FIRST IN-GAME SCREEN FROM BEENOX’S THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

With the success of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Canadian developer Beenox is now Activision’s go to developer for its Spider-Man games. Last year’s Edge of Time was met with a fairly luke warm reception (though, it’s in fact pretty great), but the studio is getting a third chance this summer with the tie-in to Sony’s upcoming…

EGM’S TOP 5 COMIC BOOK GAMES

EGMnow has a feature up highlighting their staffs top comic based games. The list ranges all of comic-dom, featuring super heroes, manga properties and Disney comics. Ray Carsillo lists Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage as his pick, though apparently he doesn’t remember the title that fondly, as he mentions the ability for a second player to participate…

BATMAN BREAKS INTO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS

Not content with just breaking into Arkham City, the Caped Crusader has once again entered the Guinness Book of World Records. From the twitter account @arkhamcitynews, it was revealed that Batman: Arkham City will be honored in the 2012 Gamers Edition of the publication for the “Most Utterly Evil Supervillians” record. Batman will also grace…

PREVIEW: THE DARKNESS II

  What better way to kick start things than to talk about 2012’s first major comic game adaptation. For those who didn’t know, the Darkness is a title under the Image subsidiary Top Cow productions which debuted in the mid-1990’s. In the early years of this console generation, the Darkness came from developer Starbreeze studios…