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Injustice: Gods Among Us adds Black Adam to character roster

Jordan Mallory — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:45:00 EST

As if any superhero could exist in a fighting game without his or her perennial antagonist to become embattled against, Shazam's ancient Egyptian arch-enemy, Black Adam, has been revealed as a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us.

As seen in the solitary screenshot above, Black Adam shares Shazam's lightning-bolt motif, which makes sense considering that they were both given their powers by the same wizard, who was also named "Shazam." Additionally, Black Adam has to say "Shazam!" in order to activate his magical powers, which embody aspects of the Egyptian gods Shu, Heru, Amon, Zehuti, Aton and Mehen, or S.H.A.Z.A.M. Comic books, everybody.

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Injustice: Gods Among Us' latest character reveal is so Raven

Jordan Mallory — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EST

News of a new costumed adventurer confirmed as an Injustice: Gods Among Us combatant feels like a semi-daily occurrence lately -- a trend that continues with this morning's affirmation of Raven as a playable character in NetherRealm Studios' new fighter.

As seen in her debut trailer (once available here, since vanished), Raven's abilities are just as floaty and mystical as one would expect, with quick, swiping melee attacks and what appears to be an alternate/evil stance with limited teleportation capabilities. Raven's big, scary, four-eyed father also makes a brief appearance during her fittingly insane super, and if you're familiar enough with her story to know his name, you're also familiar enough to be upset about her outfit and chin.

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Doomsday confirmed for Injustice, Superman suddenly remembers a bunch of stuff he needs to go do

Jordan Mallory — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EST

Doomsday, the ancient, artificially engineered monstrosity responsible for the "death" of Superman (among hundreds of thousands of others) has been confirmed as a playable character in NetherRealm Studio's forthcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Previously, Doomsday was spotted in the background of Superman's Fortress of Solitude stage, though his status as an actual character remained ambiguous. As seen in the video above, Doomsday's main ability appears to be getting completely stomped on by ~~Captain Marvel~~ Shazam, at least until Doomsday punches him through the entire planet and back, quite literally.

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Injustice: Gods Among Us has a Killer Croc in its sewers

Jordan Mallory — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:45:00 EST

NetherRealm Studios creative director Ed Boon has revealed Killer Croc as the latest confirmed addition to Injustice: Gods Among Us' roster of playable heroes and villains. No further details have been released aside from the above screenshot, though we feel safe in assuming that Croc will fall into Injustice's stable of power-oriented characters, rather than its gadget-focused cast.

Riddler and Penguin, two additional previously unannounced characters, are also seen in the above screenshot, though whether they themselves are playable remains to be seen -- it's possible that they are part of that stage's interactive elements.

We have a special place in our hearts for good ol' Croc, which you can discover after the break.

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Mew-Genics to hoard over 12 sextillion cats

Mike Suszek — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:30:00 EST

Team Meat's latest teaser for Mew-Genics is all about the game's "cast of cats," in that it features over 12,207,031,250,000,000,000,000 felines. The developer blog explains that the enormous number "only applies to how the cat looks, if you include its personality variables that number multiplies by A LOT."

Team Meat added that "ability variables and personal stats" could practically guarantee that you'll never get the same cat twice in the game. Not that we know what that entails, since all we really know about Mew-Genics is that it's "kind of" about cats. Lots of them.

Mew-Genics to hoard over 12 sextillion cats originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The fourth Mew-Genics character likes cats more than you

Mike Suszek — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:00:00 EST

Tracy, the fourth character Team Meat revealed for its upcoming game Mew-Genics, was described as a girl that "likes cats... but isn't a big fan of you." Tracy's teaser image showed the wall of cages she seemed to keep her cats in, hopefully insinuating that she's a vet and not a hoarder.

Team Meat unveiled a few characters over the past few weeks for its "game about cats," including Frank (who has head problems), Mr. Tinkles and Dr. Beanies. Another character reveal is planned for next Caturday.

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