A year after Turok’s first outing on the original Game Boy, Acclaim launched not only the sequel to Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on the N64, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, but also a game by the same name on Nintendo’s freshly released Game Boy Color. With a year to make a new game and more powerful hardware with colour…
There’s lots of reason to play video games: As a form of escapism entertainment; To enjoy a story; To learn and challenge your skills with interesting gameplay mechanics or sometimes just because you’re bored and want to fill some time. The Tick, based on the comic book as well as the animated series of the same…
The ladies are getting a lot of love in this latest batch of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers character reveals. New additions to the roster are Squirrel Girl, who also appeared in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, along with new comers including the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan (SO EXCITED); Lady Thor and Speed from the Young Avengers. By the…
Those hoping to get a new Lego Marvel game under their stocking this holiday season are going to be a little disappointed, however fans won’t have to wait that long into the new year before they’re back to smashing items and collecting studs with their favourite Marvel super heroes and villains. Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, a pseudo-sequel…
With the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 80’s, it looked like everyone was trying to create the next big anthropomorphic property: There was the Battletoads video game franchise, Biker Mice from Mars, and Street Sharks among a few others. One of the earliest attempts that spawned a short-lived animated series and a one wave action…
What do you do with any video game you intend to spawn into a series after a breakout hit? Why you spin it off into a handheld title of course. In the 90’s this meant making a Game Boy game, which is exactly what Acclaim did when they released Turok: battle of the Bionosaurs in late 1997.…
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT CONTAINED WITHIN Ask a lot of people who there personal favourite Batman is, and they won’t say Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale or Ben Affleck. They’ll say it’s Kevin Conroy, the legendary actor who started voicing Bruce Wayne/Batman in the classic Batman: The Animated Series and has continued with the…
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