In a “I can’t believe this hasn’t happened sooner” surprise, it looks like we may be getting a HD collection of last gen’s award winning Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City pretty soon. This comes from a leak from a GameStop employee who sent a picture to the Eurogamer website announcing the yet to be unveiled collection. Though missing…
The dungeon-crawler action-RPG genre was a good fit for the PSP. The overhead perspective allowed developers to create a fun action game on the go without having to be strapped with the usual camera problems inherent with more traditional 3-D action/adventure games. Some of the games that found great success on the handheld were the…
When the original Marvel Ultimate Alliance came out in 2006, a DS SKU was noticeably absent. There was a PSP game that was more or less a direct conversion of the PS2/Wii game with the usual compromises, but if you wanted to play MUA on a Nintendo handheld, you had to stick with the watered down beat-em-up that was…
Last month saw the release of the awesome Marvel Battlegrounds playset for Disney Infinity 3.0 as well as a slew of new figures and a set of power discs. The game is not even a month old and the folks at Marvel games are already teasing new content for the multiplayer brawler. On Tuesday Bill Rosemann, creative director for Marvel…
When it was released in January, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers covered nearly every corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a big, or tiny, exception: Ant-Man. The first post Avengers: Age of Ultron film was notably absent from the game, that is, until today. For PlayStation owners, you can now download the Ant-Man level pack for Lego Marvel’s The Avengers…
If you’ve stumbled across my website, read my work, liked an article or even commented, chances are you really like comic book themed video games. If you’ve become a fan, first of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart, and secondly I’d like to tell you about a great book that looks at…
Last week some pretty convincing screenshots and evidence leaked that both Green Arrow and Supergirl would be coming to Lego Dimensions, either together in a Team Pack, or sold individually in Fun Packs. Two new videos have now surfaced showing the duo in game alongside other characters like Slimer and Lloyd. While one of them unfortunately has…
In my panel at Sci-Fi on the Rock yesterday towards the conclusion, I was posed the question “what do you think VR means for the future of comic book games?”. My first go to answer because I’m a huge Spider-Man fan, and the fact that there’s a game called Windlands that is very much like a…
At the conclusion of 2005’s X-Men Legends 2, a stinger set up a third chapter in the excellent action-RPG series that we would unfortunately never see. Unlike other franchises that have languished in limbo with no conclusion however, like MegaMan Legends, it wasn’t because the series was dead or the creators had been taken off the series. X-Men…
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