision to ban the sale of our game, so naturally I turned to the most
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DC clearly had big hopes when they poached long-time Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis to helm their Superman books starting with the six-issue Man of Steel mini-series in May. However, sources at DC Comics indicate that the orders from comic book stores for Bendis’ Man of Steel series have been far lower than they expected. DC went as far to
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The women of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy will arrive on Japanese consoles September 6, according to Famitsu. That’s a full 24 hours earlier than us poor beggars in the West will get to play with these lovely ladies when SNK Heroines arrives on North American and European shores September 7. In addition, SNK released images of yet another character
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According to the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation, SEGA will release remastered versions of Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4, and Yakuza 5 for PlayStation 4. The remasterd releases will have improved resolution and frame rates similar to the previous series remasters, Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2. Here are the Japanese release details so far: • Yakuza 3 – August 9 for
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On Monday, Batman writer Tom King shared some new artwork by Joelle Jones showcasing Catwoman’s new costume design. This new costume will officially arrive on comic pages in July after the big Batman/Catwoman wedding event. What do you think of her new getup? Thanks for reading! Please consider following The Splintering on social media or bookmarking the site for more
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Rumors have been flying left and right that Retro Studios is developing a Star Fox racing game for the Nintendo Switch, possibly titled Star Fox: Grand Prix. Reactions to this prospect ranged from excitement to dismay, leading almost the entire Internet left asking “Why not F-Zero?” No matter your take on a possible Star Fox racing game, the minds of
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Shenmue fans will have to wait just a bit longer for the long-awaited release of the third installment to the series. Which means we’ll also have to wait a bit longer to punch Lan Di in his smug-ass face. In a statement released Wednesday, Shenmue III publisher Deep Silver announced their decision to delay the release until 2019, citing the
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Konami can’t be troubled to do much with their gaming IPs these days, which makes their upcoming release of Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner M∀RS for PC & PS4 all the more baffling. This remastered edition of Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner M∀RS was first announced at the 2017 Tokyo Game Show. Features of the updated
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This past week at BitSummit, Inti Creates debuted a trailer for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, a retro-inspired, supernatural side-scrolling action game set to arrive on May 24. Curse of the Moon comes as a bonus release to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015. One of the promised stretch goals for the Ritual
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On Wednesday, Capcom posted an overview of its strategies and plans for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. As part of that, the company provided insight into growth strategies, and its focus going forward. Capcom first highlighted that, with new titles, it will “regularly release titles for major IP while also utilizing dormant IP and remakes”. A part of the
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On Thursday, 20th Century Fox released the first teaser trailer for Shane Black’s reboot of The Predator, and the reaction online was… mixed. Before forming your own thoughts, give the trailer a quick watch then scroll below to see some of the Internet’s more spirited comments. Viewers wasted little time voicing their opinions on The Predator trailer, and the general
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The Indiegogo campaign for the Jawbreakers: Lost Souls* graphic novel ended early Thursday morning, and it’s safe to say that it closed out as a resounding success raising $196,078, roughly 3890% higher than the original goal of just five thousand dollars. Jawbreakers: Lost Souls is a superhero action/adventure story intended as a blend of The Expendables and The Guardians of
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An alien race known as the Smurglians have invaded Earth, and they’re intent on loitering in our coffee shops, using the free WiFi, asking to use the bathroom, and refusing to leave when asked to do so! Well, two coffee shop baristas from Pittsburgh aren’t waiting for authorities to deal with this Smurglian menace – they’re taking control of the
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In recent Q&A session with investors, outgoing Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima indicated that their core fan base alone will not be sufficient to hit Nintendo’s sales goals of 20 million Switch consoles this fiscal year, and that widening the Switch’s appeal to non-traditional consumers is the best way to achieve this. “For the launch of Nintendo Switch, we conducted a
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In late April, comic book publisher IDW announced that John Barber would be the company’s new Editor-in-Chief, and Anita Frazier would be the new Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Barber in particular has a long resume in the comic book industry, including well-regarded stories at Marvel Comics such as Old Man Logan and Marvel Zombies as well as
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