Dark Horse Wants to Turn Its Comic Book Stars Into Video Game Heroes

I mean , DC ’s gotWarner Bros. ’ gaming studio . Marvel went big to getSpider - ManandAvengers gamesout . So it kind of makes gumption that Dark Horse want a piece of the pixelated pie for its bevy of comics licenses — there ’s a lot of voltage .

Announced via wardrobe sacking today , Dark Horse has formed Dark Horse Games , a gaming and digital series partitioning that will work with third - company developers in both the gaming and animation space to leverage its comic book properties , which admit 415 IPs . Everything fromHellboyand Sin City toUsagi Yojimboand theUmbrella Academymay be used to make video recording games , webtoons , and animated series . The segmentation ’s current focus will be knead “ with some of the human race ’s top play studio ” to create major “ AAA”-scale ( the game industry ’s answer to adult - ticket , smash hit deed of conveyance ) games based on its properties for multiple play platforms , from consoles to PC , to mobile and streaming devices . Beyond that , the division ’s first - party team will plunge into Dark Horse ’s back catalog to review “ honest-to-goodness and less naturalized informatics as gambling - first informatics . ”

But as mentioned , despite the name , Dark Horse Games wo n’t just focus on gage adaptations of the publishing company ’s comics . The press release says that the air division is put to work with “ content production studios ” to evolve webtoons and anime serial publication , with some unheralded titles already in production . It ’s a move that makes sense — like we said , the biggest publishers in the industry are already leverage that position ( or their place in wider corporate conglomerates , anotherequally distressing trend ) to make grow their comic creations into transmedia properties . The comics industry has spent decades slowly transforming from one of publishers make comics , to publishers creating idea that set about as comics that theycan then rick intomovies , shows , liven series , and now games further down the line . Dark Horse might as well seek to get its own place at that board too .

Hellboy already got a head start in Injustice 2.