Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is ten years old this week. Of those ten years though, the game has only been available to purchase for four of them, but that could hopefully be changing soon. Bryan Lee O’Malley, the creator of the Scott Pilgrim comic series that the game, as well as the movie of the…
“Despite all this spin-off talk, Rosemann isn’t actively overlapping his universe of interconnected games — at least not yet. It’s more like a Spider-Verse. “Each game is in the Marvel universe, but they’re in their own reality, if you will,” he says. “Currently, our plan is to keep each game set in its own Marvel…
In early 2019, I left a job I held for eight years on a gamble that I could make it in the insurance industry. A barrier to entry was that before you could officially begin training for full employment, you had to pass a test in order to obtain the necessary license, a feat many…
In 2004, creator Bryan Lee O’Malley introduced readers to Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, the first in a six-part saga about the struggles of a twenty-something year old slacker learning to grow up and change from past life mistakes. On the surface level though, the story revolves around Scott’s quest to vanquish the seven…
For those who pre-ordered Marvel’s Avengers on PlayStation 4 and were lucky to get in, a pre-launch beta was held this past weekend, allowing players to sample a tiny portion of the single-player offerings and a decent representation of the multiplayer suite. Out of the gate, the beta painted a somewhat troubling picture for a game that…
In June, reports starting circulating that AT&T, the parent company of Warner Bros. as well as its gaming division, WB Games, were looking to sell off the gaming branch of its portfolio. Studios under the WB Games umbrella include NetherRealm, who make the Injustice series, UK based TT Games behind the LEGO games and perhaps the biggest…
A big congratulations goes out to the team at Camouflaj, the makers of Marvel’s Iron Man VR. For the month of July, the PSVR exclusive topped the digital sales in the North American PlayStation Store – which encompasses the United States and Canada – and trailed only Beat Saber in European charts landing at number two. Marvel’s…
Arcade games have seen a resurgence in the home. Not only are there larger scale units like those produced by Arcade1up, but also smaller scale, desk-sized models like those made by Replicade and even tinier ones in Super Impulse’s Tiny Arcade brand that double as a keychain. Following in the steps of fellow cabinet designer Arcade1up,…
Nightdive Studios have been a boon to fans of the classic Turok series of first-person shooters from Acclaim. Their stellar remasters of the first and second games in the franchise, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, have given players who long for the good old days a way to experience those games on modern machines, with the…
Developer Rocksteady showed the world what AAA comic book games could be with their series of Batman games. They’ve largely sat out this generation however, releasing only Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015 followed by the much smaller in scope Batman: Arkham VR a year later. Several E3’s and Game Awards events have come and gone, with many anticipating…
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