2013 will see the MCM magic head north of the border for the first MCM Scotland Comic Con - a brand new one-day festival brought to you by the organisers of Britain's biggest popular culture event, MCM London Comic Con.

Debuting on 31 August at Scotland's premier national events venue, SECC Glasgow, MCM Scotland Comic Con will feature everything from new movies, much-loved sci-fi shows and top comic creators to the latest videogames, anime and manga ...plus a great special guest line-up, of course!

"MCM are so looking forward to bringing our brand to Glasgow’s SECC," said show co-organiser Bryan Cooney. "Our sponsors and exhibitors have been asking for a Scottish event and in 2013 they will get their wish. We look forward to visiting the city of Glasgow."

Breda Cruickshank, Head of Exhibition Sales, SECC commented: “We are delighted to be welcoming this exciting event to Glasgow. Hosting such varied sectors of the entertainment industry, from comics and manga to film and cult fiction will make for an action packed weekend!”

The announcement comes after the huge success of the existing MCM Midlands Comic Con in February and MCM Manchester Comic Con in July, which drew 11,300 visitors on only its second outing. The launch of MCM Scotland Comic Con means that film fans, gamers, anime enthusiasts, cosplayers and collectors now have the chance to attend MCM events in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and Telford.

MCM will also be expanding their Birmingham events during 2013, with the Memorabilia Show now being permanently co-located with the new MCM Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC. The comic con debuted alongside Memorabilia in March 2012, and the overwhelming positive visitor response means that the show will now be joining MCM's roster of permanent events.

The MCM Group's next event is the Memorabilia Birmingham collectors' show, which takes place at the NEC this weekend, 24-25 November.

Launches November 30th, 10% discount on preorders. Previously an AI-only force, the Otomo Clan has been expanded into a fully-featured playable faction. With new units, buildings, technologies and more, the Otomo Clan Pack offers an altogether different style of play from any of the other clans, making it an essential download for SHOGUN 2 players.

As the clan that welcomed Portuguese traders and missionaries into Japan, the Otomo gain easy access to modern gunpowder weapons and major bonuses to the spread of Christianity. In addition, their relations with the west enable them to lease land to the Portuguese and raise war-funds with remarkable speed.

The Otomo Clan will be live on STEAM on November 30th with 10% discount on preorders until launch day.

STEAM store link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/223180

To coincide with the launch of the multi-language trivia game QuizQuizQuiz, AGON has increased its multilingual capacity to support French, German, Spanish and Italian. The localisation of AGON Online has been facilitated by Four Door Lemon and QuizQuizQuiz and the multilingual platform is immediately available for all other games using AGON to provide a better experience for all European customers.


Simon Barratt, Managing Director of Four Door Lemon, said: "It was clear to us that AGON was one of the most fully functional systems available for online leaderboards and player profiles, plus they are backed by a great team. AGON Online was the final piece of the jigsaw for our first trivia game, QuizQuizQuiz, and we were delighted to work with AGON to localise their interface into several new languages. And of course it is all the better that the new multilingual version of AGON Online will be available to all other game developers on the platform."

Daniel Povlsen of AGON Online commented: "Online and mobile gaming should have no international barriers - and we're very excited that we're doing our bit by making our platform more accessible to non-English speaking gamers."

The development of Mars: War Logs is progressing steadily and quickly! Today, this role-playing game, developed by Spiders Studio for Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network and PC Digital, unveils its first official screenshots.







Since its first appearance as a short video teaser unveiled a few months ago, these six images are a testament to the progress made on the game. They give a glimpse of some of the environments, inhabitants and creatures of the Red Planet, which are brought to life by the Silk Engine, developed by Spiders Studio.

The screenshots take us to the Red Planet, over a century after the catastrophe that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid planet with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control. In the middle of this struggle, players take on the role of Roy Temperance, a renegade with multiple talents, and plunge into a thrilling cyberpunk RPG on Mars! Players develop Roy and his combat style by choosing from dozens of skills and perks, and fight for his life in dynamic real-time combat against the fearsome creatures of Mars. The crafting system lets players create and modify equipment to maintain an edge over their enemies. Dialogue choices as well as actions and decisions will influence the destiny of the people Roy crosses paths with…and perhaps the entire fate of Mars.

Mars: War Logs will be released on PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE and as a PC digital download early 2013.

official Twilight Saga mobile game, Twilight Saga QuizUp. The app, now available on both iOS and Android devices, lets devoted fans showoff their knowledge of the film series by competing head to head in a live multiplayer match with fellow Twihards around the world.











“Our partnership with Summit Entertainment gives the biggest fans of THE TWILIGHT SAGA’s thrilling love story a fun and challenging way to get ready for the release of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2,” say Thor Fridriksson, CEO of Plain Vanilla. “This opportunity will also put our innovative QuizUp platform in the hands of a large and passionate audience and show off the beautiful and entertaining apps that can be produced using our revolutionary social trivia platform.”

Plain Vanilla is a San Francisco-based app developer that creates unique games using their real time social trivia platform, QuizUp. QuizUp is the first platform in the world that offers players the chance to compete head-to-head in real-time across all major mobile platforms. QuizUp is a new and innovative way to engage and challenge the audience.

Summit Entertainment will bring THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 to many local theatres in North America at 10 p.m. on November 15, 2012 and will then release the film across North America and around the world via multiple show times on November 16, 2012.

The astonishing conclusion to THE TWILIGHT SAGA franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. Academy Award® winner Bill Condon directed both the first and second parts of the two-part finale starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. The film, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, was written by Melissa Rosenberg with Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt and Stephenie Meyer producing.

Download Twilight Saga QuizUp on the App Store for $.99 here or the free version here. Or check out the game on Google Play here for $.99 or here for the free version.

Magrunner will put your brain and reflexes to the test! Magrunner is an original Action/Puzzle game developed by 3AM Games (Frogwares) for PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE and PC, based on physics and magnetism.






Developed on Unreal Engine 3, Magrunner transports players into the near future, where technology will confront the Cthulhu Mythos inspired by the works of the author, H.P. Lovecraft. Today, the game unveils 4 exclusive screenshots, taking us to the year 2050, where you and 6 other brilliant competitors have been selected to be in the heart of a grand tournament the Magtech competition. This tournament, organized to promote a new technology based on magnetism, tests your brain and reflexes, with simple yet exciting mechanics: with the Magtech glove, you can load objects with a positive or negative charge. Two items loaded with the same charge will attract each other, while two items loaded with different charges will repel!

These simple mechanics open a broad range of possibilities. Upon mastering them you will be able to progress along the game by solving puzzles, studying your surroundings, testing possibilities, and analyzing their effects.
However, you will soon understand that the sporting event you have entered hides a darker secret…. Eventually, the high-tech installations that host the competition will plunge into a foreign, perilous parallel universe: the world of Cthulhu, a strange land filled with strange creatures based on H.P. Lovecraft’s fantasy novels.

In this dangerous world, your skills will be tested more than ever. Do not falter, for your very life is at stake… and the fate of mankind is in your hands.