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Orders For Terraria Graphic Novels Are Open Now!

One of our favorite games, Terraria, now has a graphic novel series and orders are open now! You can begin ordering them at 50 Amp Productions website. You can order the first one here: https://www.50ampproductions.com/collections/comic-issue-01 You may notice that there are tiers. You can get the graphic novel itself for pretty much $5 or you can spend $50 and get a whole bunch of goodies!

Here's a good tidbit from the news report: "Overall, the plan is to roll out Issues 1-4 (Book One) over the next few months, followed by a full Book One release to book sellers/retailers as well as available online some time in Q1 2023. Book One will contain all of the first four issues along with a few other goodies (still TBD, but think concept art and other "making of" work, stuff like that). All orders can be placed on the 50 Amp Productions Website - click the cover above to check it out!" You can find more details here: https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-graphic-novel-book-one-issue-one-orders-now-open.114075/

Speaking of Terraria news, I've been aware of the "Labor of Love Update" and I want to make sure our community is, too. It seems to be nearing completion. ChippyGaming has described some of the new features and changes as being "game changing." He's really good at being up to date with Terraria news. You can check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChippyGaming

News of the update is often seen in the "State of the Game" posts. You can see the latest one for July here: https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-state-of-the-game-july-2022.113499/

Are you interested in the graphic novel series? I am, but I think I'd like to wait to get "Book One." What do you think about all this? Are you planning to pick this up? Also, have you been keeping up w/ the Labor of Love news? Are you going to jump back in the game to check it out?

Tactics Ogre Gets Reborn on November 11th

I just found this piece of news, which I fell in love with once I saw the YouTube video (embedded). I haven’t played any Tactics Ogre game, but I believe they are popular. According to the article, “Tactics Ogre: Reborn is based on 2011's Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together on the PSP, which itself was a port of the original 1995 release for Super Nintendo.” If you know more about these games, please feel free to let me know what you think of them!

The reason I fell in love with the video was because it looks just like the Final Fantasy Tactics games I’ve loved so very much. I got introduced to Final Fantasy in college (I will forever love FF8 the most). FF Tactics was something I really enjoyed on the Playstation. I got FF Tactics Advance when it came out along with my first Gameboy Advance SP. Later, I got to play FFTA2 and what came to the PSP. I really loved those games, so I don’t think I can pass up the chance to play this new similar game in November.

Let me know if you’re interested in this! Are you familiar with the games I’ve mentioned? Are you planning to pick this up? I’ve already added it to my wish list and I think I’ll get at release.

Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/tactics-ogre-reborn-officially-revealed-by-square-enix-coming-november-11/1100-6506152/

Pre-order Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered by Aug 12 for Bonuses

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is available for pre-order on Steam. Pre-order and get bonuses including, “the Iron Spider Suit, Velocity Suit, Spider-Punk Suit, Spider-Drone Gadget, and 5 additional skill points.”

I don’t know much about this game and one of my purposes for this post is that I hope to get some feedback by people who’ve played it. So, please chime in if you have! I believe it’s popular and am looking forward to it.

I seem to be aware of a Miles Morales DLC or something, which also has me excited. I really like Miles, although all I know about him is from the Spider-Verse animated movie. I’m looking forward to seeing him in the next Spider-Verse movie and wish he’d come to to the live-action MCU. I love that he got mentioned in a Spider-Man Homecoming deleted scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JK94pbx8c). I also love how Electro said something like, “there’s gotta be a black Spider-Man out there some where.”

The embedded video mentions that it’s made by Insomniac, the same company that gave us those really great Batman games, so I think this is exciting! I recommend watching the video, of course.

Let me know what you think about this! Have you played it before? What would you like to say about it? Are you going to get this?

News source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvels-spider-man-remastered-for-pc-gets-big-preorder-discount/1100-6505889/

Travis Admin wrote on 07/29/2022 at 06:14pm

If you haven’t played this yet, this is the perfect opportunity. It’s one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in ages.

Insomniac is a Sony owned studio, they did the Ratchet and Clank games and the Resistance series, Rocksteady are the folks who did the Batman games. But don’t let that turn you off from it, the gameplay is better in Spidey than in the Arkham games.

The Miles Morales content is its own game, but it’s a shorter game. It perhaps should have been DLC but it’s also a blast. Miles has a different set of powers that make it a unique experience.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 07/29/2022 at 06:56pm

Thanks Travis!!!!!!!

