No More "X-Men", MOTU Controversy, Saving Stargate - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Had some busy days the last couple of days; a lot going on with Stargate, and I’ve been working hard with the fan community to try to make a push to pressure Amazon into getting this new show on the air. Today also had Summer Games Fest, with a lot of announcements from different companies, including TMNT: The Last Ronin and Guild Wars 3.
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Insomniac Removed “X-Men” From Their Wolverine Game In Latest DEI Move
Marvel’s Wolverine creative director Marcus Smith confirmed to Variety on June 3 that the X-Men do not exist in Insomniac’s version of the Marvel universe. “In our world, mutants aren’t really that well known throughout the world, so they’re mostly in hiding because they’re pretty vulnerable,” Smith explained. Instead of the X-Men, the game features a g…
CMON Has $14 Million In Unfulfilled Crowdfunds And Just Spent $2.1 Million On An NFT Company
CMON Limited, once one of the most successful crowdfunding-based board game publishers in the hobby, announced in April that it is investing $2.1 million to acquire a stake in Blissful Link, the company behind Capverse, a “Web3 play-to-earn game using blockchain technology.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Adrian Tchaikovsky Talks His Sci-Fi Work And New Graphic Novel
Adrian Tchaikovsky has made a career of being a workhorse in science fiction, a very prolific writer who’s garnered a lot of attention and awards for his space opera series. Now, he’s delving into the comics realm for the first time, and he sat down with Fandom Pulse to talk about his new graphic novel.
The People Who Built Tekken Have Left the Building
Kohei Ikeda, game director of Tekken 7 and Tekken 8, announced on June 1 that he has left Bandai Namco after 20 years. His statement: “I have officially left Bandai Namco Entertainment after many years with the company. Being surrounded by passionate and incredibly talented mentors and colleagues, and dedicating ourselves wholeheartedly to game developm…
Shadiversity And Midnight’s Edge Fight Over Whether Masters Of The Universe Is Woke
Masters of the Universe opened Thursday night and immediately split the content creator community that had been loudest about its red flags. Two prominent YouTube voices with large audiences in the conservative geek culture space came out with opposite verdicts — and the exchange between them became its own story.
How to Fight for Stargate - Here Is What You Can Do Right Now
Amazon killed the new Stargate series after a 20-week writers room, active pre-production in the United Kingdom, and two years of creative development. Their stated reason: the show was too focused on existing fans and lacked broad appeal beyond the franchise’s dedicated audience.
The Corporations Decided You’re The Wrong Audience: A Stargate Case Study
The companies that own the things you love do not love you back. They have decided, brand by brand and franchise by franchise, that the loyal audience they inherited is the wrong audience. You’re not big enough, not young enough, and not the demographic the marketing deck wants in the quarterly slides. So they spend years and fortunes trying to trade the fans they have for fans they imagine, and when the trade fails, as it always fails, they blame the property and move on to the next one.