PlayStation Enters Original-Content Arena With Superhero-Themed Show 'Powers'

Welcome to the original-content game, PlayStation.

Sony’s PlayStation Network, which has offered movies and TV shows to rent and buy on its consoles since 2006, is joining the growing ranks of digital platforms producing original content with the launch of Powers.

The hour-long television series is an adaptation of a graphic-novel series about detectives who investigate crimes committed by supernatural beings. Their mission: to protect humans from super-powered beings who don’t exactly act like heroes.

The series was penned by Michael Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis, the prolific Marvel writer who’s currently working on the Guardians of the Galaxy comics. Read more...