Hm, maybe I was confused by the video. I'm pretty sure I've seen another Insomniac game. The video did at least mention that it's like those Batman games, combat at least.

Thanks for clearing up about Miles in the game. According to another article, he's coming in the Fall. https://www.nme.com/guides/gaming-guides/spider-man-pc-release-date-miles-morales-trailer-3242475

I'm gonna go pre-order now. Thanks!

Travis Admin wrote on 07/30/2022 at 04:56pm

Yeah I honestly thought it was the same team for a while because the combat was similar, just more refined.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 08/12/2022 at 08:11pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKF7eLGCCMg (classic Spider-Man theme song) This is a cool game! I've put in 2 hours ATM. I noticed some FPS issues much closer to the beginning when the city was loading. It was very brief and pretty much only during one time.

Since EVGA is having a Back-to-School sale and I can get 1/3 off, I've ordered a RTX 2070 XC 12G. It dipped in to affordability for me. I've had a GTX 1660 Ti XC Gaming 6GB for 3 years now. I got it then for just over $300 on Amazon and watched it's price double over the years. It's not on sale now, but is still about as much as I paid for it 3 years ago. The RTX is slightly cheaper on sale. I've seen some numbers, but I'm not sure how much better my performance is going to be. At least I'll finally have access to those neat RTX features. I definitely expect a performance increase and I'm hoping for more stability in Ark, but I don't expect a big world of difference (it isn't a 3080 TI after all).

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Coming November 11

We'll get to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in November, making it the next MCU movie. I've seen this trailer three times now and I think it's pretty emotional, keeping the loss of Chadwick Boseman in mind. It appears Wakanda is in mourning, too, but there's also a war brewing with Namor. He's butted heads with Wakanda before, although he's considered more of an "anti-hero."

Let me know what you think about this! Are you going to go see it, too?

I Am Groot on Disney+ Aug 10

Comic-con is going on this weekend, so you can probably expect to see many more announcements like this one.

I Am Groot is another MCU show coming to Disney+ on Aug. 10th. It's just 5 shorts and all will be released at the same time. It looks funny, but that's just how the character of Groot is (IMO and along w/ the other GotG). James Gunn said that's it's kind of in it's own canon, or when it comes to canon, don't worry about it.

What do you think? Is this something you're interested in?

House of the Dragon Premieres Aug 21 on HBO Max

There's an awesome trailer for House of the Dragon and I wanted to share it with you. The show premieres on HBO Max on Aug. 21st and I'm very much looking forward to it. It's a Game of Thrones prequel, set 200 years before. It has Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen and a few others I seem to recognize. There are dragons, too!

I read the Song of and Ice saga books that are out now, but it's been a while. I really enjoyed the GoT show we got years ago, although I think like many, I was disappointed by the end. I still very much enjoyed the show.

Are you interested in this? Let me know!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 07/22/2022 at 04:18pm

I'll definitely be checking the show out! I too have read the Song of Ice and Fire books (and am annoyed that they're not finished lol), and highly enjoyed the original GoT series, so I'm sure I'll enjoy this new show.

These days I'm trying to avoid trailers and breakdowns, as I've found going into shows and movies blind(ish) increases my enjoyment. I used to love New Rockstars-type speculation videos, but those always seemed to set my expectations too high, or guess the general storyline of shows/movies. I watched the very first trailer for the show, but now I'm ignoring them lol.

I appriciate you posting this, so I at least know when the show will start!

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 07/22/2022 at 06:25pm

Awesome! I really loved reading the books, although it was so long ago I can't remember them well enough. I was always impressed by their 1,000 pages! My cousin was the one who introduced me to it. He gave me the books as a gift. I let someone borrow the first and never got it back, though.

I loved the New Rockstars trailer breakdown for this! I feel like NR is a companion. I see it as fun and awesome, a way to expand my knowledge about the shows and movies I really love. It really feeds my Marvel/Star Was obsession, which just grows. But, I also understand your perspective. I have gotten disappointed by the fact that some trailers pretty much just show the entire movie.

I'm glad you appreciate that I posted this. I just figured this was something our community would probably be into.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/29/2022 at 04:30am

I’ve been reading the first Game of Thrones and it’s incredible. I’m nearly done and am wondering how I’ll watch the show? Thinking of reading the book first then see the season of the show afterward.

