Back around the time when promotion was starting to ramp up for Activision’s X-Men: Mutant Academy, I failed to see why the world needed it. I understood why it was coming out as Fox’s first X-Men film was on the way and there was money to be made, but save that, it never felt like a game I needed. As…
It’s easy to be pessimistic about playing a handheld version of a console game on far superior hardware, as most of the time the handheld game will fail to reach anywhere near the quality of its console counterpart. That’s not always the case though: X2: Wolverine’s Revenge, Thor: God of Thunder and Batman: The Brave and the Bold are easily…
Just because the upcoming Lego Marvel’s The Avengers is based on the two films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t mean that other characters from the larger Marvel Universe aren’t coming out to play. Some new additions that have been revealed to be in the roster of the second Lego Marvel game today are Sam Wilson as…
It’s impossible not to be less than enthused when hearing news about how Marvel is adding X character to Y free-to-play game, especially after spending the last couple of weeks playing one of the greatest comic book games ever crafted in Batman: Arkham Knight. Where have the days gone where we got titles like X-Men Legends, The Incredible…
Yesterday a firm release date for the 3.0 edition of Disney Infinity was announced for August 30th along with a ton of other Star Wars and Disney figures. With comic-con coverage ramping up, it was revealed further today that two new Marvel figures will join the new Star Wars and Disney offerings: Ultron and Hulkbuster Iron Man,…
Say what you will about Marvel’s reliance on mobile games being less compelling than say, the brilliant Batman: Arkham Knight, but their ability to update their current slate of games to what’s going on in the world of comics is pretty amazing. Case in point, today it was announced that the new Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099…
The long running Peanuts comic strip is coming to the big-screen this fall, and along with it a tie-in game from publisher Activision and a yet to be revealed developer. Titled The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy’s Grand Adventure, the player will take on the role of Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy as he travels through 2-D side-scrolling environments where you’ll…
The folks at Smosh Games have teamed up with Honest Trailers to make some hilarious honest trailers for some excellent comic book games like Lego Marvel Super Heroes and the first Arkham game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and already they’ve got an Honest Trailer for the recently released Batman: Arkham Knight. While the trailer doesn’t give away major plot points, it does contain some…
Back in 2005, I don’t think that many people had high hopes for the Fantastic Four video game. Sure, it was a movie game and yes, the movie it was based on was received tepidly at best, but in hindsight there was a reason to be optimistic somewhat about it, and I can’t believe I’m going to…
Before it launches on Tuesday for Season Pass holders and a week letter for everyone else, WB Games is providing a first look at the Batgirl: The Matter of Family DLC from developer WB Games Montreal. From the trailer we can gather that Batgirl is on a mission to save her captured father from the clutches of…
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