Dakan had brought in his grad school buddy, a classics scholar named Jack Emmert, to build a game featuring the science fiction of comic-book superheroes-without paying license fees for established characters like Batman or Spider-Man.
The moments where Artyom has to fend off a monster that has pinned him to the ground, or pluck a mutant spider from the glass of his gasmask, are satisfyingly visceral.
And, unless you're Spider-Man (or Lynn Hill, the first person to free climb El Cap), you have to resort to aid to ascend it.
From his home outside Toledo, Ohio, Winnie is constantly traveling to conventions, looking for obscure items on the Internet or swapping stories, and occasionally Spider-Man collectibles, with his fellow collectors.
Taymor's lawsuit sought half of all profits derived from the sale, license, transfer or lease of any rights in the original "Spider-Man" book along with a permanent ban of the use of her name or likeness in connection with a documentary film that was made of the birth of the musical without her written consent.
Few mainstream audiences knew or cared that Batman is from DC Comics and Spider-Man is from Marvel.
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Licensing fees for companies attempting to promote home-grown intellectual property--games without Spider-Man, for instance, or NFL teams--may drop down to zero.
If viewers were wanting a corrective to the jumpsuit antics of The Avengers, or the noodling high-school angst of The Amazing Spider-Man, then rest assured that Batman delivers in spades.
If you love comics or pure action, there's no excuse for not playing Spider-Man.
Asked if the supplemental index is getting bigger, he responds that "new pages are constantly being added, " but that the "algorithmic nature" of Google's spider makes it hard to measure the index's size or how fast it's growing.
There's plenty on offer for the more traditional naturalist too with a panel of experts on hand to help identify that fearsome spider you've cornered in a matchbox, the interesting rock or fossil you picked up on the beach, or potential meteorite that's been sitting on the mantle piece.
Or maybe they can be found strumming and tooting away in rooms behind and under the stage ("Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark" and "Jersey Boys, " respectively).
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