Ed Boon, Founder of NeverRealm Studios, shared via Twitter today that the next DLC for Injustice: Gods Among Us will be announced later this week.

In his recent twitter post, a clue was given out where he showed a video playing the “FunHouse Pinball Music”. Who could be this next DLC character? We’ll find out later this week.

Check back with us this week as we update you on this latest character that will be joining Injustice.

Johnny Beaver carries a piece of paper with his pinball high scores written on it. He uses it as motivation to top his previous score. It’s also a way to relive his best moments.

Beaver, 32, is part of a quietly growing the pinball scene in Corvallis. Pinball lovers are slowly expanding the availability of pinball machines in town. And they want bargoers who are focused more on beer instead of the game to join their community.

The Northwest far surpasses other regions in number of pinball locations, according to international machine tracker pinballmap.com. For example, Portland has 246 pinball locations, Seattle has 102 and Eugene is listed with 13, but insiders say there are far more.

Corvallis has five. Beaver and Brian Morrissette, the 18-year-old godfather of pinball in Corvallis, struggled to name even that many.

“(Pinball is) a growing renaissance in America, especially in the Northwest,” Morrissette said.

Contributing to the movement are men in their 30s and 40s who want to relive the game they grew up playing. In the past two years, Morrissette said, the number of collectors in town has at least doubled.

Jeff Obermann, 43, is one of them. He thought his grandparents having a pinball machine in their basement was the coolest thing in the world. He resolved that when he grew up, he would own pinball machines.


Play every pinball game Corvallis has to offer with this interactive Corvallis map. See what each location has to offer by viewing Corvallis pinball map in a larger map.

Now, at least 10 machines are practically stacked on top of each other in his kitchen.

Ben Metzger, 31, is hoping to provide people of all ages the same thrill he gets when he plays pinball. His restaurant and arcade, The Dam, is scheduled to open sometime this fall and will showcase at least a dozen 1970s and 80s era pinball machines, some rare.

Metzger is already building his collection with the help of Morrissette. Metzger keeps three in his future kitchen, where he plays his favorite machine -- Gottlieb’s 1981 Mars God of War -- because the dark basement workshop scares him.

He knows The Dam will make more money from beer sales than 25 cent pinball games, but games like the vintage Panthera 2 are converting guys like Beaver into a zealous community of pinballers.

-- Emiko Bledsoe, Parkrose High School sophomore

See the video here 

The folks at Farsight are at it again looking to crowd-fund another table for their Pinball Arcade series available on most platforms including iOS, PS3, Xbox and Wii. 

With licensing fee's sky-high, Farsight is looking for pinball fans to foot the bill for their next product. Take a look and see if their story is compelling enough to entice you into throwing down a few quarters in support of bringing T2 Judgment Day pinball to your living room.

From the Kickstarter page:

Here at FarSight Studios, we have over 20 years of experience developing video games on consoles, phones and tablets. We are also pinball fanatics. For the last seven years, we’ve been developing modern videogame recreations of classic pinball tables. We have licenses from the original manufacturers of the tables (Bally, Gottlieb, Stern and Williams) to do this. Our latest project is called the Pinball Arcade and is currently available on a wide variety of platforms: the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Ouya, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS Vita and Mac, with versions coming soon for the PC, Nintendo Wii U, and PlayStation 4. Check us out at www.pinballarcade.com.

Read more via kickstarter

Despite bankruptcy of publisher Crave Entertainment, developer FarSight is still promising that new tables will eventually make their way to the XBLA game The Pinball Arcade.

Regardless of those issues, FarSight has released a new trailer for an upcoming table called Bally's Champion Pub: 

Although other tables still have not been released yet, you can still see the videos of the Centaur and Pinbot and the White Water teaser trailer. 

There's still no official word on when these will actually hit XBLA.


Via http://www.trueachievements.com/n13755/new-pinball-arcade-dlc-table-unveiled.htm

The Android-powered OUYA console found its way to some lucky players, ourselves included.  With the tiny device ready to entertain, we fired up and captured footage of Star Trek: The Next Generation for The Pinball Arcade. Have to admit that it's quite impressive, with music from the TV series, along with iconic images of characters and familiar-looking ships.  Watch the video and let us know if you think it's better than Star Wars Pinball.

Via http://www.gametrailers.com/mobile-apps/53955/the-pinball-arcade-star-trek-the-next-generation-ouya-gameplay