The weekend is almost here! What geeky things are you all doing? While you wait for the weekday to end and the weekend to begin, here’s some comic related news and reviews from around the web to start the day.
ICv2 – Gamescom Adds Tabletop Games – An interesting move.
Reviews
The Beat – Dahlia in the Dark Vol. 1
The Beat – Minami’s Lover
Atomic Junk Shop – Noir Burlesque
CBR – Titans: Beast World Tour – Gotham
Revealed at Gamescom, XCOM developer Firaxis will release Marvel’s Midnight Suns, a new take on the dark side of the Marvel Universe. The tactical RPG will feature characters like Ghost Rider, Blade, and Magik, as they face off against Lilith, the Mother of Demons.
Midnight Suns takes its inspiration from the comic event “Rise of the Midnight Sons” which was released in 1992. The story focuses on Lilith who awakens and regains her power after being defeated by Atlantean sorcerers thousands of years ago. Doctor Strange assembles a team of heroes to stop her. The story was during a time when Marvel was pushing its “occult” side of its characters.
The video game tells the story of Lilith and her child, the Hunter. The Hunter is a customizable original hero and serve as the central character in the game. The game will mix XCOM-like tactical RPG missions and dialogue-driven relationship building between Hunter and Marvel heroes.
The game features 12 playable characters and featured in the trailer are are Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Blade, Ghost Rider, Magik, Doctor Strange, and Nico Minoru.
Midnight Suns is expected to releases in March 2022 for Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Game Store.
Starbreeze, Skybound Entertainment, and 505 Games have announced that OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is now expected to launch on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One on Feb. 6, 2019, in the Americas and Feb. 8, 2019, in Europe and other territories. The game is still expected to release on Windows PC on Nov. 6, 2018, in the Americas and Nov. 8, 2018, in Europe and the rest of the world.
OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is playable to the public at gamescom this week with an all-new level called Underpass that shows off some of the game’s darkest corners. Visitors can get a taste of the action in Hall 9 of the ESL Arena. You can also check out a special gamescom message to fans from developer OVERKILL – A Starbreeze Studio.
Inspired by Robert Kirkman’s original graphic novels, OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is a four-player co-op multiplayer shooter in which players must band together on a variety of missions and raids to find survivors, secure supplies and stay alive. Use stealth to evade enemies tactically, or dismember walkers limb from limb with brute force and firepower. Each of the game’s four playable characters has their own special abilities, skill trees, squad roles, play styles and background stories.
Today at Gamescom, it was revealed that LEGO Dimensions will include Adventure Worlds that are new open-world environments for players to explore. This is separate from the game’s main story. Every character in LEGO Dimensions, including the three Starter Pack characters and any Expansion Pack character, has the ability to unlock the corresponding Adventure World of same brand. Players will also immediately have access to three worlds based on DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, and The LEGO Movie.
A new trailer givings us a first look at the Adventure Worlds was released and you can check that out above.
Also revealed today, a Ghostbusters Level Pack with a LEGO Peter Venkman minifigure and Ghostbusters Fun Packs with LEGO Stay Puft and LEGO Slimer minifigures.
There’ll be three releases which you can check out below.
Ghostbusters Fun Pack 1
Ghostbusters Fun Pack 2
Ghostbusters Level Pack
And some gameplay screenshots.
Launching September 27, 2015, LEGO Dimensions will be available for Xbox One, the all-in one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation4 and PlayStation3 computer entertainment systems and the Wii U system from Nintendo.
