I'm finally getting back to posting my E3 news. Newcomer Planetwide Games is releasing an MMOG called RYL: Path of the Emperor. It's main novel features are guild wars and player-to-player combat, plus a $1 million tournament. But the most interesting feature doesn't have anything to do with the game itself.

A couple weeks ago Gonzalo pointed us to Gamics, a resource for creating comic books from games (machinima:film::gamics:comics). RYL is shipping with the terribly named but quite cool GameFreq Comic Book Creator. It's a Windows app for authoring gamics. The software features templates for comic pages with various panel arrangements (see the sample at right, click for a bigger version) and easy to use speech bubble and font tools. It's actually really intuitive. Then you can save the whole book to PDF or -- and this totally rocks -- print it directly to Kinkos from the application.

It just uses normal screenshots as source files, so you can use it with any game, or a combination of games, but you have to buy RYL to get the editor.