We play through the second chapters of Walking With Dinosaurs with children (6, 8 and 10 years old). Here we try our hand at excavating fossils, piecing together Dinosaur evidence, scanning bodies and remembering all that for the final quiz. Watch edited review of Wonderbook Walking With Dinosaurs: Video: How many Batmans are in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham? We dinna-dinna-dinna-dunno exactly, but loads. Don't be confused by the three in its title - there are actually tons of Batmans (Batmen?) in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.But how many? Eurogamer's masterfully manscaped YouTube editor Ian Higton recently caught up with Lego Batman 3 game director Arthur Parsons to shine a light in his eyes and find out. Watch his investigation below for news on Zebra Batman, Rainbow Batman and Adam West - they're all included - and others which are on the way via the game's Season Pass. Comments for this article are now closed, but please feel free to continue chattingBurbank, Calif. – – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, The LEGO Group and Marvel Entertainment today announced the launch of LEGO® Marvel’s Avengers, an all new action-packed Super Hero adventure that allows players to relive the most amazing moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe through six Marvel Studios films, while also experiencing classic Avengers characters and content from acclaimed Marvel Comics.
Developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, LEGOMarvel’s Avengers is now available for the PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems, PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system, Xbox One®, Xbox 360®, the Wii U™ system from Nintendo, the Nintendo 3DS™ family of systems and Windows PC. LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is the first videogame to feature storylines from the critically-acclaimed film Marvel’s The Avengers and its hit sequel Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as playable content based on additional Marvel Studios blockbusters, including Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel’s Iron Man 3, Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and Marvel’sCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. “LEGO Marvel’s Avengers celebrates the thrilling world of Avengers as only a LEGO game can,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “Players of all ages will be able to experience their favorite Marvel moments in a brand new way, through six different blockbuster films across the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while also exploring an incredible amount of classic Avengers characters and content from famed Marvel Comics, all with our unique LEGO style and humor.
It’s an epic combination for fans and newcomers alike.” “Both the LEGO and Marvel brands appeal to fans of all ages through a multitude of retail, media and interactive channels,” said Peter Phillips, EVP/GM, Interactive & Digital Distribution, Marvel Entertainment. “With the incredible success of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, focusing on Marvel Cinematic Universe characters and stories in LEGO Marvel’s Avengers was a natural fit for fans and the business.” In LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, gamers can play and unlock more than 200 characters, with over 100 new characters that have not appeared in a LEGO videogame before. For the first time, players can execute incredible Avengers Team-Up Moves resulting in incredible combos when using core Avengers, including Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Hulk, Thor and Iron Man. LEGO Marvel’s Avengers also features a unique take on open world gameplay, with eight different environments to explore within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the expansive streets of Marvel’s New York, as well as Asgard, Barton’s Farm, Malibu, the S.H.I.E.L.D. Base Exterior, Sokovia, South Africa and Washington, D.C. Players can freely roam around these open world locations using brand new gameplay mechanics
, allowing Hulk to super jump off skyscrapers, Quicksilver to speed run over water or even play as giant characters, like the menacing Fing Fang Foom, who can grow to the size of tall buildings. Open World Manhattan will also be available on handheld consoles for the first time so fans can enjoy the sprawling concrete jungle on the go, anytime, anywhere. Available today is the LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Digital Deluxe Edition, which includes the main game and Season Pass, available now for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at a suggested retail price of $69.99 and for PlayStation 3 at a suggested retail price of $59.99. The Season Pass, which is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U and Windows PC, can be purchased separately for $9.99 and features content packs based on Marvel properties, including Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. andThe Masters of Evil. Fans can also enjoy DLC packs based on the upcoming Marvel Studios films Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War and the recently released Marvel’s Ant-Man, available as a FREE download exclusively for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 players for a limited time.
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War DLC pack is available starting today and Marvel’s Ant-Man DLC pack will launch later this spring. LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is rated “E10+” for everyone 10 and older by the ESRB and is now available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at a suggested retail price of $59.99 , PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U at a suggested retail price of $49.99 and PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS at a suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information, please visit:’s videogame console will get a new game-playing cousin in the U.S. and Canada this fall, the TV, a $99 video device that can play older PlayStation and PS Vita games on a TV set with a standard Sony game controller. A bundle including the device, a controller, an HDMI cable, a memory card and a voucher for the Lego Movie game will cost $139. It will also be able to play the next installment of Disney’s massively successful Infinity hybrid game, which uses physical figurines to unlock a variety of different kinds of game play, when that launches early next year.
