What's on the rise

The last few years have seen a surge in comic book heroes (and villans) on the big screen, translating across to gaming formats in doing so. The very next outing looks like it's going to belong to one cool customer - The Silver Surfer.

2K Games and Seven Studios are bringing Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer to the Wii on June 15th 2007, planning of course to link up with the movie release. It will also be released across most other formats, but as usual the Wii version will operate differently and make use of the Wii's special features and abilities.

Set in a third person action setting, we await the results of yet another movie licence with baited breath. Will it soar, or bomb? One thing's for sure - Dr Doom brings a certain darkness to any comic book based video game that's more than welcome. We'll report more on this one as we get it.