The books are huge but so good!

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 07/29/2022 at 06:20am

Geez it's been ages since I've read those! I've forgotten a lot of it like how House of the Dragon fits in. It's sad how the show didn't quite reflect the books, but that's not uncommon.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is Radical!

GregoPeck gives this an astounding "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

GregoPeck gives this a "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge does a great job of capturing the essence of the TMNT arcade game from 1990, which later came to the NES. At the time there was already a TMNT game on the NES, so this was given the title of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game.” It allowed up to four players to take on the Foot Clan as each of the TMNT. You can check out the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(arcade_game) It also very much reminds me of the Simpsons arcade game, which was popular.

This version allows up to six players online and offline. If you’re playing on Steam, you’ll have the chance to link to your Epic Games account. I haven’t played multiplayer yet, but it seems like a great game to play with both family and friends.

I think those of us who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s as TMNT fans will get the most out of this. I don’t know how someone who grew up outside of that time will see the game. I’ve enjoyed it although I wish it was longer. The game only has 16 levels and my average time of completing each one seems to be about 6 minutes.

One of my favorite things in many of these similar classic video games is breakable environments. This game has them. There are many boxes and parts of the environment you can break which will sometimes hide things like pizza that restores your health or a variety of other helpful items. Sometimes you’ll also uncover a “cameo.” These are characters such as Irma, Vernon, and others. They’ll have a quest which is that they’re looking for certain items hidden throughout the levels in these breakable things. Irma, for instance, is looking for pieces of her diary. Completing one of these quests will give the power points

Power points are like experience points used to increase your power level. Doing so increases your health and Ninja Power Gauge. As for the latter, it will increase as you attack enemies. Once it reaches a certain point, you can use it for a special move ("Y" by default for XBox One controller). With this special move, you can attack many enemies all around you at once. You can also use it in other forms.

There are levels to the Ninja Power Gauge. You reach a new level of this by not using it when it fills up. So, once you fill up one, the next starts filling up. Once you reach three, you can activate Radical Mode. Once activated, it gives you a damage boost, but it drains the Ninja Power Gauge. It’s great to use against bosses.

There are some achievements, which you can see and keep track of in-game. Some of them have to do with seeing every story ending and finding all cameos. I’ve only played through the game with Leo and Don. Pro tip: If you don’t skip the very end cut scene, you can see what your character is up to after the story is over.

The world map reminds me a lot of the first TMNT NES game. It’s been so long since I’ve played it. It’s the same kind of map you see in Mario games.

I’ve seen that there may be more content coming.

If you were a TMNT fan growing up like me, you’ll probably love and appreciate this as much as I do or more. If you have kids, this is a great game to play with them and introduce them to your era of gaming.

Let me know what you think about this! Did you enjoy the original TMNT arcade game?

Marvel’s Midnight Suns Coming 10/7/22 (Now delayed to 3/23)

The quick news
Here are two extra trailers to check out:

“Master of Puppets” trailer: https://youtu.be/WVZTsTXO3Nk
“Official Gameplay Reveal” with a March release date: https://youtu.be/8eeGFDDU3Hg

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is coming 10/7/22 and the embedded trailer is awesome! The embedded one has a nice cover of “Enter Sandman” in it. Playable characters include Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Venom, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Blade, Ghost Rider, Magik, and Nico Minoru. The Wikipedia entry calls the game a “tactical” RPG. “Combat will be turn-based similar to Firaxis Games' XCOM series,” according to the entry.

The Midnight Sons
The game appears to actually be a play on words, since many of these characters are from the Midnight Sons. Moon Knight star Oscaar Isaac mentioned the group in an article about the show (see: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/moon-knight-star-oscar-isaac-teases-midnight-sons-mcu.html/). Here’s a helpful piece from it:

“In Marvel Comics, the Midnight Sons are like the Avengers, but the team consists of supernatural heroes, including Moon Knight. Other group members include Ghost Rider, Punisher, Blade, Werewolf by Night, Doctor Strange, Morbius, Iron Fist, Black Cat, and more.”

Wikipedia (linked below) has a different list, “including Hellstrom, Jennifer Kale, Morbius, Werewolf by Night, Doctor Strange, and Ghost Riders Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze.”

