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56-679: The Earth has fallen under siege by sinister forces led by Ultimus . Agents of S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Reserve for Interdimensional Key Events) have been called to assemble squads of heroes and villains to combat Ultimus' legions, that includes mind-controlled versions of the heroes and villains (existing in alternate universes), before Earth falls under Ultimus' control. In addition to this main storyline, special sub-plot events are also released, loosely based on recent Marvel Cinematic Universe films that have been released, starting with Avengers: Infinity War . Marvel Strike Force allows players to collect Marvel Universe characters from both

112-670: A Bogeyman to frighten small children, his name forevermore "unspoken". He was later recovered by the Alpha Primitives , who cared for their fallen king. Realizing his mistake, the Unspoken plotted to return and reclaim his throne, cultivating the Xerogen Crystals, only for Attilan to rise into the sky. Cheated of his redemption and later learning of the silent war between the Inhumans and United States of America,

168-429: A French language audience. The site grew steadily and launched its own iPhone app as well as providing syndicated content to several third party magazines. In August 2010 the site merged with number two in the market, JMobil and relaunched with a new design, new features and coverage of a wider number of platforms including Android. In October 2018, Steel Media Ltd undertook a major redesign of Pocket Gamer and unveiled

224-427: A civil war against Kronos. He succeeds in re-materializing and discovers a Kree base on the planet Uranus . Upon destroying Sentry 213 who was stationed there, Uranos uses the weapons there in an attempt to return to Earth and gain revenge on Kronos. Uranos encounters a Kree Armada. After the ship is destroyed, Uranos and the survivors with him resettle on Titan and die during another civil war. It turns out that

280-573: A duel by the heir to the throne, a young Blackagar Boltagon. Despite being by far the strongest of the Inhumans, moving the Slave Engine had weakened the King which led to his defeat at the hands of Blackagar and his friends. His final stipulation was that his deeds be remembered, but Black Bolt had a crueler fate in mind: the King, his deeds, and the Slave Engine itself, were written out of Inhuman history. From that day on, he would be remembered only as

336-646: A healing factor. Ultragirl is a member of Captain America 's Secret Avengers during the superhero civil war . She later joins the superhero training program the Initiative and enters a romantic relationship with Justice . She and Thor Girl become the Initiative heroes assigned to protect Georgia , with Carol Danvers / Ms. Marvel having been so impressed by Ultragirl's development that Danvers bequeaths Ultragirl her former Ms. Marvel costume. During

392-695: A member of the race known as the Eternals in the Marvel Universe . The character, created by Jim Starlin , first appeared in Captain Marvel #29 (November 1973). The character also appears in back-up stories in What If? #24 ("The First Eternals", December 1980), and 26-27 ("Untold Tales Of The Marvel Universe: Outpost On Uranus", April–July 1981). Uranos is Kronos 's brother and was banished from Earth along with his followers, after losing

448-665: A new look for the site, its first refresh in many years. At this point the site changed to a .com domain, to reflect the site's growing international appeal, from its previous .co.uk homepage. Its publisher Steel Media was acquired by Enthusiast Gaming in 2019. Pocket Gamer has been listed as one of the top 100 websites by the Guardian newspaper two years running (2009 and 2010) as well as being named in The Sunday Times newspaper's Top 5 Websites for Gaming (2010). The British newspaper The Guardian at one time syndicated

504-686: A portal to Ard-Con's people and apologized to him. This proved to be successful, however, upon arriving to his home, he was approached by the Supreme Intelligence who informed Ard-Con that he was the last surviving Kree Eternal. Then Ultimus, under the order of the Supremor, joined the Starforce . He, along with rest of the team, were sent to capture the Avengers , since they had infiltrated Kree-Lar. They were successful in capturing

560-559: A way to kill time. Ev Teel Urizen is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . It was created by writer Mike Carey . Ev Teel Urizen first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #197 (May 2007). Urizen is a mummudrai, an energy-based mental parasite. Urizen existed harmlessly dormant in its host, the Shi'ar Ul'var Urizen, until Shi'ar scientists extracted it to use as

616-511: Is a video game website and former print magazine that focuses on mobile, portable and handheld games. It was launched in 2005 by Steel Media Limited. The publication covers portable and mobile gaming formats, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Nintendo Switch and others. Steel Media has created many brand spin-offs, including the industry-facing PocketGamer.biz site and a series of conferences called Pocket Gamer Connects. Launched in April 2005 with

