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Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa's The 99, a comic series rooted in Islamic culture and religion about 99 youths from around the world empowered by magical stones, is now available to purchase digitally on iOS devices and online through comiXology. Readers can sample the series with a free, 70-page introductory issue The 99: Beginnings, with the first six regular series issues selling for $1...

Listen, nobody's saying you need help navigating Batman: Arkham City or cracking its multiple Riddler challenges -- if you're playing the game you've clearly studied Batman's detective methods -- but, if you are seeking software to help....

A classic-style Superman will star in a new iOS videogame this November, putting the Man of Steel on Apple's iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. IGN broke the news with a first-look at the Tiger Games title, including a gallery of screen shots demonstrating a number of gameplay situations players will encounter including what looks like some meteor smashing and convict wrangling...

Though hard data pertaining to digital comic sales remains exclusive to publishers, comiXology has announced that its "Comics" app peaked at #2 on iTunes' list of top grossing iPad apps this week. The app has since moved to the #4 slot, but in either case the position seems like a clear indicator that people are dropping a decent chunk of change to read comics on their tablets... Read Mo

Prominent digital comics retailer comiXology upgraded its apps on iOS devices this week, delivering a much cleaner interface, superior product searching capabilities, more download options and an overall improvement in speed. For the most part, version 3...

If you're a Japanese otaku growing bored of your crippling iPhone GPS dependence, Namco Bandai could have the solution for you -- gaming your way to destinations with Mobile Suit Gundam. Gundam Navi, the first of a line of Character Navi programs, is a new GPS app that transforms a user's commute into "battle events" that pit a location marker against randomly generated enemies lined up

With the San Diego Comic-Con International officially kicking off Wednesday night, Apple's App Store has yet to offer anything that can get you straight to the front of the lines in Hall H. A handful of iPhone apps do promise services and entertainment that could make your convention-going experience a little more pleasant, though...

Following in the footsteps of Thor: Son of Asgard, Marvel Entertainment has released a new iOS videogame tie-in for Captain America: The First Avenger. Arriving on the iPhone/iPad in the form of one convenient app this week, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty puts players in control of Cap in a $4...

There's a lot to celebrate about the 20th anniversary of Jeff Smith's Cartoon Books, namely the birth of the all-ages Bone in 1991 and Smith's latest, more mature series RASL in 2008. Each series has been collected a number of different ways in print in the past, but starting today the first 11 issues of Bone and the up-to-date run of RASL will be available digitally via comiXology...

Like many of us, my parents knew better than to fund what might have been a 24 hour binge completing the classic 1992 X-Men arcade game at our local Pizza Hut. Despite my sensible upbringing, however, that didn't stop me from teaming with a few buds to actually (for the first time in my life) complete the blasted beat 'em up at a barcade last summer...