DST is letting fans pick which characters will be in the Infinity box set based on last year’s Marvel Comics event.
Read More »Koto announces a quartet of new statues, featuring Master Chief, Arrow, and more
The Japanese collectible and statue maker has some awesome stuff on tap for the remainder of 2o14, including Halo’s Master Chief, Arrow from DC Comics, Jason from Friday the 13th reimagined as a woman, and Attack on Titan’s Eren Jaeger.
Read More »The Skylanders have Soccer Fever with Kickoff Countdown
One of the more popular of the SWAP Force series of Skylanders, Countdown is absolutely exploding with excitement over one of the most popular sports on Earth; soccer.
Read More »Sunday Review: The Brutal Gamer archive for the week of 5/12/14
This past 7 was a huge week for news in the gaming industry as massive releases were unveiled in both Far Cry 4 and Halo 5 along with plenty of news about some big changes coming to the Xbox One.
Read More »Spidey movie Minimates swing into stores this week
Series 56 (I know right?!) of DST’s Marvel-flavored Minimates is finally here in stores. The set showcases a bunch of familiar Spider-Man characters as they’re envisioned in the new Amazing Spider-Man 2 motion picture and is pretty loaded with cool stuff for fans of the web-head.
Read More »Whopping 17 pre-orders open up for DST products this month
Touted as one of the biggest months ever for Diamond Select Toys, and with 17 monster items up for pre-order, it just might be.
Read More »Digital Cards for a Digital Age – 9 can’t miss card games on the App Store
Digital card games are nothing new. We all remember opening up Solitaire or Hearts on our old Windows 95 computers (Spider Solitaire was my favorite). As gaming and technology advanced and with the advent of the ‘mobile’ era, the non-traditional card games like Magic: The Gathering, Yugioh, and others have …
Read More »Sunday Review: The Brutal Gamer Archive for the week of 5/5/14
Horror Month shuffles onward as we have news about Shin Megami Tensei, Bound by Flame and more, including a preview of NeocoreGames’ Van Helsing sequel and a look at the history of horror movies as games.
Read More »DST launches Mego style Marvel Retro line
If you’re a Marvel fan, these are going to be hard to pass up. Diamond Select Toys has an awesome series of Marvel figures on the way that pay homage to that classic toy line from the 1970’s- Mego’s World’s Greatest Super-Heroes.
Read More »Nintendo announces interactive figures-into-games line
Right in line with Skylanders and Disney Infinity, Nintendo has announced that Mario and the gang will be making their way to the world of interactive figures.
Read More »Deadly Foes of Spider-Man Minimates box set on the way from DST
Diamond Select Toys has a new box set of Minimates featuring the four of the wall-crawler’s classic enemies and plenty of extra parts- enough to make 7 different figures.
Read More »Sunday Archive: The Brutal Gamer Archive for the week of 4/28/14
Some big stories, like the reveal of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the possible X-Men live action TV series, and more Mario Kart news, broke this past week. We also kicked off our month-long celebration of all things horror with the aptly titled Horror Month. Click, and be afraid.
Read More »Take a pic with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, win some awesome prizes
Diamond Select Toys is celebrating the release of their dual Stay Puft men into stores with a special contest.
Read More »The legend is true, there be ET carts in that landfill
At the end of one of the most disastrous ages in all of gaming, a load of Atari games and paraphernalia was dumped into a landfill in the New Mexican desert; or so the story goes. Thanks to a documentary film crew that carried out a dig this past weekend …
Read More »Sunday Review: The Brutal Gamer Archive for the week of 4/21/14
More WonderCon and C2E2 (currently still ongoing in Chicago) coverage highlighted a week where we also saw a preview of the incredible-looking BroForce, news about games like Batman: Arkham Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition, and a double-header review of Castlevania titles. Throw in our usual assortment of reviews, news, and …
Read More »WonderCon: The Venture Bros to get artistic with Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse will be publishing an art book based on the long-running Adult Swim show later this year.
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