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672-541: Is here that the Unspoken starts looking for Terrigen Crystals in order to replenish his powers. Despite the intervention of Medusa and Gorgon , the Unspoken defeated them and reclaimed the throne. The newly transformed Inhumans later helped the Inhuman Royal Family to fight the Unspoken managing to steal the Terrigen Crystals from him. Upon his defeat and being deprived of the Terrigen Crystals,

728-541: Is known as Stand-Off . She is a member of the Force Warriors, a group of psionic mutants who protect "Fortress X", the last known mutant stronghold, by collectively channeling their powers to generate and reinforce a massive psionic shield. Unuscione appears in X-Men: The Animated Series as a devoted and passionate member of Magneto 's Acolytes and resident of Genosha . Uranos is

784-631: The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards, and for "Strategy/Simulation" at the 2020 Webby Awards . Ultimus (comics) Ultimaton , also known as Weapon XV , is a living weapon created by the anti-mutant supersoldier program Weapon Plus . The character was created by Grant Morrison and Chris Bachalo , first appeared in New X-Men #143 (August 2003). Ultimaton escapes from the Weapon Plus facilities, fights

840-704: The Secret Invasion , the Skrull Dum Dum Dugan activates all the sleeper agents in the Initiative, causing Ultragirl and Thor Girl to fight each other out of suspicion. When the Skrull Kill Krew arrives on the scene, 3-D Man confirms Thor Girl is a Skrull, and he and Gravity kill her with her own hammer. She later is forced to give up the Ms. Marvel costume after an attorney informs her that its intellectual property rights are owned by

896-608: The Children of the Vault . Still hidden, Urizen risked exposure to protect Regan during a subsequent conflict with the villain Pandemic. Regan eventually detected Urizen and expelled it from her mind. Urizen offered to bond with the powerful mutant Cable to fight Hecatomb. Suspicious of Urizen's motives, Cable initially refused; he reluctantly agreed only after Hecatomb attacked Earth and proved as powerful as Urizen had warned. Hecatomb

952-738: The Tapwave Zodiac . The Sony PSP was added to the site soon after. When the Apple iPhone arrived in June 2007, followed by the subsequent launches of the iPod Touch in September 2007 and the App Store in July 2008, it grew to increasingly dominate the editorial agenda. The site subsequently added Nintendo 3DS , PlayStation Vita , Android , BlackBerry , Windows Phone 7 , MeeGo and Palm to

1008-574: The Young Avengers battle the parasitic Mother. Union Jack will make a reappearance as a member in the new UK marvel superhero team The Union. The Unspoken is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . He is the cousin of Blackagar Boltagon (Black Bolt) , and was once the king of all Inhumans before he was forced into exile. The Unspoken first appeared in The Mighty Avengers #27 and

1064-603: The Alpha Primitives to allow the Unspoken to return to his cave to live out the rest of his days. During the Inhumanity storyline, the Unspoken resurfaced and arrived at New Attilan. Due to Black Bolt missing at the time, the Unspoken proposed to Medusa and tried to cover for his missing brother. Medusa refused the Unspoken's offer and had him incarcerated in the dungeon. The Unspoken soon broke free from his imprisonment and headed to New Attilan's catacombs. It

1120-630: The Arena, Blitz, Cosmic Crucible, and Alliance War battles in which the AI controls a player-created team. All the player's selected characters must survive in order to earn all three stars available for the Stage, which will enable Auto-Win for that Stage, which allows the player to earn resources for that Stage without going through a full battle. Enemy squad members will generally have glowing red eyes, indicating their control by Ultimus. Game Informer criticised

1176-585: The Avengers, at this time temporarily under the control of the villainous Norman Osborn . After saving Justice from the deranged Thor clone Ragnarok , Ultragirl leaves the Initiative to join Justice's revamped New Warriors team. Following two brief appearances, Ultragirl took part in the Fear Itself storyline when she teamed with the genuine Thor Girl and confronted Prodigy . She later helped

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1232-636: The Avengers, however, the current rulers of the Kree, Ael-Dan and Dar-Benn, decided to execute both teams by locking them into a force field. Thankfully, Deathbird killed the emperors, which allowed the Supreme Intelligence to regain control of the Kree Empire. He then sent the team against the Shi'ar as a retaliation against his attempted assassination by the Shi'ar Empire. They teleported into

