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THX Release Home Cinema Calibration App – And For Now, It’s Free

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

Get your settings just right for your home viewing experience.

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Phoenix Comic Launches App, With Free Issue. You Know, For Kids.

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly praising Phoenix Comic, a weekly anthology comic for kids sold in Britain. Indeed we’ve suggested that if you know kids in the UK that don;’read Phoenix, it’s tantamount to neglect not to let them read …

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Read Viz Comic For Free, Legally, For Twenty Minutes

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Britain’s best selling comic book, Viz, a satirical comedy anthology of comics strips and mock magazine/newspaper articles with an adult reading audience, has joined the Readr App, which allows subscribers to read twenty minutes of magazines from their collection for …

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ComiXology Develop Diary Of A Wimpy Kid App (UPDATED)

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Some people call it a comic. Some an illustrated story. If the former then it outsells every other comic book on the bookshelves on a regular basis, including The Walking Dead. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, over several volumes and …

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Does The Star Wars Angry Birds AT AT Game Promise A New App For Monday?

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

So much Angry Birds, so much Star Wars. I almost want to do the Chicken Dance in a Chewbacca suit.

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Stan Lee Launches Vertical Game App That Is Guaranteed To Fail

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Verticus is a new game app from Moonshark, with Stan Lee announced at Comikaze. An “endless runner” game, it sees the lead character eternally falling through the Earth’s core to save the planet from the Obliterator aliens. The characters were …

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New Hobbit App Reveals The New Climax To Film One

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Hot hot hot.

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The 2000AD Day-And-Date Digital Experience

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For years, Americans and Brits have been trying to deal with the tricky problem, how to sell the British sci-fi weekly anthology comic 2000AD in the USA. Because, while there is a terribly efficient distribution system that gets American comics …

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Liam Sharp, Dave Gibbons, Gary Erskine, Doug Braithwaite, Mike Carey And More Launch Madefire – The Ultimate Digital Comic Book Reader?

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

At Bleeding Cool, we’ve been following the different types of digital comics that have been emerging. Those that use limited animation. Those that use different layers, with limited special effects. Those that let you tip the tablet to see different …

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Red Circle Comics Launches New Crusaders App

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The New Crusaders App went live last night featuring the new Archie Comics revival of the Red Circle superhero characters, delivering 8 pages of new content a week as well as a classic Red Circle comic. Hmm. You know it’s …

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Friday Runaround – Are You Heavy Metal Material?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

BackWatch: Heavy Metal Magazine needs three back covers. Think you’re up for the job? Dave Elliott writes; We need three pieces of artwork from three different artists one for each of the three different editions that are going to press …

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What’s Up With DC Comics, ComiXology And The Kindle?

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

“Currently, DC Comics are no longer available for purchase on our Fire app.” -  ComiXology representative to a Bleeding Cool reader After making such a furore by signing their most popular hundred graphic novels exclusively to the Kindle Fire last …

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Odd Things In The Marvel AR Android App

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We’ve already seen how some if the AVX imagery can trigger a 3D Iron Man walking around the device on your screen. But one of Bleeding Cool’s more technologically minded Little Bleeders, Matt Watts, has been having a closer look …

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Marvel AR Reader Pops Out A 3D Iron Man

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Take a random Avengers Vs X-Men image. Put your Apple device over it with the Marvel AR App. Play around with what happens. I wonder what other images out there trigger interesting things on App in question… Anyone fancy some …

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Fallout From The Graphic.Ly Switch From App To eBook Publishing

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

That’s still the big news today — Graphic.Ly leaving the arms race they’d been having with ComiXology over day-and-date replication of the direct market online (that they were never going to win), and becoming a service provider for publishers. They will …

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ComiXology And Marvel Apple Apps Go HD – And ComiXology Embeds Social Networking Too

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We ran a comparison piece on the new ComiXology HD App the other day, and now it’s gone live for Apple devices. The Marvel App has also offered an HD Update. But far more than offering higher definition comics for …

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Could The Bane Of Yoto Herald In A New Look For Digital Comics?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Josh Viola of Leviathan Games has created The Bane Of Yoto, a digital comic for the iPhone 4 and iPads, using tilt controls to alter the way you see different levels on the page. The background and foreground of the …

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John Cleese’s Special Message For You… If You’ve Been Commenting On Monty Python Clips Online

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Find out why John Cleese’s bedroom smells of Eldberberry, and more.

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