Marvel has announced new Funko Pop figurines for seven of its superheroes will be available at New York Comic Con 2018
Comic Con attendees won’t be able to simply walk up to the booth and walk away with one of the new Funko figurines, though. Interested fans have to enter an online lottery by Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. PDT in order to gain access.
As seen in the gallery below, the seven new Marvel Funko figurines for Comic Con are:
One of the DC Extended Universe’s top writers is set to cross over to a Marvel Television project for ABC Studios.
Per Deadline, Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg has received a production commitment from ABC for an hourlong drama about female Marvel superheroes. The show is currently untitled, and the heroes the show will follow haven’t been revealed, but they’re reportedly lesser-known Marvel characters.
The project isn’t a total surprise, however, as Deadline reported in a separate story last month that ABC has been in the market for another Marvel series for some time. It would be the second show about female superheroes created by Marvel Television and ABC Studios after Netflix’s Jessica Jones.
Maroon 5 will be the Super Bowl halftime entertainment act for this season’s big game, according to a new report from Variety. No official announcement has come down as of yet, and the NFL said in a statement that rumour and speculation is par for the course.
“It’s a Super Bowl tradition to speculate about the performers for the Pepsi Halftime Show,” reads a line from the NFL’s statement. “We are continuing to work with [longtime sponsor] Pepsi on our plans but do not have any announcements to make on what will be another epic show.”
Maroon 5 is the kind of safe, crowd-pleasing pick that you might expect. Their latest hit, “Girls Like You” featuring Cardi B, is one of the most popular songs on planet Earth right now, while the band’s older cuts like “This Love” And “She Will Be Loved” are recognisable and palatable to the wide audience that the Super Bowl attracts.
Super Bowl LIII takes place on February 3 in Atlanta, Georgia. Maroon 5’s touring schedule is free for multiple weeks on both sides, so it appears availability is not an issue.
Rapper Jay-Z reportedly turned down the opportunity to perform at Super Bowl LIII. Jay-Z pretty much confirmed this in his verse of the song “Apeshit,” where he sings, “I said no to the Super Bowl: you need me, I don’t need you.”
Some of the biggest names in music and entertainment have performed at Super Bowl halftime shows over the years, including Katy Perry, Beyonce, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, and Bruce Springsteen just to name a few.
DC’s new line of comics for mature readers, DC Black Label, made its debut with Batman: Damned #1 by writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo. Social media conversation around the title has been squarely focused on how it shows Batman’s penis for the first time in the Caped Crusader’s publishing history. DC apparently anticipated this and decided to remove the imagery of his penis from the digital release, as evidenced by that version having altered artwork that covers Bruce Wayne’s privates with shadow.
A source close to the project told IGN that DC chose to alter the art because it wasn’t additive to the story. The first print run currently on sale in shops still features the unaltered art, but all future printings of Batman: Damned will reflect the altered artwork, the source also said.
With the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man, Insomniac Games has proven that it was the right studio for the job. And you can tell as you play it: Insomniac displays an intimate understanding of the character through the story, as well as the combat and web-slinging mechanics. It’s not often that a studio gets a superhero game right, but when it does, it’s fantasy wish-fulfilment of the highest order.
But all of this joy for Spider-Man has us eager for the next big game that’ll do justice to another iconic comic book superhero. Marvel Games has acknowledged several times in the past that it’s always looking for new studios to partner with to adapt its properties into games, and with the success of Spider-Man, it’s probably looking to do more. And we’re sure the owners of other big superhero properties are likely doing the same.
Naturally, this has us thinking about all the superhero games that we want and the studios we’d love to make them. After all, there are hundreds of comic book characters out there who deserve games, but have yet to get one that does them justice.
We’ve compiled our ideas, and we’ll admit that the folks in our office have a bit of a bias towards Marvel, but you’ll find a few surprise concepts based on obscure superheroes as you click ahead.
In the meantime, which game studio would you put in charge of your favorite superhero? Let us know in the comments below!
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UPDATE: Walmart, Amazon, GameStop and Best Buy all have preorders available.
