Fighting games should not be designed for players like me, yet in 2017, developers like Netherrealm went out of their way to make sure that they were. Fighting games were born in the arcade where two opponents would stand shoulder-to-shoulder determining who would have to put in a quarter to continue playing and who could…
This is not something that I’ve particularly looked forward to writing, but effectively immediately, I’ll be taking a very reduced approach to content production for the forseeable future. Later on this month I’ll have been working on either this in some capacity for six years and while I’m very proud of what I’ve managed to…
Announced in November as one of the downloadable fighters for Injustice 2’s Fighter Pack 3 along with the Atom and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Netherrealm today has debuted the first gameplay footage of the Enchantress. The character is perhaps best known from 2016’s Suicide Squad where she was the villain the titular team went up against. The Enchantress, a…
Shaun Escayg, the creative director and writer of last year’s Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, seems to have traded the likes of Nathan Drake, Chloe Frazer and the post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us for Captain America’s shield and Thor’s enchanted hammer. Escayg joined the prolific Naughty Dog during the development of The Last of Us and has had his hands…
Following the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 level expansion from next month, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 has added another round of DLC in the form of characters from Marvel’s newest super team, the Champions. Spun off from the Avengers, the team is made up of legacy characters like Ironheart (a new African-American character who is basically the…
2017 was a MASSIVE year for comic book video games from sheer volume alone with long gestating titles like Battle Chasers: Nightwar finally coming out, the release of two major AAA fighting games and surprises like a remaster of Rogue Trooper and a collection of NES Disney games that included the likes of DuckTales and it’s pricey sequel, DuckTales 2. So far the…
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