For nearly a decade-and-a-half, publisher Activision’s name was synonymous with the Marvel Comics license. Starting with 2000’s Spider-Man from developer Neversoft and X-Men: Mutant Academy, the house of Call of Duty would pump out nearly a Spider-Man game a year on top of titles like the X-Men Legends franchise and Marvel Ultimate Alliance among others.…
Going into the busy holiday shopping season, Arcade1up’s major comic book video game offering this fall was once limited to their X-Men cabinet which includes the classic arcade game, Captain America and the Avengers, and Avengers in Galactic Storm. Now the maker of home cabinets have a few more units to add to their catalog…
PlayStation just put off a digital event, dubbed the PlayStation Showcase, with announcements that that hit as hard – if not harder – than an E3 press conference. This goes double, or even triple, if you’re a lover of Marvel. The first taste of Marvel came from a new look at the upcoming Marvel’s Guardians…
Hot off of the War for Wakanda expansion, Crystal Dynamics is not letting the momentum it has built up for Marvel’s Avengers in the past few months to slow down. Today, they revealed their Winter roadmap for their ongoing title, highlighting what players can expect before the end of the year. The headline grabbing news,…
Revealed back in May with its voice cast confirmed in July, the trailer for the animated adaptation of Injustice: Gods Among Us was once exclusive to the home video release of Batman: The Long Halloween Part 2. Now the preview of the film, simply titled Injustice, has found its way online. Based on the first…
Last week during Gamescom, the world got its first glimpse at Marvel’s Midnight Suns from developer Firaxis Games via a cinematic trailer. The tail end of the reveal teased that the first gameplay footage for the title would be revealed on September 1st, and today we got just that. The story of Marvel’s Midnight Suns…
Before E3 this summer, it was leaked that two Marvel games were set to be announced: Guardians of the Galaxy, which made its debut at the event, and a yet to be named tactics RPG from XCOM developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games which was absent. As part of this year’s Gamescom, the Opening Night…
DEVELOPERS: Crystal Dynamics/Eidos-Montréal/Nixxes PUBLISHER: Square Enix REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 4 (Slim) from a copy purchased by the author. It’s hard to believe it, but it will soon be one year since the launch of Marvel’s Avengers. Though its debut and first few months did the game very little favors, 2021 has been a good year…
DEVELOPER: Toybox Inc. PUBLISHER: Nintendo REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. Women have not had it easy in comic book video games. Sure, popular heroines like Wonder Woman, Black Widow, Gamora, Captain Marvel and others are nearly always present in large ensemble games, but the amount of comic book games…
If the past few years of video games has taught us one thing, it’s that launch is never truly the end of the story. Titles like No Man’s Sky and even Marvel’s Avengers recently have evolved beyond what they initially offered through downloadable content and patches. So, with that in mind, I thought: why couldn’t…