1288-702: The Exclusion. When the Progenitor declares that all will be judged, Uranos and Druig talk about it as Uranos begs Druig to let him out. At the time when Druig plans to bring the Hex into the Uni-Mind, he declined Uranos' demands to let him out. When the X-Men's telepaths breach the Uni-Mind, Druig has no choice but to release Uranos. After defeating Ikaris and Gilgamesh, Uranos is defeated by Magneto and Storm. Following

1344-745: The Inhumans, and U.S. Agent . The former recognized the Unspoken and advised that they call all the Avengers teams (consisting of the Mighty Avengers , the New Avengers , the Young Avengers , the Avengers Resistance , and even the Dark Avengers ) to stop him. Unfortunately, even the joint forces of the New Avengers, Avengers Resistance and Mighty Avengers failed to stem the tide. Most of their force were mutated by

1400-546: The Kree Eternals as deities and soon all Kree Eternals left Earth except Ard-Con who stayed on Earth for a millennium, but was then imprisoned by the Deviant , Tantalus. He also encountered Odin once, claiming that his name brought back memories, but also thought that Odin had died. He was then accidentally freed by Thor when the latter used Mjolnir to turn into Donald Blake. Once free, he started wreaking havoc across

1456-500: The Progenitor's defeat, Uranos gets Druig as a cellmate as he plans to show him something that can be done in the next thousand years. As he beats up Druig, Uranos is visited by Zuras who tells him that his gifts will be used for an hour by the Arakki as part of a peace treaty with them and that Uranos will be briefly released to them during the same duration to serve them. Uranos agrees to the terms. Then he goes back to beating up Druig as

1512-409: The Shi'ar palace with Ultimus dispatching Earthquake and attacking Lilandra , however, Starfox distracted Ultimus long enough for Lilandra to strike Ultimus back. After being captured, they were sentenced to death by the Shi'ar, but things became complicated as it was revealed that the Shi'ar counselor Araki was replaced by a Skrull . Ultimus was released by Lilandra under her order to report about

1568-714: The Skrulls' plans. The Starforce was then integrated within the Imperial Guards and under the orders of Deathbird they attacked Quasar with his allies for their intrusion in Shi'ar space. After the Kree regained their autonomy, all of the Starforce members became defectors. In What If? Avengers Lost the Kree-Shi'ar War , this version of Ultimus fought against the Avengers and the Imperial Guards, but

1624-559: The Ultra Living Brain creates a robotic avatar based on him to interact with the world due to being immobile. Ultragirl ( Suzanna Sherman , or Tsu-Zana ) is an American comic book superhero created by Barbara Kesel and Leonard Kirk , who first appeared in Ultragirl #1 (November 1996). As one critic described, "She was a clever … modern riff on Supergirl, basically 'What would Supergirl be like if she debuted in

1680-520: The Unspoken decided to change his plans and unearth the Slave Engine using it to conquer Earth, by transforming all humans on the planet into Alpha Primitives. In the 21st century, the Unspoken was detected in Tibet. G.R.A.M.P.A. interpreted this as a possible alliance between communist China and the Inhumans but were unable to identify the Unspoken. Therefore, they called in Quicksilver , an expert on

1736-625: The Unspoken was reimprisoned in the dungeon. The Unspoken is the living embodiment of Terrigenesis itself. He is capable of altering his form in any way he desires, and can give himself a wide number of abilities, such as mass manipulation and energy construct manifestation. To maintain his powers, he needs to absorb Terrigen Crystals. Carmella Unuscione is a mutant , a member of Magneto 's Acolytes . The character, created by Scott Lobdell and Brandon Peterson , first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #298 (March 1993). The character has

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1792-533: The Uranos that was on Titan was just a patchwork clone while the real one is imprisoned in the Exclusion. As the Prime Eternal upon being revived, Uranos' grandnephew Thanos visited him where he received an imprint key that would grant him access to his armories. At some point in the past, Uranos and Druig met Odin where they talk about the principle of Excess Deviation that involved having to contend with

1848-728: The X-Men and is destroyed. He is later resurrected to guard a child clone of Apocalypse . Ultimus (Ard-Con) was created by Gerry Conway and John Buscema , making his debut in Thor #209 as Demon Druid, while he made his debut as Ultimus in Wonder Man #7. The Kree known as Ard-Con was a member of the Kree Eternal sub-race created by the Celestials . He with the other Kree Eternals travelled through space, eventually, coming across Earth 4000 years ago. The Celts of Earth mistook

