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Emily first up Thursday night Finn calm through party celebrating then launch their new free-to-play mobile role-playing game called hello hero this will soon be available on iOS Android and Facebook with cross-platform multiplayer capabilities hundreds of hero characters multiple gameplay modes great 3d graphics and even community boss battles on the show of floor we found plenty of fun mobile tablet stuff as well at the Wacom booth I really wanted to try out the new Bluetooth pen that they made for iPads and gathers its own pressure sensitivity data within the pen and then communicates that to certain drawing apps via Bluetooth it's a huge departure from Wacom normal electromagnetic digitizer built into the screen of their high-end syntek products really it's kind of a hack built for the iPad and unfortunately it didn't even work at Comic Con on the other hand behind that blacken was also showing their new Cintiq companion Windows 8 tablet which worked beautifully the Cintiq companion they had there was running a Core i7 processor with Windows 8 and a full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite it also had 8 gigs of RAM for all those high-end programs this tablet is similar to the surface pro and that it has pressure-sensitive electromagnetic digitizer from Wacom built in the screen the Wacom spurgeon is much more accurate supports twice as many pressure levels and even supports stylus tilt sensitivity stylus tilts input is important for applications like Corel Painter which can simulate natural media such as directional air brushes the tablet is quite a bit larger than others but that's a good thing because it would be a good area to work with you've also got customizable shortcut keys on the side you can program those for things like controlling brush size or accessing modifier keys of course you can plug-in larger monitor as well and the tablet comes with a detachable plastic stand in a nice soft case with pockets withstand the stylus box the tablet and a wireless bluetooth keyboard overall this Wacom Cintiq companion really looks like the mobile tablet for any kind of digital artists especially comic book artists another game being shown off at Comic Con was pigfish this is a new game for iOS and Android which seems to have very simple OneTouch controls we basically make a pig fish swim through sewers and to collect power-ups there was a Verizon booth at comic-con as well their most popular product there was the Spiro the sphere was a remote-controlled ball that changes colors and rolls around but you control it from a tablet app I thought this would be interesting to see but the Android app just would not work while I was there there were also a few motion comic apps at comic-con one was essentially a comic-book converted into something like a movie where the still images move around the screen with occasional animation as well as voiceover for dialogue another called comixology doesn't have the audio but works with a wider range of comic books for most it simply animates to the next frame or scene but some comics were reprogrammed so that speech bubbles appear as layers in the order that you should read them Intel had a huge booth filled with Intel powered tablets and PCs for people to play games on many were touchscreen tablets running Windows 8 with a few Android powered tablets as well we also found a new social networking app called Bravo which allows you to post videos and audio messages but people can also comment with a video an audio replies overall tablet certainly seemed to be the direction for mobile technology these days even in the comic book scene sure to give this video a thumbs up and thanks for watching