Gone are the days of plastic bagging and cardboard backing your comic books. Comic books go digital today on the PlayStation Portable with the launch of the PSN Digital Comics store. Just launched this afternoon, you can now download and purchase digital comics from the "Comics" section via your PSP’s or PSPgo’s PlayStation Store. Sitting alongside the Game and Video buttons on the top of the PlayStation Store menu, the Comics section brings hundreds of new digital comics from popular comic book publishers. This includes Marvel and IDW Publishing. The complete listing of comics available for the launch of Digital Comics are listed here on the PlayStation Blog. You can find comics based on Spider-Man, X-Men, Transformers, Captain America, Iron Man, Mickey Mouse, Star Trek and many more.
The price of a Digital Comic ranges from $0.99 to $1.99. The digital comics take a few MB of memory space each, most in the 10MB to 50MB range. There is a "Free Comics" section which includes many Issue #1 comics to get you hooked into a series. Sixteen comics are available for free, which include Transformers, Wallace & Gromit, G.I. Joe, The Warriors, and more.
You will need to download the free Digital Comics Reader to access the comics, which you can read more about here. There are also more instructions on how to get the reader in the Comics section on the PlayStation Store. Once installed, the Digital Comics Reader is found in the [Extras] menu of your PSP’s XMB, if you are using PSP Firmware 6.20 or later.
So are you ready to add Digital Comics to your PSP or PSPgo? How do you feel about the price, selection and digital format? Let us know with your comments below!
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Just a few days after Marvel’s announcement of Marvel Super Hero Squad, a new animated series aimed at 4 to 10 year-olds, THQ today announced it has entered an exclusive licensing agreement with Marvel to create videogames for it.
From THQ: “Pursuant to the multi-year agreement, THQ has obtained the exclusive, worldwide rights to publish content for all current and next-generation consoles, handheld systems, as well as Windows PC. The initial Marvel Super Hero Squad game is scheduled for release in fall 2009.”
The new animated TV series for Marvel Super Hero Squad will roll out in 2009 as well. Comic strips are already in the works and Hasbro has produced a line of Super Hero Squad figures. All to make sure a new generation gets to know Marvel superheroes such as Iron-Man, Spider-Man and more.
About Marvel Super Hero Squad: “An all-new Marvel brand, Marvel Super Hero Squad features an exciting, super-stylized look of the greatest Marvel Super Heroes, serving to expand the traditional Marvel audience to a core 4-10 year-old audience. Fun and humor are waiting around every corner in Marvel Super Hero Squad where popular characters including Iron-Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, The Fantastic Four, and many more are thrust into adventures in a single caricatured Super Hero City. Along the way, they will have to thwart the plans of popular Marvel villains Doctor Doom, Magneto, Iron Monger, Loki, the Abomination and countless other infamous baddies.”
From THQ
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Dig pinball and comic books? Get ready for a fun digital upgrade with Marvel Pinball. ZEN Studios today announced Marvel Pinball, a set of new pinball tables for Pinball FX 2 (Xbox LIVE Arcade) and a completely new game for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network. A variety of four tables will be included, based on Marvel’s Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man and Blade super heroes and their adversaries.
