"What happens when Arkham Asylum spills over into Gotham City? The citizens of Gotham run to their nearest Army surplus store and stock up on spring shoes and assault rifles! Monolith Productions, the creators of the much loved No One Lives Forever series on the PC is back and zanier than ever with this absolutely unique take on downloadable multiplayer shooters, where one team dresses up as their favorite masked superhero Batman, while the other is decked out like his criminally insane archnemesis, The Joker! Sporting what seems to be a Team Fortress 2 vibe, players can customize their character and unlock a variety of weapons and upgrades across several game types."- Shanghai Six
Warner Brother's DC Entertainment has been known for putting out (mostly) consistent content for years, and that includes forays into video games. Given that DC focuses a lot more on their solo characters, particularly Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, than Marvel does, its no wonder that DC has had an easier time adapting their IP's to other trans-media proprieties. While Marvel's team movie effort The Avengers has proven wildly successful, DC's Dark Knight trilogy, recent Man of Steel film and the entire animated universe helmed by DC animation veteran Bruce Timm has defined an era of superhero cartoons and direct-to-dvd animated features.
Man, DC Comics hasn't had great luck with games, has it? They had to resort to a few pretty average games to fill out the list.
The first day of 2013′s Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo (CCEE) has wrapped up, and boy do I have a lot of cosplay photos for you. It seems the likes of Nathan Fillion, Peter Dinklage, Carrie Fischer and Stan Lee draw in quite a few people–somewhere around the 50,000 mark–and quite a few of those people decided to dress up for your viewing pleasure.
I snapped pictures of hobbits, wizards, psychotic clowns, batmen, mechromancers and the one and only Homestar Runner. Personally, my favorite cosplay of the day was the Splicer I caught on my way out of the Expo. He was committed to being quite creepy. Oh, and all the Adventure Time cosplay was great, too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a good Princess Bubblegum and Marceline before.
Remember, this is just day one of three. The CCEE runs until Sunday, and I’ll be there tomorrow and Sunday amongst the masses looking for the best cosplay. Be sure to check back then.
- Lowell Bell
GamingOgre:
Sony’s PlayStation Plus program has been in effect for roughly two years now, and has given away a multitude of games, media, and services to PlayStation Plus subscribers since its inception. With the announcement that next month’s free game would be Rockstar’s legendary Red Dead Redemption, I decided to delve into my experiences with PlayStation Plus over the past six months, and give an overview about the games/services I’ve received. Being a particularly broke gamer, every purchase I make is based on the dollars-to-fun factor, so I’ll have a sentence listing the original retail price and whether or not it would have warranted a purchase.
