WE CAN’T EXPECT ROCKSTEADY TO MAKE EVERY COMIC BOOK GAME

Rocksteady Studios is an amazing game development house, that can’t be denied by anyone. With only three games to their name (and a fourth on the way!) I have yet to play a game produced by them that I didn’t enjoy. Even their first effort, Urban Chaos: Riot Response, was a pretty great debut effort,…

THE PUNISHER: VIDEO GAMES LOW HANGING FRUIT

If you look at console based games going back to the NES forwards, you can almost see trends in what genres were the most desired. In the 8-16 bit era it was all about having a mascot: Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic, Capcom had MegaMan, and this spawned many wannabes like your Bubsy the Cat…

ROCKET RACCOON: RATCHET AND CLANK MEETS CONKER’S BAD FUR DAY

Everyone knows I play an excessive amount of comic book related video games, a reasonable enough deduction seeing I manage and produce content for a site called “Comic Gamers Assemble.” However, what you may not know, you may want to be sitting down for this, is that I sometime’s play video games…that are just video…

ON THE RECENT BOMBARDMENT OF REVIEWS

If you’re a regular visitor, you’ve probably noticed the insane amount of reviews that have been posted over the past week with the note saying they were published previously on the Comicbookmovie.com website. Now that I’ve FINALLY finished up moving them over, I wanted to write-up an explanation as to why there’s been so much…

WHY DAREDEVIL WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT VIDEO GAME

The turn of the century saw Marvel’s Daredevil character burst out of irrelevance thanks to the relaunch of the character from writer/filmmaker Kevin Smith. This resurgence, combined with the comic book movie boom thanks to the success of Fox’s X-Men and Sony’s Spider-Man, lead the character to get his own film starring future Batman, Ben…

WHY ISN’T THERE A MARVEL VIDEO GAME UNIVERSE?

Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008, the film to video game rights for all properties were licensed to publisher Sega to farm out development to whom ever they saw fit. While the results ranged from really good (Captain America: Super Soldier PS3/Xbox 360, Thor: God of Thunder Nintendo DS) to okay (The…

THE NEW SUICIDE SQUAD AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE “ARKHAM” UNIVERSE

NOTE: SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR ARKHAM: ORIGINS/BLACKGATE/CITY     This week DC announced that they’re relaunching their ongoing Suicide Squad series with a new issue one starting in the month of July with some new familiar faces (Deathstroke, Black Manta) and a freshly introduced face to the New 52 (Jokers Daughter): While it may have seem like…