This week’s news about the termination of Disney Infinity and the closure of internal Disney Interactive studio Avalanche Software resulting in the loss of three hundred jobs was nothing but tragic. As someone who may have loved the actual toys of Infinity over the game itself, it’s still sad to hear that hundreds of people who were very passionate about…
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…
The news broke last night that the thirteen-year old website that was one of the first to cover video games in a medium other than print, GameTrailers.com, is no more. I’d like to express my condolences for the staff of GT that have been affected by this unexpected closure and wish them the best in…
Fall is the time of year when people throw down big dollars and all the AAA releases that publishers flood onto the market, your Call of Duty’s, Assassin’s Creed, Halo’s, etc, however for me this past weekend, the game I couldn’t take myself away from was Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign on my PS4. It’s an incredibly simple, yet…
We’ve taken quite the journey since the post-credits scene featuring Nick Fury showed up in 2008’s Iron Man: The Avengers have assembled twice; Spider-Man’s tangled web of rights have finally allowed him to join the MCU and we’ve seen characters on the big-screen that we never would’ve imagined would show up like the Winter Soldier and Rocket Raccoon. Marvel…
While watching/listening to this week’s episode of GT Time, the panel discussed the game announcements of this week, including Lego’s entry into the toys-to-life genre, Lego Dimensions. Frequent panel member, Brandon Jones, an obsessive Disney Infinity collector, firmly believes that with Lego moving into this space that we’ll no longer see traditional retail Lego games and that…
When it comes to villains, Spider-Man is my opinion is tied with Batman as having the most recognizable rogues gallery: Sandman, Vulture, Electro, Venom, Carnage, Rhino, and Doc Ock are just some of the baddies that someone who doesn’t even read Spider-Man comics may know as they were either in a movie, an episode of…
Late last week, whether to test the waters to see if people would be for the idea, to hint at something hopefully in the works, or just thinking out loud, Bayonetta 2 director Yusuke Hashimoto stated he would love to make a game in the Spider-Verse, specifically starring the breakout character from the Edge of Spider-Verse series, Spider-Gwen. This news, as you…
As last week turned into the weekend the final big piece of entertainment news that started circulating everywhere was that Netflix was in talks with Nintendo to make a live-action The Legend of Zelda tv-series, described as Game of Thrones for the whole family. Between that time and the time that you’ll eventually see this article, I would…
Last night the annual DICE awards took place in Las Vegas, Nevada and the big winner of the evening was the WB Games published, Monolith Productions developed Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. While it didn’t take home the coveted “Game of the Year” award, that went to EA/BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, it took home an otherwise outstanding collection…
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