Sad news out of Pennsylvania this morning, Ryan Dunn, one of the more adventurous members of the Jackass team, died in a car crash earlier this morning. April Margera, mother of Dunn’s Jackass co-star, Bam Margera, confirmed the death this morning on the Preston & Steve radio show and in an interview with celebrity news outlet TMZ. The accident...
Wizard World Philadelphia 2011 has finally come to a close. Over the next three days, I’ll be bringing you write-ups of some of the weekend’s hottest panels. This article is going to focus on the Sunday Q & A panel that featured Clare Kramer and Mercedes McNab, two lovely actresses best known from their work in the Buffy-verse. Before we dive...
In the wake of E3, controversy struck the gaming industry. But it isn’t all bad news in this week’s Gamer Pulse – the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and its developer, Kojima Productions, are expanding their horizons in a big way. Duke Nukem Forever was finally unleashed upon the world as well. The most important thing to take out of this week is...
Well, E3 2011 is officially over. Sony has cheap 3D monitors coming your way, Microsoft really wants you to buy a Kinect, and Nintendo has a new system on the way. But E3 isn’t just about fancy press conferences, it’s about developers being able to demo their latest creations to a bunch of gamers and journalists. With that being said, this...
Let’s be honest, the deck was stacked for Nintendo. After poor showings from Microsoft and Sony, the last member of the Big Three had all eyes focusing on their press conference. Under that kind of pressure, a lesser company would have cracked; however, Nintendo is no ordinary gaming company. The company most definitely out-performed their rivals, and with...
Microsoft kicked off E3 2011 with a pretty lackluster press conference, which seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition. They spent a lot of time talking about Kinect (and getting others to come on stage and do the same) without really offering much for the non-Kinect crowd. Below is a summary of what Microsoft did with their stage time. - The conference opened...
I probably don’t need to tell you that E3 2011 will take place next week. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) is the biggest gaming convention on the planet. Publishers and developers create lavish presentations to demonstrate their product slate for the upcoming year. Comic Booked is going to be exploding...
Leave it to Activision-Blizzard to figure out a way to further milk the Call of Duty franchise. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the arrival of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will herald a new age of online gaming – but for all the wrong reasons. This fall, when players boot up the next installment in the mind-numbingly popular shooter, they will...
Well, imagine that – we’re all still here (except Randy Savage, I guess). Since we here at Comic Booked weren’t worthy of being vacuumed up into the sky, we’re delighted to bring you another exciting installment of Gamer Pulse, our weekly gaming news feature! As always, the industry was ablaze with news this week: this fall’s two...
The comparisons between Heavy Rain and L.A. Noire were bound to be drawn – while each does definitely have a unique spin on the detective/mystery genre, it’s impossible to ignore the similarities. Well, now that I’ve had a chance to really dig into L.A. Noire, I feel confident enough to stack up these titles against each other and investigate...
It’s Friday and we here at Gamer Pulse are celebrating our latest exciting installment! This was another big week for the gaming industry – the week started off with the return of the PSN (coming soon to a Japan near you!) and a leak of some Modern Warfare 3 information. After that, the news kept rolling in. Missed any of the big news from the week?...
While the Comic Booked Video Games team was out living life this weekend (or, in my case, watching two seasons worth of 30 Rock), the video game industry was positively ablaze with information. With plenty of little announcements, which we’ll touch on in this week’s Gamer Pulse, the weekend was dominated by two major announcements: the return of the...
Every week, the Comic Booked video games team frantically scours the Internet for any and all important gaming news and compiles it in one place for you, the reader. Aren’t we such swell people? This is Gamer Pulse, your weekly, one-stop shop for all the biggest gaming news. The industry was ablaze this week: the PSN downtime continues, the Spring gaming...
Stay awhile and listen: the return to Sanctuary is officially inbound! During Monday’s Activision Blizzard Q1 Financial Results conference call, Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime confirmed that a Diablo III beta is on its way to gamers, with a Q3 2011 arrival being targeted. Morhaime confirmed that “internal testing” (alpha testing) has...
