If you’ve read my feature about the Nintendo 64’s library of comic books games, you’ll know that there wasn’t that many released from the time in launched in September of 1996 to the time its last game, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, arrived in 2002. Technically speaking, there were eleven video games with comic book properties released…
September 26th, 1996. In limited release, Nintendo launched their first ever three-dimensional console that defined how games would be played in this bold new perspective, thanks to games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Rare’s Goldeneye 007, the latter of which showed developers how first-person shooters, a genre that exploded in the next console…
NOTE: This review is spoiler free for the story. There are some super hero origin stories that simply don’t need retelling because even those who are not invested in the least know them: we know that Superman flew here from Krypton and is its last survivor; Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider and Batman’s parents…
A few months back, I reviewed a somewhat obscure comic book game for the Sega Genesis called Ex-Mutants. The source material for the game was based on a comic that was originally published under the Eternity Comics label before being passed around to several other companies, eventually winding up at Malibu Comics which was purchased by Marvel…
Whether you already own Lego Dimensions or plan to buy it later this month with the new PS4 exclusive Supergirl figure, you’re either way going to get your Batman fix with the starter packs inclusion of the Batman minifig and Batmobile vehicle. That’s not stopping developer TT Games from adding more Batman content as part of the…
Before they made it big with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and the first ever 3-D Spider-Man game, the now defunct developer Neversoft was working on a Ghost Rider game for the PSOne that would have been published by Crystal Dynamics before they ceased publishing to focus on development. Unsseen 64’s Liam Robertson, who had done great work documenting…
NOTE: The author of this article is a contributor to the Kickstarter campaign for Battle Chasers: Nightwar. As part of a recent update to backers, developer Airship Syndicate has provided a release window for their crowdfunded video game continuation of the Battle Chasers comic series: Battle Chasers: Nightwar. An alpha is set to launch in November, followed by a beta in…
Today is Batman Day, and I knew I wanted to do something to celebrate here but couldn’t decide exactly what. I thought I would do something maybe like a top ten best Batman games but prior to the release of Batman: Arkham Knight I did a top ten non-Arkham Batman games list which I still stand by…
It has not been a pleasant years for the many talented individuals who have worked within Disney’s interactive division. Following the shut down of Disney Infinity, which forced the closure of developer Avalanche Software came the termination of the four year old social game, Marvel: Avengers Alliance. From Polygon, who reported the news from Variety 5% of the 5,000 person workforce, equating to…
In advance of the Tuesday release of the second episode of Batman: The Telltale Series, Children of Arkham, comes a new trailer highlighting what to expect in the sophomore chapter in the series. If you haven’t finished the first episode because you’re waiting for the series to be completed, or have just bought the Season Pass disc that…
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