board games

As is usually the case, last weekend's San Diego Comic-Con involved a ton of announcements, but there's one really cool new project in the works that might've slipped under your radar: A "big box" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board game set for release in early 2016 featuring art by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, and a design by Kevin Wilson.

Good news for those of you who have been wondering who to call if there's an invisible man sleeping in your bed: Cryptozoic launched a Kickstarter campaign today for a Ghostbusters board game, and it looks awesome. Set for release, appropriately enough, by Halloween of this year, the game is for one to four players, with reversible tiles for the board and cooperative mechanics that allow you to play as the characters from the 1984 classic, duking it out with enemies from the movies, the cartoon, and the comics. And if you're a fan of the IDW books -- which I am -- there's a pretty good reason to be excited: The designs for the characters were all done by comic artist Dan Schoening.

Bootlegs: It may have been a bootleg, but Nagraj Vs. Shakoora The Magician's amazing team-up of Nagraj, Superman, Batman and Spider-Man is a crossover for the ages. Movies: James Cameron says his live action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga is still a go after he finishes an Avatar sequel...

TV: AMC's latest trailer for The Walking Dead season two focuses on the tensions of life after zombies. Manga: A live-action Ranma 1/2 TV special will air in December on Japan's NTV. Upcoming: IDW's "Photo Cover Month" puts some action figure goodness on the front of its G...

When MTV Splash Page broke that a board game based on The Walking Dead comic book was headed to retail this summer from Z-Man Games, I was pretty interested in seeing how the gameplay mechanic might work. Yesterday new images popped up on ICv2, but it turns out that while they were for a TWD board game, it was a different item entirely...