The Need for Videogame Literacies
An average high school student learns the painful answer to the question of why there are no real superheroes in Kick-Ass, a completely new kind of comic book movie.
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Reminding us that the movie based on Mark Millar’s award-winning comic book Kick-Ass has hit cinemas is one of the few good things to come from this trailer for the PlayStation Network video game.
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The characters from the movie based off of Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass completely kick arse in this trailer for WHA Entertainment’s video game adaptation for the iPhone and PlayStation Network, and somehow that doesn’t seem right.
The movie based on the Mark Millar created comic book series Kick-Ass is getting its own adaptation in the form of a video game for the PlayStation Network and iPhone. It will be simply Kick-Ass.