I’m always thrilled to have more footage for Man of Steel starring Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman. Here today we have the latest TV spots for the Warner Brothers Pictures Superman reboot and an epic new poster complete with flight.

TV Spot: Man of Steel – #4

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TV Spot: Man of Steel – UK Spot

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Hooray for new footage! Let’s watch those again!

Man of Steel starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Julia Ormond, and Russell Crowe is slated to hit theaters June 14th.

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You’ve watched the show. Now play the game. Great news, Defiance fans: our partners at Syfy have provided us with a standard PC-edition of Defiance the game, for one lucky SciFiMafia.com reader. Join the futuristic online open-world shooter where thousands of players scour a transformed Earth competing for alien technology. Hunt alone or with others as you improve your skills and level up, unlocking powerful weapons that will help you survive the massive battles that await.

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KEY FEATURES

• Futuristic open-world shooter
• Massive co-op boss battles
• Advanced human and alien weaponry
• Fierce Shadow War multiplayer
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You know you want this. Thanks to Syfy for this cool giveaway. Follow @DefianceWorld on Twitter for all things Defiance, both game and show, but keep it right here for the game giveaway, and good luck!

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To mark the release of the Season 5 box-set and Seasons 1-5 box-set being released in the UK today

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Didn’t have to wait long, did we?

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As a film student at Chapman University, DC Comics scribe Kyle Higgins did his thesis in the form of a short film titled The League, featuring unionized superheroes fighting crime in 1960s Chicago.

This half-hour short transcended being a graduation requirement as it garnered attention from both of the big two - Marvel and DC - who were interested in Kyle's take on the comics side of the genre.

Joining a growing fraternity of filmmakers turned comic writers, Higgins has quickly made a name for himself writing for characters such as Captain America, Deathstroke, Batman and, of course, the original Robin, Dick Grayson, now known as Nightwing.

While making a stop in the Midwest to attend Chicago's Comic and Entertainment Expo, Higgins is also returning to his old stomping grounds.

Chicagoland native Kyle took some time to talk with us about his past, present and future as a writer in the Batman Universe sandbox.

As a New York Times bestselling author with the graphic novel Batman: Gates of Gotham, Kyle has had the chance to shape current readers' views of the storied city. So we began by asking if his take on Gotham was influenced by his home town?

"That's an interesting question because when we were doing Gates of Gotham and we were settling on an era of the city to explore, I'm a big fan of Devil in the White City, which is the Erik Larson book about the world's fair and turn of the century Chicago, so I was essentially doing my take on that Gotham City," says Kyle

"The building of the first skyscraper in America and the rise of the modern city through the prism of Gotham, that's the whole crux of the book. So I guess you could say the answer is: A lot."

Currently writing Nightwing since its New 52 relaunch, Kyle takes the former Boy Wonder out of Gotham and gives him a city of his own to protect. One the writer is familiar with: "And now, moving Nightwing literally to Chicago, [artist] Brett [Booth] and I are doing some things stylistically that are a little different but we're still trying to ground it in the real place. As you'll see in issue 20, there's a nice little scene on the top of the Congress Hotel that people should recognize.

"My editor and I were in agreement that a real city was inherently more interesting than something made up," he explained when discussing the decision to move the character away from the Bat-family.

"There are notable exceptions - Gotham and Metropolis - that are kind of their own and have their own personalities now, but they've also been developed over the course of sixty plus years."

But Chicago wasn't the first choice: "When we talked about where to move him to, we first talked about New York. But New York is used so frequently and you associate it so closely with Marvel and Spider-Man and Daredevil that I wanted to do something different so I suggested Chicago. It made sense when trying to pick a location for him going forward. Plus, I wanted to see him surf on L-trains."

But before the big move, Kyle and team were faced with the daunting task of standing out in a world dominated by the Bat: "That's something we were up against. The first nine issues of the series were tied into Batman pretty tightly with the Court of Owls story and the back-story of the Court and Dick Grayson's association with the Court. It was definitely a balancing act.

"We're trying to build a world for Dick that was inherent to him and wasn't dependant on Batman. The circus was the most significant decision we made for the book that was unique to Dick Grayson but even that was touched by the Court of Owls."

Not that being tied to Batman writer Scott Snyder is a bad thing, but: "That's one of the really exciting things right now with moving him to Chicago and him being on his own. He's not involved in any crossovers or anything in the Batman books. That's not to say those relationships aren't there or that he won't interact with characters but it's definitely the creation of his world in a physical place that's different from Gotham."

And with a new place comes new characters: "I'm creating them all. The Prankster is formerly a Superman villain that we've reinvented in the new 52 but will hopefully be a Nightwing villain going forward."

As for life after - or during - comics, is there any interest for the young writer to return to his motion picture roots or maybe taking on television writing or directing?

"All of the above! I came to comics through film and directing and that's my first love," he says, with the smile on his face proving that statement true.

"I've been making movies since I was seven years old. That's something I definitely want to get back into whether they're comic-specific or not.

"I have a couple of things right now that I'm working on that I'm going to do as a creator-owned comic and in the back of my mind I'm thinking this would be a really cool movie or long-form web series."

Kyle is currently writing Nightwing and will soon be adding Batman Beyond to his duties at DC. His previous works include the award-winning Batman: Gates of Gotham, Marvel's Squadron Supreme and the film that started it all, The League - which you can check out the trailer for here.

Thanks to Kyle for his time and the staff at DC for setting everything up.

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And so it goes on Game of Thrones. Bad news, conspiracies, intrigue, torture, visions, and a big giant icy wall. It’s all good, though, on this side of the screen. To prep for this week’s new episode we have the excellent standard study guides of recap-through-clips, an “Inside the Episode” discussion of last week’s episode with co-showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and a TV spot for what’s to come in the new episode.

Featurette: Game Of Thrones – Season 3: Recap #6

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Featurette: Game of Thrones – Season 3: Inside the Episode #6

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TV Spot: Game Of Thrones – Season 3: Episode #7

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Only four more episodes this year…

Game of Thrones Season 3, starring Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Richard Madden, Jack Gleeson, Michelle Fairley, Natalie Dormer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Charles Dance, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams, airs Sundays at 9/8c on HBO.