Normally in the case of movie tie-in games, they tend to launch along with the theatrical release of the movie they’re based on, which wasn’t the case for a few Spider-Man 2 games because the hardware to play them on simply wasn’t out in time for the movie: The PSP wouldn’t come out until early 2005, and the…
Despite the box-office success of 1997’s Men in Black, based on the Malibu published comic of the same name, North American dedicated console gamers couldn’t play an interactive form of the alien busting bureau until 1998. While PC players and PAL PSOne owners got to experience Men in Black: The Game in 1997 along with the film,…
Spider-Man 2 on the sixth generation of consoles was one of the most important comic book games of all time, radically changing how we thought about how the character of Spider-Man works in a three-dimensional space by giving players the freedom to more or less swing around and do whatever they pleased in an open-world environment.…
Neversoft’s Spider-Man and its Vicarious Vision’s developed sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro were great first attempts at making the Spider-Man game that everyone dreamed of playing, but were held back by the limitations of the consoles that they were on. Spider-Man’s webs for example seemingly attached to the sky, there were more interior environments than exterior and you couldn’t…
Unlike the first Spider-Man movie game that arrived on the sixth generation of consoles, Spider-Man (2002) on the Game Boy Advance was the second game starring the character to arrive on the handheld, following 2001’s Spider-Man: Mysterio’s Menace. The two are alike in more ways other than they’re both movie tie-in games though, as they both hail from new…
Alongside preparing a lot of content based around Spider-Man movie titles leading up to the release of the joint Sony/Marvel Studios produced Spider-Man: Homecoming, I’ve also been busy over the last several months getting ready for another anniversary of a comic book property turned Sony Pictures franchise. On July 2nd, it will be the 20th anniversary of…
June 20th, 1997. On that date twenty years ago, one of the worst reviewed comic book, nay FILMS, of all time was released in North American cinemas, a movie so bad that parent company Warner Bros. would not release another live-action Batman film for eight years. That film of course was the Joel Schumacher directed,…
Batman Returns, released twenty-five years ago today on June 19th, 1992 was the last Tim Burton directed, Micheal Keaton starring movie before the franchise was torpedoed by Joel Schumacher and eventually rebooted by Christopher Nolan in 2005 with Batman Begins. Though perhaps not remembered as fondly as Burton’s first outing with DC’s iconic character in 1989, it’s…
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 wasn’t one of the games shown off during the big E3 press conferences, but that doesn’t mean that Arthur Parsons and TT Games weren’t ready to go big with the game at the convention. Arthur Parsons from TT Games pulled double duty with an interview for PlayStation as well as a…
A new trailer has just been released for the Teen Titans GO! Fun and Team pack expansions which will come to the toys-to-life game Lego Dimensions starting September 12th. The trailer spotlights the three new characters coming to the game: Raven, Boy and Starfire and confirms new looks for both Robin as well as Cyborg who are already available…
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