Tag: battle royale

Geekscape Comics: Marvel Goes ‘Battle Royale’ With ‘Avengers Arena’

by Shawn Madden

Remember that Survive teaser that we thought could possibly be an ongoing Marvel Zombies title? Well, it seems that Marvel is going Battle Royale with some of their characters in Avengers Arena. Is this a bad thing? Hell no. It means they’re finally starting to trim the fat and get rid of the useless characters that no one cares about. Well, and maybe a few that people do care about.

Writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Kev Walker are going to bring 16 young Marvel heroes together to “fight or die”. In this upcoming series we will see the psychotic Arcade take members of Avengers Academy, The Runaways and more, including Darkhawk who you can see among the group pictured below, to Murder Island. Be prepared because people are going to die.

Writer Dennis Hopeless on the title:

“We really got to cherry pick our cast. That was a lot of fun, almost as much fun as creating the brand new characters. I have a feeling the Braddock Academy kids in particular are going to break some hearts. Not sure if we made it clear yet, but people die in this book.”

Source: Marvel

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Enters Production

by Derek Kraneveldt

Lionsgate announced today that the sequel to this years mega-hit The Hunger Games has now entered production.

Filming started in Atlanta today and is expecting to run until December. Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants, I Am Legend, Constantine) is in the director’s chair, replacing Gary Ross from the first film.

From the press release:

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE will be released worldwide on November 22, 2013, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jeffrey Wright, with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland.

Said Lionsgate’s President of Production Eric Feig, who is overseeing the production on behalf of the studio, “We are so excited to be embarking on this adventure with Francis Lawrence, who has already exhibited immense creative vision and resourcefulness in casting the film and planning its look and feel. The stakes are raised in every way in this second story, and we are thrilled to get the production underway in these perfect locations, with our excellent returning cast and some world class actors in new roles.”

Looks like most of the cast from the first film is unsurprisingly returning, and we’ll see some new faces as well. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is set for release on November 22, 2013.

I’ve yet to see the first film, but have heard excellent things about it (conversely I’ve also heard it’s essentially a less violent Battle Royale). Did you like it? Are you looking forward to a sequel?

Raiden Will Be Making An Appearance In ‘PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale’

by Shane O'Hare

The great lads over at Gamespot were able to get a hands on demo of PSAS:BR when head designer Seth Killian hit their office. In this video we will get a nice little peak at Raiden’s moves. Take a look with me!

This also gives some more validity of the pics and character info that leaked not to long ago, we already know that Cole McGrath from inFamous (both good and evil version) will be in the game so the list of rumored characters has some weight. That list was compiled by Joystiq, and you can find that below.

  • Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry
  • Cole McGrath from the inFamous series
  • Ratchet from the Ratchet & Clank series
  • Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid series
  • Sackboy from the LittleBigPlanet games
  • Sir Daniel Fortesque from MediEvil
  • Heihachi Mishima from the Tekken series
  • Toro, PlayStation marketing icon in Japan
  • Nariko from Heavenly Sword
  • Jak from the Jak & Daxter series
  • Spike from the Ape Escape games

PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale will ship on November 20th and is available on Commodore 64 and all Amiga systems. You know I’m kidding, right?