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		<title>Activision Panel with Stan Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Activision Panel moderated by Electric Playground producer Victor Lucas, had faces such as ever-popular Ms. Marvel scribe Brian Reed and comic legend Stan Lee! Studio head of Activision&#8217;s Shaba Games Chris Scholz and Vicarious Visions art director Bryan Shutt were also in attendance. Here are the highlights of this year&#8217;s Activision panel:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Activision Panel moderated by Electric Playground producer Victor Lucas, had faces such as ever-popular Ms. Marvel scribe Brian Reed and comic legend Stan Lee! Studio head of Activision&#8217;s Shaba Games Chris Scholz and Vicarious Visions art director Bryan Shutt were also in attendance. Here are the highlights of this year&#8217;s Activision panel:</p>
<p>- When asked what it was like to see some of his character &#8220;It&#8217;s nice.&#8221;<br />
- Two trailers were shown. A new one for Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion, and older one for Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.<br />
- The trailer for Ultimate Alliance 2 showcased Captain America, Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Human Torch, Thing, and Iron Man. Included was a shot of the famed Fastball Special with Wolverine and Hulk.<br />
- Stan &#8220;The Man&#8221; Lee just nicknamed Brian Reed: Brian &#8220;Razzle Dazzle&#8221; Reed!<br />
- Web of Shadows Plot: &#8220;Symbiotes are taking over New York. It&#8217;s kind of like doing a zombie movie with Spider Man&#8221; &#8211; Brian &#8220;Razzle Dazzle&#8221; Reed.<br />
- On what goes into designing Spider-Man&#8217;s New York: &#8220;Let&#8217;s have the city be Spider-Man&#8217;s playground.&#8221; &#8211; Chris Sholz. Spider-Man is new to Shaba Games, who did the DLC pack that came out last year. They&#8217;ve done a lot of extreme sports games, like Tony Hawk, and they plan to bring that kind of fluidity to a super-hero game. &#8220;With all his abilities, it was a perfect match.&#8221;<br />
- Brian Reed on writing for a video game vs. a comic book. &#8220;The beginning is always the same.&#8221; &#8220;When you&#8217;re doing a video game, where are the parts we want you to feel involved so that you feel those emotions rather than having the story make you feel that emotion.&#8221;<br />
- Chris Scholz on relationship between Marvel and Shaba/Activision: &#8220;The thing that&#8217;s been great is that [Marvel] wants it to be awesome.&#8221;<br />
- Stan Lee on how comic book stories have influenced good stories in video game &#8220;Theyve influenced them in the sense that they&#8217;re the basis of stories for comic book characters. &#8230; They&#8217;ve gone beyond movies. To do a movie is difficult, but it&#8217;s linear. &#8230; In a video game, you&#8217;re writing many stories within the stories and its a totally different structure and a totally different philosophy of writing &#8230; I get the feeling there&#8217;s more work put into these video games than movies. &#8230; In the beginning I thought video games were kind of clever, &#8230; but now you watch one of these games and it&#8217;s like watching the greatest superhero movie. It&#8217;s indescribable what you guys have done.&#8221;<br />
- Bryon Shutt on taking over from Raven: &#8220;Raven did a great job and we have a lot to live up to. We haven&#8217;t forgotten what made the original a huge success. Everything from solid combat to cooperative play and just the largest army of heroes. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to deliver on in the sequal. We&#8217;ve got a huge team that&#8217;s really excited about this project.&#8221;<br />
- Bryon Shutt on the new powers and story: &#8220;We&#8217;re taking the largest army of super heroes and allowing the player to fuse powers that are greater than their own.&#8221; Story: &#8220;All I can say is that it starts on Secret War.&#8221;<br />
- Stan Lee on what it&#8217;s like to see all his characters in one game: &#8220;It brings me back to the comics. We started the Avengers, we had all the characters and we always tried to get special storeis with special characters.&#8221;<br />
- Stan Lee on superpowers he would fuse together &#8220;I&#8217;m not really a character fusor together type of guy! If I can come up with one idea, I&#8217;m happy! Guy gets bitten by a radioactive spider, I&#8217;ll settle for that. If I were going to fuse things, I would say what if Wolverine could walk on walls, and had a suit of armor, and his armor turned green&#8230;&#8221;</p>

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		<title>New Upper Deck World of Warcraft Miniatures!</title>
		<link>http://conreport.wizarduniverse.com/2008/07/23/new-upper-deck-world-of-warcraft-miniatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Hey WoW fans! Upper Deck has got a new game for you! I just got back from demoing the new World of Warcraft miniatures game, and I had a blast. This is probably the only miniatures game that I&#8217;ve actually enjoyed. It incorporates some of the best aspects of the MMORPG while still retaining [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://conreport.wizarduniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/thumbs-up.jpg" width=125 align="right">Hey Hey WoW fans! Upper Deck has got a new game for you! I just got back from demoing the new World of Warcraft miniatures game, and I had a blast. This is probably the only miniatures game that I&#8217;ve actually enjoyed. It incorporates some of the best aspects of the MMORPG while still retaining a unique gameplay aspect that doesn&#8217;t come along all that often in miniatures games. The figures are absolutely gorgeous. I managed to get some shots of the figures and the gameplay board. Check &#8216;em out below, and check back at Wizard Universe for more WoW Miniatures updates after Comic Con! &#8211; SS</p>
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