Batman Battles Zombies and His Own Father(?!) in May
Both Marvel and DC have released their solicitations for May 2019. This summer looks to be a huge one for the comic book industry, what with both publishers using Free Comic Book Day to tease major villain-centric stories and debuting several other major projects over the course of the month. Those projects include everything from the Conan-heavy Savage Avengers to the zombie-themed DCeased to what may be the final Batman epic from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.
Scroll down to see all the major comics debuting from Marvel and DC in May 2019.
Villains Rise for Free Comic Book Day
FCBD: Amazing Spider-Man cover by Ryan Stegman. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)
DC Universe’s Titans Casts its Superboy
Warner Bros. Television announced Wednesday that Joshua Orpin has officially been cast as Connor Kent, also known as Superboy, in the second season of DC Universe's Titans.
Orpin will be a series regular for the upcoming season. He is known for his role in the feature film, The Neon Spectrum, along with shorts and having numerous stage credits.
Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of Titans:
Superboy is described as an "angsty teenager of steel," who is looking for the truth about his past. While on his own journey, he ends up smashing into the Titans' world and finds a new home, along with surprising information that bring forth issues he wasn't expecting.
Why We Should Expect Multiple Timelines in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings
Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel series may be at least a year from its debut, but the company has begun quietly teasing this highly ambitious, highly expensive project. A series of tweets from the official "The Lord of the Rings on Prime" Twitter account has been offering clues as to when the show might take place and what pieces of J.R.R. Tolkien's lore the series will focus on, and the newest teaser confirms Amazon's adaptation will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
Netflix’s The OA: Part 2 Release Date and Trailer Revealed
Netflix announced that The OA: Part 2 will be coming to the streaming platform on March 22, along with debuting Part 2's trailer, which answers one of the biggest questions from the first series.
SPOILER WARNING for season one follows:
The mystery thriller aired in 2016 and left viewers wondering whether Prairie/the OA's (Brit Marling) story about opening a portal to another dimension through the power of interpretive dance, was a miraculous phenomenon that we had to abandon reason to believe, or whether she was just a bit crazy.
After being shot at in the end of the Season 1 in the process of stopping a school shooter with her fellow dancers, Prairie was whisked away in an ambulance, leaving an ambiguous ending in her wake.
Developers Talk About Unionizing the Games Industry
In Episode 7 of Humans Who Make Games podcast, host Adam Conover talks with two game developers and advocates from Game Workers Unite. For the purpose of privacy because both people still work in the industry, Humans Who Make Games has changed their names to Emma and Steve to keep them anonymous.
Listen to Humans Who Make Games Episode 7.
Emma and Steve chat about what it's like to work in extreme overtime, gender equality and the challenges of unionizing in the games industry, and how God of War was reportedly a 5-year crunch game.
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PS Plus March Games Include Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witness
Sony has revealed the March 2019 games coming to PlayStation Plus members, featuring Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, the updated first-person shooter Modern Warfare Remastered can be played in 4K on PS4 Pro. The Witness, a first-person puzzle game set on a mysterious island, was made by Braid creator Jonathan Blow. Both games will be available to download from March 5 - April 1, 2019.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness are your free PlayStation Plus games for March! New lineup arrives Tuesday, March 5: https://t.co/6M4yBfi3xo pic.twitter.com/0ViM6bMnfT
Halo 4 Originally Pitched As Xbox One Launch Title
Halo 4, which launched on Xbox 360 in November 2012, was originally pitched as a launch title for Xbox One. In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered (see the full episode below), Ryan McCaffrey sat down with Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries, and discussed the history (and alternate histories) of the Halo franchise.
When Ross originally pitched Halo 4, it was set to be a launch title for Xbox One, but when it was decided the game would launch as an "end of life-cycle" Xbox 360 title, a new plan was formed. Halo games take a minimum of three years to build, according to Ross, and moving Halo 4 away from the Xbox One release window created a gap in the launch portfolio of the new console.
SteamWorld Quest Is a Card Game RPG as Fiendish as It Is Lovely
There’s something inherently likeable about the SteamWorld series. Its hand-drawn sprites, or sheer commitment to cheeriness or unerring focus on a single, tight, mechanical design stretched to game length – one or all of these will tug a smile from players’ cold hearts eventually, no matter the game. The side-effect is that the whole SteamWorld brand has given developer Image & Form the enviable opportunity to consistently try new things, while still attracting a captive audience.
2013’s breakout Steamworld Dig, don’t forget, was the second game to bear the moniker, swapping the DSiWare original’s Tower Defence for procedurally generated platforming. Then we got Heist, which somehow wrestled the XCOM model into two dimensions, and added a weird fascination with collectible hats. Even Dig 2, the series’ first full sequel, made major changes, swapping those procedural maps for a meticulously designed experience, now prizing skilled play over the original’s material grinding.
Exclusive: Alien: Isolation Digital Series to Debut on IGN
It’s been fifteen years since Amanda Ripley’s mother disappeared aboard the deep space towing ship Nostromo. And for fifteen years, Amanda has suspected there was more to her mother’s story than meets the eye.
That's the story of Alien: Isolation, and for those who didn't play the 2014 game, 20th Century Fox is expanding the tale of Amanda Ripley in an exciting new way. As you can see in our exclusive trailer debut, IGN will be exclusively debuting Fox's first-of-its-kind digital series of Alien: Isolation on Thursday, February 28th -- and you can binge all seven episodes of it when the series drops on IGN.com at 9 a.m. PT.
This new digital series takes the cutscenes from Alien: Isolation and not so much as expands on them but creates a new animation experience to add additionally layers to the story of Ellen Ripley's daughter. The goal was to offer new depth to a story that many gamers would have already experienced in 2014's release, and also tell the story in a newly accessible way for those who haven't.