Today, digital comics platform ComiXology announced that the first installment of a four-issue digital preview of the "Hawken" is now available. While the full hardcover release of "Hawken: Genesis" won't be available until March of next year, the preview will offer the first glimpse of some of the backstory for Adhesive's upcoming free-to-play mech shooter--along with an invite to join the closed beta.
Earlier this year, we spoke with Transmedia producer Joe LeFavi about the 2013 comic release with comics publisher Archaia, where he summed up some of the mythology being built out in the upcoming hardcover:
A few hundred years into the future, big business has propelled Mankind to expand across the galaxy. Yet for the first time in history, the government permits three corporations to privately terraform and colonize an entire planet. Just imagine it. An entire planet owned and governed by corporate interests. On this planet, we watch...
Earlier this year, we spoke with Transmedia producer Joe LeFavi about the 2013 comic release with comics publisher Archaia, where he summed up some of the mythology being built out in the upcoming hardcover:
A few hundred years into the future, big business has propelled Mankind to expand across the galaxy. Yet for the first time in history, the government permits three corporations to privately terraform and colonize an entire planet. Just imagine it. An entire planet owned and governed by corporate interests. On this planet, we watch...
- 11/14/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Up until this point, Adhesive Games' mech combat Fps Hawken has dazzled us with its Unreal-powered visuals, realizing detailed, ravaged cityscapes. But in the months we've been teased with the playgrounds where you and your mech will be blasting enemies to bits, there haven't been all that many details about the story about the world of the game. Transmedia producer Joe LeFavi is hoping to change that with the upcoming release of an original graphic novel set in the Hawken universe from comic publisher Archaia. LeFavi, who's with transmedia company Quixotic Transmedia (the folks who try to figure out how to get movies into games, games into comics, and so on), is overseeing the production of the graphic novel which will feature multiple artists including Adhesive Games co-founder, Khang Le.
While its release is about a year out, we got a few questions over to LeFavi by e-mail recently during...
While its release is about a year out, we got a few questions over to LeFavi by e-mail recently during...
- 4/20/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Archaia has announced the full creative team for its Hawken graphic novel. The anthology will include a host of artists to capture different episodes in the book, which is written by Jeremy Barlow. Alongside the previously-announced illustrators Moritat and Stefano Gaudiano will be work by Federico Dallocchio, Nathan Fox, Michael Gaydos, Bagus Hutomo, Christopher Moeller, Alex Sanchez, Brian Thies, Greg Tocchini and Francisco Ruiz Velasco. The book will chart the three decade-long rise and fall of the post-apocalyptic civilisation portrayed in Meteor Entertainment's forthcoming (more)...
- 4/18/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
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