Fantastic Universes

Press Release by Adam Ray DC: Dark Legion Unveils March Release Date, Opens Pre-Registration We've heard rumblings of a mobile gaming epic coming to our shores some time 2025. We've finally been given the date of March 14th as the official release. The Pre-Registration is open right now, and it offers eager players exclusive rewards for signing up ahead of time. FunPlus , one of the world’s largest independent game companies, today announced that  DC: Dark Legion , the upcoming strategy game set in the DC universe, will launch on  March 14, 2025  for iOS, Android, and PC. Starting today, players can visit the  App Store ,  Google Play  and  dcdarklegion.com  to pre-register for the game to earn rewards at launch and help reach player milestones that unlock rewards for the whole community: 1 Million – Weapons Optional Gift Pack (contains 1 of 5 iconic weapons) 2 Million – 100x Green Mother Boxes (giving the chance to obtain full heroes, hero fragme...

Review by Adam Ray It's no secret that I love games. With the big annual ritualistic gift giving ceremony just ended, I was bequeathed a great many experiences to be enjoyed over a night of tabletop fun. One such title I've wanted since I saw the box art's charming little Mushroom creatures, and the dynamic movement of the centre piece has to be Mycelia.   Designed by Daniel Greiner and published by Ravensburger, this charming deck builder has quickly become one of my all time favourites! Mycelia  is a deck-building, action point game. That's fancy gamer nerd lexis for a game where you take cards to add to your personal deck which lets you do certain things to help you win. In the story of the game, the forest is flooded with dewdrops, and the living mushroom people all need your help to clear those dewdrops. Your cards primarily either grant you more leaves (this game's version of currency) or manipulate the dewdrops, by moving them around or removing them from the...

Review by Adam Ray The Professor has returned! With a sequel to the cosmic classic Apequest album. We can see our bringer of Steampunk songs going full force to broadcast new and masterful sounds akin to that of School of Whimsy  with all the progressive storytelling elements of the original Apequest album and welcome inclusions of many Amazing Friends . Trophy Room.  The album starts with a lively sequel to The Attic that masterfully weaves together references to philosophy, comics, and his old songs. Most albums open with the hit, and this single track perfectly blends the Professor's rap skill with shows there's a real progressed as a rapper, a lot of technical skill. What Could Possibly Go Wrong perfectly interludes the songs in with the time travel story. Pirates Hate Me  is a welcome look into how best the Professor handles pirates. The second time they've featured in a time travel album after This Means War. The frontman of The Cog is Dead, a very talented steamp...

  Chris Claremont is arguably the most influential X-Men writer and one of the most important superhero comics creators in general. His command of prose, deft use of subplots, and willingness to let characters grow in unexpected ways put a definitive stamp that few has been able to replicate since. Come and see how X-Men rose from obscurity into the a global pop culture phenomenon primarily under the pen of this one man. "Greater Love Hath No X-Man"  Uncanny X-Men #100 Writers: Chris Claremont Artists: Dave Cockrum Review by Eric Lee Previously on X-Men:  The Sentinels have captured half the X-Men, but the other half of the team hijacked a space shuttle to rescue them from the Sentinels' floating space base. As the team navigates through the villain base, they run into the original X-Men team and a unusually bloodthirsty Professor X commanding them to kill the new team. Lets take a moment to admire the cover. Not only is the cover image highly iconic with the...

Article by Adam Ray It's a little known fact that I deeply love rhythm games. Everyone I know has some opinion about the very physical arcade classic, Dance Dance Revolution , while I spent a great deal of the evenings in my youth when I should have been studying instead playing Cytus  on my clapped up old Android phones. EGX has since merged with MCM, making it a whole weekend of nerd culture. My own work with the Mystic Muses D&D Podcast has been well documented at that event, and this will be the first of two rhythm games I had the delight of sampling at that amazing event. Sound Caster  is a hybrid adventure rhythm game with an amazing pixel art style. It's simultaneously a delight for an ADHD sufferer like myself, and a nightmare for an ADHD sufferer like myself. The gameplay loop features you playing two games simultaneously, and finding the harmonious balance between them is the real challenge unlike the actual gameplay itself. On the right side of your screen is th...

Press Release by Adam Ray We've mentioned it briefly in a past post , but now we can say for certain that Nubia is being added to Multiversus today, October 15th. Wildly different from the Power Puff Girls, Nubia hits fast in the Assassin playstyle. Read the official details below: All hail the Queen! Warner Bros. Games today released a new  MultiVersus  trailer revealing the first look at gameplay for DC’s  Nubia , the current Queen of the Amazons and protector of Themyscira, who will join the roster as the latest playable character on Oct. 15 as part of  Season 3: Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice .   Nubia  is a close-combat damage dealer with a dominant moveset featuring her Staff of Understanding that brings long-range spear fighting with a touch of godly power into the mix. In the new trailer,  Nubia’s  prowess as an Assassin class fighter is on full display, including her ability to slash, strike, and propel kicks towards opponents, as wel...