The PlayStation TV, under a slightly different name, has been available in Japan previously. It was announced at Sony’s big pre- presentation tonight to media and analysts, but it could lead to a much wider reach for Sony’s PlayStation platform in North America by giving access to many games from Sony’s PS Vita handheld platform, plus the upcoming PlayStation Now service that will provide access to hundreds of older games from previous PlayStation consoles. The device’s launch in the U.S. also thrusts Sony into the already crowded race with Apple, Roku, Google, Amazon and others selling inexpensive Net-enabled devices that can bring new kinds of content to a dumb traditional TV screen. The difference for Sony may be the access the new device will provide to a deep library of hundreds of older video games, which also will become available over the coming months on all of Sony’s existing game devices as well. You can watch just the part of the two-hour announcement focused on the PlayStation TV here:
But news of the PlayStation TV was one of a seemingly endless procession of announcements from Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House and others, made in between a series of frustrating video freeze-ups that locked out many online viewers of the announcement event. Among the other announcements of likely interest to the entertainment business: will become available on the platform this fall, with new tools to make it easy to create, share and see friends’ video made while using the PS4. Tied in with the PS4’s new Share Factory video-editing software, which now comes with every console, the flood of game-play videos already all over the Internet should be hitting tsunami levels by the holiday. The console is also ramping up its game-spectating capabilities, which already have been used 150 million times since the PS4 launched, to let people watching an online game either help or hinder a player directly. This piggy-backs on the huge rise in gameplay video that has, for instance, driven the growth of Twitch, uStream and other online video companies, as well as a significant chunk of the YouTube universe.
“When you’re watching some schlock horror movie, have you ever had the desire to scream out, ‘Look behind you,’ or, ‘Don’t open that door?” Now you can do effectively that on PS4. This is another way we’re going to define what social gaming can mean.” The PlayStation Now service will be available for open beta testing on the PS4 on July 31 and roll out to other PlayStation devices thereafter, providing access to hundreds of titles. For the first time, the games also will be available to play directly on some Sony-made (presumably smart) television sets, provided you have a game controller. The service will “test a range of rental durations and prices” during the open beta period. Powers, an exclusive digital video series based on Marvel’s comic book/graphic novels, has been greenlit to series and is in production. It will arrive at the end of the year from Sony TV and PlayStation in concert with Marvel. The first episode will be free to everyone on a PS4, and subscribers to Sony’s PlayStation Network Plus will get the entire series for free.
“It’s also going to show us what a world with people with powers would look like,” said executive producer Brian Michael Bendis, who is also the comic’s co-creator. “I know that as gamers and comic book lovers, we love our genres hard-core. One of my jobs as exec producer of the show is to make sure that the TV show gives us what the comic book gave us, with all the authenticity we can muster.” A new Batman game, Batman Arkham Knight, is coming from Warner Bros. Interactive and developer Rocksteady. Arkham Asylum, its predecessor, was a massive critical and commercial hit. This one looks even better, with what appear to be similar gameplay mechanics. All they need is a compelling story. An animated movie featuring Insomniac Games’ classic characters Ratchet & Clank is being made, and the original (and delightful) R&C game is being remastered for the PS4. Grim Fandango, a much-loved and very quirky 1990s-era game from LucasArts, will be revived and remastered for the PS4.
Disney deep-sixed the LucasArts videogame team when it bought the Star Wars franchise and other George Lucas assets, but Fandango now will dance on. House also touted both enhancements to the PlayStation Camera, a video device that plugs into the PS4 for various game enhancements and experiences, and said the company will show its Project Morpheus virtual-reality headsets at E3 during the show. “We’re pursuing new innovative technology that takes gaming to an entirely new direction,” House said. Sony came into the presentation borne on very strong sales of really all of its game devices, including the older PS3 and the Vita. Japan’s Nikkei business site reported that, in 2013, for the first time in eight years, Sony has sold more units of game hardware than Nintendo, whose two-year-old Wii U console has flagged badly in the market but whose various hand-held DS descendants of the Game Boy continue to be strong sellers. Overall, Nikkei reported after compiling various public filings by the two companies, Sony has sold about 18.7 million units compared to about 16.2 million for Nintendo.
The third console competitor, Microsoft, doesn’t have a handheld option to complement its Xbox One and Xbox 360. Technical headaches showed that Sony once again can’t figure out how to provide adequate video streams to its own ardent fans. Not very encouraging when you’re trying to own the next generation of entertainment. uStream transmission of the event repeatedly froze with a few seconds of logging in, making it nearly impossible during the first 45 minutes to an hour for lots of fans around the world to see the feed, at least so it appeared from the reactions on Twitter: Can’t get a decent stream on any machine, screw it. — Jim Rion (@EasternSmooth) June 10, 2014 The #PS4E3 conference should be a lot slicker than this, there is masses of awkwardness — Joe Stanley (@yosagojimbo) June 10, 2014 When the signal did come through, though, it was clear the company was willing to showcase a remarkably wide range of titles, even very small ones from indie game designers, such as the ethereal Entwined, which requires a player to control two characters, one with each hand, to overcome a series of obstacles.