1904-603: The Xerogen Mists, before the Wasp arrived. They both dueled each other at massive sizes. Wasp called him pathetic, for wallowing in his own misery for his mistakes and not learning to move on. The Unspoken was defeated when the chronal ray on board the Slave Engine that accelerated the growth of the Xerogen crystals was used against him, aging him to the point where he was too weak to carry on fighting. The heroes then permitted

1960-605: The Year" at the SXSW Gaming Awards , and won the People's Voice Award for "Games" in the "Video" category of the 2019 Webby Awards , whereas its other nomination was for "Strategy/Simulation Game" under the "Games" category. Google Play awarded it as the best breakthrough game of 2019, which is for overall design, user experience, engagement and retention, and strong growth. The game was also nominated for "Best Live Ops" at

2016-725: The ability to generate a tangible field composed of bioelectrical-charged psionic energy around herself, forming an exoskeleton . She is portrayed as one of the more fanatical and violent members of the Acolytes, who often come into conflict with the X-Men . When Avalon , the Acolytes' base of operations, is destroyed, she uses her power to protect her teammates and the X-Man Cyclops . The former enemies cooperate to survive without resources while Professor X and Amelia Voght struggle to find their teammates' whereabouts. Unuscione and

2072-474: The basis for a superweapon, Hecatomb, designed to consume the minds of a planet's entire population. The Shi'ar lost control of Hecatomb and it pursued Urizen, which it identified as part of itself. Detecting Charles Xavier's psychic energy on Earth, Urizen traveled through space for centuries to reach him, followed by Hecatomb. On Earth, Urizen entered the mind of the comatose Regan Wyngarde , and remained with her after she regained consciousness and helped defeat

2128-445: The characters' moves, they are purely cosmetic. The main game modes are Arena, Blitz, Raids, Alliance War, Real Time Arena, Cosmic Crucible, Alliance War, Campaign, Challenges, Dark Dimension, Scourges, and Sagas. The first four of those have their own currencies that can be spent on character shards or items. All modes are played versus a computer-controlled AI , except Real Time Arena where you play against other players; this includes

2184-486: The different mutations and deviations. During the " A.X.E.: Judgment Day " storyline, Druig goes to the Exclusion to enlist Uranos' help in dealing with the Mutant threat. Druig has Uranos unleashed on Arrako where he plans to deal with the mutants there in an hour. He defeated Legion offscreen, punches Magneto through the chest, defeats Cable and Xilo, and shoots Abigail Brand with Cable's gun before returning to

2240-422: The expensive content and numerous bugs, concluding that it "feels designed to frustrate players until they finally cave and spend." Marvel Strike Force generated $ 150 million in sales during its first year of operation (2018) on the iOS and Android platforms. Growth continued modestly to $ 180+ million in sales in 2019, in 2020 with approximately $ 300 million in revenue. The game was nominated for "Mobile Game of

2296-568: The form of shards that are earned by players to unlock and or promote their characters. Shards can either be earned from winning battles or bought from a shop. Players level up their user level by gaining experience by completing daily quests or completing battles. Battles are divided up into rounds, with the character with the highest speed attribute going first. Each team consists of up to five characters (though some AI teams in raids can have far more characters than that) who battle until defeated or reinforcements enter. Battles are turn-based, based on

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2352-426: The game. All players must be in an alliance, so if a player leaves or is kicked from an alliance, the game will assign a new one. Characters usually appear in their attire from the existing comics; a costume currency is available for purchasing attire for certain characters based on their Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances, old comic appearances or other notable media appearances. The attire sets have no bearing on

2408-425: The heroes and villains and generic characters from large organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D. , The Hand and Hydra , and use them to fight in turn-based battles. Similar to the fighting game Marvel: Contest of Champions , characters fall into one of several classes. There are multiple ways to collect characters: some are given to players immediately, whereas others are gained via gameplay or as in-game rewards in

2464-670: The influence of the Eternal. Shadowcat intervened and freed Meggan along with tourists and also allowing Rachel Summers getting some knowledge about his people. Ard-Con then broke into Darkmoor Nuclear Research Facility where he recreated a nuclear facsimile in order to use it at the Stonehenge and finally reunite with his people. However, the Excalibur intervened and stopped Captain Britain from fighting Ard-Con, while Kitty opened

2520-570: The magazine's circulation reached 700,000 copies, with a total audience of 1.5 million when including web and WAP readership, and syndication reviews to Vodafone live! and the Samsung Fun Club. In May 2008, Steel Media Ltd expanded the Pocket Gamer stable with the launch of a b2b-based sister site. PocketGamer.Biz focuses on covering the business of mobile games. Steel Media Ltd also launched Quality Index which tracks review scores of leading mobile games and publishers. PocketGamer.Biz produces quarterly industry reports. Pocket Gamer launched