A key phrase is “supernatural heroes.” This is one of the many groups of heroes that the MCU seems to be getting into. There are currently Blade movies portrayed by Wesley Snipes. A Blade movie for the MCU is coming and he’ll be portrayed by Mahershala Ali. You heard him if you saw the Dane Whitman post-credits scene for The Eternals.

It’s interesting that Mahershala Ali portrayed Cottonmouth in Luke Cage (remember?). He isn’t the first actor to portray at least two characters even within the MCU. You can check out a cool list of 10 others here: https://screenrant.com/mcu-actors-previously-starred-other-marvel-movies-chris-evans-jon-favreau/

Even though Sony owns Spider Man, Venom, and Morbius they still have to work very closely with Marvel (and accept a cut to give to Marvel). The multiverse got broken in Loki’s season one and characters have been able to travel to other universes. Recent Sony movies have show this happening. Venom left something behind some “goo” in the MCU during Venom 2’s post-credits scene. What happened in the Mobius post-credits scene is still confusing. We’ve also seen this occur during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

The reason I’m even just slightly aware of the Midnight Sons, is because MT has mentioned them multiple times in New Rockstars videos (NR channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NewRockstars/videos). I’ve been obsessively following this channel for probably a couple of years now. They’ve really fed the Hellstrom fire of my Marvel obsession (see what I did there?). Just like I do for Gmail and Cheerful Ghost, I keep an open tab for them that I refresh daily multiple times, so I don’t miss a video (unless it’s something I’m not interested which isn’t too often actually).

What do you think about this? Are you interested? Are you a New Rockstars fan? Let me know!

Marvel’s Midnight Suns on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel%27s_Midnight_Suns

Midnight Sons on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Sons

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 06/13/2022 at 06:07pm

Thanks for sharing this Greg! It was not on my radar. I got a preorder in, as I am trying to collect all Marvel games. Looks interesting!

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 06/13/2022 at 06:24pm

You're welcome! I think I found out about it when I was looking up info for the Midnight Sons, which MT mentioned during Moon Knight. I pretty much overlooked the game then still, but I recently got on Steam and saw the game in the news window (the small external one telling you something's on sale or out now). I'm definitely interested in learning more. I'm not sure I'm into the combat. It reminds me of a Kingdom Hearts game I think, so I think I could perhaps adapt and enjoy it. I can't get enough of seeing Marvel characters anyway and this one is packed full of them, especially some of my favorites (Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider,...). I could watch these trailers all day.

What Marvel games do you recommend? Did you play Marvel's Avengers? It gave me my intro to Kamala Khan and Kate Bishop and fell in love with both. I'd only play as Ms. Marvel. I haven't checked out the new Spider-Man addition. Have you played Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy? I haven't yet.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 06/13/2022 at 07:26pm

The most recent one that I played are both of the Sony Spider-Man games. They are so good!

I have Avengers and Guardians on my backlog. Maybe after I finish Everspace (not a marvel title), I will pick one of those up.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 06/13/2022 at 08:57pm

Oh, you reminded me! Those games are coming to PC soon! I'll finally be able to get to check them out!

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 07/20/2022 at 06:09pm

Here's an "All we know" article about Midnight Suns: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvels-midnight-suns-everything-we-know-about-firaxis-tactical-superhero-rpg/1100-6499175/

If you visit the bottom of the official website, you can sign up for the 2K newsletter and get a free Blade skin: https://midnightsuns.2k.com/

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 08/09/2022 at 05:03am

Well, game's delayed to March 2023. I'm disappointed, because I was looking forward to this as my October game. I love how it all looks, but I need to see some game play so I can see how this actually works. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvels-midnight-suns-delayed-again-current-gen-releasing-before-the-end-of-march-2023/1100-6506252/

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Grab Your Free Permanent Copy of Ark: Survival Evolved On Steam Before June 19 at 10AM PDT

Go grab Ark: Survival Evolved for free on Steam before June 19 at 10AM PDT. Studio Wildcard just released a free new map to the game and also made some announcements on the official website (see link below). The embedded trailer contains the map's announcement, but there are other videos on the YouTube channel that also provide info about it and the new exclusive creatures to the map.

I haven't gotten into the game yet and I don't want to get into details. I just want this to be a quick announcement. If you're interested in reading about the new map, Ark 2 (next year) and the Animated Series (which has a full cast of very well known actors), check the link below.

