Lion Rampart has announced a late summer/early fall U.S. release of game designer Wolfgang Kramer's newest game, Vampire Queen , as well as two additional games.

In the wake of Civil War II , which fractured the Marvel Universe, the Champions will rise.

Later this month, Gale Force Nine will launch its new Organized Play Seasons program to promote league play of its Tanks tabletop wargame.

VIZ Media announced several new manga acquisitions during its official panel at Anime Expo.

KaBOOM! will release Roger Langridge’s Abigail and the Snowman.

The English language version of the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya expansions for Bushiroad’s Weiss Schwarz trading card game will release this fall.

Yen Press revealed five new manga licenses and a related light novel at Anime Expo over the 4th of July weekend, as well as a new original graphic novel.

This week, Thorne looks at the economics of pre-release events.

This week’s home entertainment releases won’t overshadow the fireworks, but there are some items of interest including Stephen Chow’s wild Hong Kong fantasy/comedy The Mermaid , a visually stunning Brazilian animated feature, the latest season of the marvelously Machiavellian political drama House of Cards , reasonably-priced collections of The Real Ghostbusters , and a bevy of interesting anime offerings led by the only Studio Ghibli film that has never been released here before and the steampunk sci-fi epic The Empire of Corpses.

Pixar’s Finding Dory is a monster hit here in North America, where it has earned over $380 million in just 18 days and topped the box office for three weeks in a row.

Here's a preview of Bob's Burgers: Pan Fried TP , published by Dynamite Entertainment.

Netflix has begun principal photography on Death Note.