2576-412: The mid-1990s in the Marvel Universe?'" Suzy Sherman is an aspiring model who, over the course of a few days, grows several inches, develops the physique of a bodybuilder , and acquires superpowers. She discovers that she is a mutant Kree warrior, born Tsu-Zana. She helps the superhero team New Warriors defeat the villain Effex . Her powers include flight, super-strength, multi-spectral vision, and

2632-440: The other Acolytes agree to turn themselves over to government custody, but later escape. Unuscione returns to action with the Acolytes as they attack the X-Mansion following the M-Day . Professor X is placed in the Acolytes' care after he is critically injured by Bishop . Xavier convinces Exodus to disband the Acolytes, and Unuscione and Joanna Cargill move to Utopia . In the alternate Age of X reality, Unuscione

2688-446: The roster of covered formats, although latterly it's concentrated just on iOS and Android, plus the Nintendo Switch in its portable mode. In October 2007, Pocket Gamer launched the Pocket Gamer Guide to Mobile Games magazine, which was first featured by T-Mobile , where it is published bi-monthly in all of their stores in the United Kingdom. It was expected to have a circulation of 150,000 copies. A digital version of Pocket Gamer

2744-497: The speed attribute, where the combatants apply healing and various buffs to their own team and damage and debuffs to the opponent all the while trying to deal the most overall damage and having the last character alive. Players may join alliances that form the main group inside of the game, which can include up to 24 players and be private or open. Alliances allow players to play in raids and wars and to access alliance milestones. These alliances can be created by any player or created by

2800-407: The streets and knocked Thor unconscious. He was then apprehended by the British Army and Thor again, but stopped fighting when Thor realized that Ard-Con was trying to reach a portal at Stonehenge to leave Earth. After that, Ard-Con successfully departed Earth. Ard-Con was unable to find his people so returned to Earth thanks to a portal created by two tourists and the hero Meggan , who were under

2856-416: The subtitle 'play as you go', Pocket Gamer set out to provide professional editorial coverage of mobile and handheld gaming formats which they saw as the future of gaming. At launch the site focused on mobile phones (java and brew), the Nokia N-Gage , Nintendo's Game Boy series as well as the then newly launched Nintendo DS . They also mentioned PDAs and handheld console pretenders such as Gizmondo and

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2912-424: The weekly Pocket Gamer Podcast on 1 December 2008. Ten years later in May 2018, Steel Media Ltd expanded the international reach of PocketGamer.Biz by partnering with Maysalward in Jordan to launch a b2b Arabic-language mobile gaming site, PocketGamer.me . In October 2008, Pocket Gamer launched its first foreign edition aimed at consumers, PocketGamer.Fr, providing news and reviews on mobile and iPhone apps to

2968-501: Was able to separate Urizen from Cable, but not before they used their combined powers to wake the comatose Rogue . Urizen spent its last moments in terror as Hecatomb consumed it. Rogue then arrived and, her powers augmented by Pandemic's "Strain 88" virus, absorbed the 8 billion consciousnesses Hecatomb contained, destroying it. Subsequently, Rogue contained the memories of all those minds, but Urizen and its memories were never specifically mentioned. Pocket Gamer Pocket Gamer

3024-426: Was also available on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK . In May 2008, British company Steel Media (founders of the Pocket Gamer website) announced that it partnered with O2 to produce the Pocket Gamer Guide to Mobile Games magazine, which had an initial print run of 500,000 copies and was made available in all O2 UK stores, making O2 the 4th UK mobile network to feature the Pocket Gamer magazine. In May 2008,

3080-404: Was created by Dan Slott , Khoi Pham, and Christos N. Gage . Originally, the Unspoken was a just ruler to the Inhumans. However, fearful that it would corrupt his people, he decided to steal the Slave Engine, his people's greatest weapon, along with the Xerogen Crystals it utilized and buried them somewhere in Tibet. After refusing to reveal the Slave Engine's location, he was then challenged to

3136-495: Was killed by the Imperial Guard Flashire. Ultimus appears in Marvel Strike Force . Ultra Living Brain is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Zeb Wells and artists John Romita Jr. and Ed McGuinness , it first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 6) #6 (July 2022). It is a successor to the Living Brain created by Steven Perry to deduce Spider-Man 's secret identity. After accidentally killing Petty,

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