Sony dropped a bombshell on an unsuspecting internet last night, announcing the PlayStation Classic mini console is coming to stores December 3. The PlayStation Classic costs $99, has 20 games, 2 controllers, and includes an HDMI cable and USB cable, as well as an instruction manual that’s almost a work of art in its industrial simplicity.
Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin wishes he had been done with the upcoming novel Winds of Winter years ago.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, in which Martin was asked about the status of his upcoming book, Martin said, “I’m working on
, and I wish I’d been done four years ago, but I’m slow and the book is very complex.”
The author has apparently also stopped making visits to the set of the HBO series because, although “going to set is a lot of fun,” Martin says, “there’s nothing for me to do there, so I thought I better stay home.” He continued, “I still have two books to write.”
The mysterious purple cube in Fortnite has finally stopped moving. It ended up falling into Loot Lake and melting. No one really knows why or what any of it means.
It’s anyone’s guess as to what’s actually happening in Fortnite right now. Weeks ago, a giant purple rift in the sky started shooting out lightning and destroying cacti. The final strike left behind a massive purple cube in the middle of the desert. Covered in strange glowing symbols, the cube reacted differently depending on how players interacted with it.
A few weeks after that, the cube suddenly began moving on its own and rolling across the map. It finally ended up splashing into Loot Lake, where it promptly melted and filled the once pristine water with a mysterious purple goo. As you might imagine, this chain of events has both excited and perplexed Fortnite’s players, who’ve taken to Twitter to discuss the latest developments.
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Michael Anderson (@nminus1) immediately wanted to know what the new name for the lake should be. Loot Lake just doesn’t seem to do the body of water justice anymore.
We’re thinking Purple Pool or Leaping Lagoon. Why Leaping Lagoon? Because–as Martita (@MartitaaCano) discovered–the cube has made the entire body of water into a giant trampoline.
Jumping on the pool of water is more than just fun. @Bigus_Daddius discovered that bouncing on the lake while in the shopping cart can net you some seriously large rewards.
Whatever happens next, it seems like the cube is on its last legs before disappearing for good. Goodbye Fortnite cube. We’ll miss you.
RIP Kevin the Cube
2018 – 2018
Gone but not forgo- hey look you can bounce on the lake!#fortnite— Landon Rowell (@landon_bandman) September 19, 2018
If you want to see the new lake yourself, just jump into a round of battle royale in Fortnite. The game is available on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
The saga of the mysterious cube in Fortnite: Battle Royale continues. After destroying a newer building in Tilted Towers, the cube–as fans predicted–has made its way to Loot Lake.
As shown in the video below from YouTube user Laytxn, the slow march of the cube saw its next roll send it into the lake. It begins to emanate a sort of purple shroud into the nearby water, and after a brief moment where it seems as if it may float, it instead slowly sinks (or melts). As this happens, Loot Lake begins to turn purple, and it now has the same bounce properties the cube itself did. The slow descent of the cube–perhaps the last time we’ll see it–is capped off with some ominous music but no Terminator-style thumbs up, which just seems rude after all the time we’ve spent following it.
So what’s next? Players have theorized where things might be headed, and it seems clear that the cube is somehow tied to the incoming Season 6. As of yet, though, it’s unclear what will definitely happen. This pre-Season 6 rollout has been slower than that of Seasons 4 and 5, where it was clear that the comet would crash and anachronistic objects and areas would come through the rift, respectively.
We’ll of course continue to monitor what’s next and report back with any further developments. It seems as if Epic plans to continue evolving the island map, rather than introducing a new one, but it’s always possible it will throw a curveball and surprise everyone.
Season 5 officially ends on September 25. If Epic holds to the same release pattern as it has in the past, Season 6’s start date could come immediately after that.
As many fans expected, Fortnite‘s mysterious cube has entered Loot Lake. You can watch what happens above, but the cube either melts or sinks into the water, turning the entire lake purple. Just as notably, it also gave the water the same properties the cube had, bouncing players into the air. All of this appears to be a setup for Season 6, which may start as soon as next week. Epic has not yet announced a start date, but Season 5 ends on September 25, which may be when we see the next big evolution of the game. For now, enjoy having a giant, bouncy lake to check out.