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Marvel Top Trumps downthetubes competition – we have a winner!
Announcing the winner of our recent Marvel Top Trumps competition!
Competition Time – Marvel Top Trumps Must be Won!
We have some packs of Marvel Top Trumps to give away here at downthetubes!
World Builder: Dan Abnett talks Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
A catch up with award-winning creator Dan Abnett about the latest Warhammer game and his approach to world building
Dyson Sphere Program game heads to Steam
A new sci-fi automation game is on its way to Steam
New Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper expansions for 2000AD tabletop RPG game
Great games news for 2000AD fans
V&A’s Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition moves to Dundee
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, a V&A exhibition exploring the contemporary world of gaming, looking at how they are designed, how they captivate players, and the social and ethical issues surrounding them, is moving to V&A Dundee later this month. Dundee is, of… Read More ›
Making a Difference: Special Effect – The Gamers’ Charity
Holly Rose Swinyard explores the life-changing work of the Oxford-based Special Effect – The Gamers’ Charity, who put fun and inclusion back into the lives of people with physical disabilities by helping them to play video games. By using technology ranging… Read More ›
Beano Cluedo heads to stores in October
Launching in mid-October is the latest in the Beano Games collection: Beano Cluedo, featuring art by Nigel Parkinson. Adapting the classic game in typical Beano style, in this version – and there have been many others – somone has pranked… Read More ›
Egmont’s TOXIC Magazine launches new apps
Following up on the launch of a revamped website and its first interactive issue earlier this year, Egmont UK is extending the TOXIC Magazine brand into entertainment apps, aimed, I assume, and helping promote the title. (They're certainly good fun!)… Read More ›
Batman: Arkham Origins – Official Trailer
[embedplusvideo height=”309″ width=”500″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9pnK8akbd2M?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=9pnK8akbd2M&width=500&height=309&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep7121″ /] Here’s an impressive-looking trailer from Batman: Arkham Origins, the next installment in the blockbuster “Batman: Arkham” videogame franchise whic goes on sale in the UK in October. Developed by WB Games Montréal, the… Read More ›
Marvel Heroes game makers announce Iron Man weekend as film breaks UK box office records
Marking the launch of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 movie, which opened in the UK last week in advance of the US release and has broken box office records (taking £11.4 million in its opening weekend), game maker Gazillion Entertainment will… Read More ›
BBC’s Merlin turned into a game – so, where’s the comic?
Right, there’s a Merlin game, so where’s the comic?
Asterix game in the works
A new browser-based game based on the hugely popular Asterix series created by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny is in the works. Already one of the best-known comic series in the world with thousands of UK fans, the new browser-based… Read More ›
Lancaster Game Designers win top award
Lancaster-based game designers Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton have won the award for Best Role-Playing Game at this year’s UK Games Expo in Birmingham, for their table-top steampunk role-playing game, Abney Park’s Airship Pirates. Based on the songs of Seattle-based… Read More ›
Judge Dredd takes on Zombies in new App Game
Fuse Powered Inc. and Rebellion, the owners of 2000AD, have just released Judge Dredd vs. Zombies for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. In Judge Dredd vs. Zombies, players are the Law, taking on the role of one of the world’s… Read More ›
Games awards event set to attract top talent to Brighton
While downthetubes focus is British comics, we’re aware that many creators do work for the games industry, so readers might be interested in the upcoming Develop Industry Excellence Awards in Brighton tomorrow (20th July). Over 550 top designers, programmers, artists… Read More ›
Spider-Man Total Mayhem game for iPhone out next week in UK
Gameloft’s Spider-Man: Total Mayhem game for iPhone and iPod touch will be available in the UK on the 1st September 2010.Sure to be promoted in Panini’s superhero comics, the new title offers ultra dynamic gameplay with more than 20 fighting… Read More ›
Doctor Wii?
It looks as though we can expect a new Doctor Who game for the Nintendo Ds and Wii. The Newsround website is reporting that the game should be released in time for Christmas. At this early stage, the baddies in… Read More ›
Paul Dini Signing in London Friday 28th August
Marking the highly anticipated release of Batman: Arkham Asylum in the UK, Emmy award-winning script writer Paul Dini will be signing copies of the game at Game 100 Oxford Street, London tomorrow (Friday 28th August) between 1 and 2.00pm. Paul,… Read More ›