Get the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/

Official news source: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/redefining-the-survival-genre-with-ark-2-and-an-update-from-our-studio-founders-r1949/

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/13/2022 at 12:13am

Thanks Greg, got it.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 06/13/2022 at 12:58am

You're welcome! There are many official free maps to go along with it. Almost all of them include at least one exclusive or exclusive-at-the-time creature. For instance, one of my favorites is Ark's beautiful version of Deinonychus on Valguero. You can see it here: https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Deinonychus
Usually the free maps were released months after a paid DLC and often include things from that DLC.

I strongly recommend looking at mods, at least eventually. Most of my 3,500+ hours would have been extremely boring w/out mods.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/13/2022 at 04:18am

> You're welcome! There are many official free maps to go along with it.

I'll check that out. In fact, I'll download it on my PC now.

jdodson Admin wrote on 06/13/2022 at 04:22am

ARK REQUIRES 125 GIGS? Wow, not quite ready for that kind of commitment yet but soon...

Wow.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 06/13/2022 at 07:40am

Wow, really?! BTW, you have to dl the new map separately, by finding it in the DLC part of the store page. It's about 30GB. I'm not sure I've ever paid attention to how much Ark requires or uses. I've always had it installed. I also keep my saved data backed up on a HDD. When I saw that Borderlands 3 required 100GB, I wasn't too happy about that. I have it installed, but still unplayed.

As for the new map, I'm actually really impressed that I was able to find a high level Pteranodon, Ankylosaurs, and Doedicurus near where I spawned. I was attacked by raptors, but they started running away after I punched them enough. I haven't died yet. Metal was easy to find and it's where I found my three new tames (145 or 150, perfection).

Now I've got my base built and sealed. I may have to add more walls, because I'm next to a slope and carnivores keep coming down it. I've already killed more than a few Alpha Raptors in the area. I did see the new bat, it was outside fighting w/ an Argy and a Snow Owl.

GregoPeck Super Member Post Author wrote on 06/13/2022 at 08:34am

My own Ark directory under Steam is almost 450GB, but I have a character on every map (AFAIK), except The Center (it doesn't add anything new). My backup data (saved data including configs) is almost 2.3GB.

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Rob Zombie's "The Munsters" Gets Teaser Trailer Debut

I cannot pass up writing this post! The trailer is so awesome! If you're familiar with the classic Munsters TV show, this trailer will probably greatly impress you, too! It doesn't even matter if you don't know who Rob Zombie is! (I'm a fan of the music, but not interested in the horror movies. I like the Zombie family, but I don't like zombies, except for Zombie Dr. Strange.)

Rock legend and horror film aficionado Rob Zombie said he's been chasing this project for 20 years. At first, I was concerned, knowing how much Rob Zombie loves horror movies and I do not. I was not expecting to be so greatly impressed! It's not like a scary horror movie, it's pretty much exactly like the show, but in "living color!" I should have realized an avid fan of the show, as Rob Zombie is, wouldn't butcher it into something it wasn't.

I love everything about this trailer! The actors do such an impressive job! They've clearly captured the essence and mannerisms of the characters and actors we're so familiar with. Uncle Herman acts just like he did back in the 60's, for example. This truly impressed me! The costumes are also very similar and wonderful. Of course there's the awesome "Munsters theme" music, too! (I think I'm gonna have to watch this again!)

What do you think about this? Are you also a Zombie fan? Are you a fan of the original show? Did you see the one released in the late 80's? (I didn't know about it until I saw it at the end of the article.) Are you planning to see this? Let me know!

Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/rob-zombies-the-munsters-film-gets-first-teaser-trailer/1100-6504308/

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Orders For Terraria Graphic Novels Are Open Now!

Tactics Ogre Gets Reborn on November 11th

Pre-order Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered by Aug 12 for Bonuses

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Coming November 11

I Am Groot on Disney+ Aug 10

House of the Dragon Premieres Aug 21 on HBO Max

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is Radical!

Marvel’s Midnight Suns Coming 10/7/22 (Now delayed to 3/23)

Grab Your Free Permanent Copy of Ark: Survival Evolved On Steam Before June 19 at 10AM PDT

Rob Zombie's "The Munsters" Gets Teaser Trailer Debut

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