10 YEARS LATER: MY BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM STORY

2009 is not a year I look back on fondly. My first job out of university in 2007 was in the telephone customer service industry, and it paid the bills while also allowing me to afford things I never could afford before, but it didn’t take long for me to loathe going to work everyday.…

FIRST LOOK AT THE JOKER AND SPAWN IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11

Before Mortal Kombat 11 even came out last April, data miners had unearthed the information that Batman’s arch-nemesis The Joker and Todd McFarlane’s Spawn were coming to Mortal Kombat 11. A new trailer focusing on the game’s Kombat Pack not only confirms the duo, but also provides the first look at their in-game character models. Spawn looks like…

LIAM ROBERTSON UNCOVERS THE SECOND FAILED DARK KNIGHT PROJECT

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy hasn’t had the best track record when it comes to video games. 2005’s Batman Begins was a respectable Splinter Cell clone from EA developed by Eurocom, but it was still above average at best. There was a game based on The Dark Knight in development from now defunct studio Pandemic, but it was cancelled and became the…

DC UNIVERSE ONLINE COMES TO NINTENDO SWITCH AUGUST 6TH

Daybreak Studios revealed back in May that they were bringing the close to decade old MMO DC Universe Online to the Nintendo Switch platform. At the time, they were only committing to a vague, “Summer 2019” release date, but now the exact release date has been unveiled: August 6th, which is a little over two…

WATCH: CHRIS BAKER RANKS THE 8 BATMAN ’89 GAMES

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton’s Batman in theaters. Along with Richard Donner’s Superman, Batman showed that comic book films could be more than just for kids, leading to the modern superhero movie renaissance we have today while also setting the tone for things like Batman: The Animated Series. In celebration of Batman’s anniversary, Chris Baker has…

DC UNIVERSE ONLINE COMING TO NINTENDO SWITCH SUMMER 2019

Not to be outdone by Marvel who are partnering with Nintendo to bring Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order to the Switch, Daybreak Studios just announced that they’re bringing the free-to-play MMO DC Universe Online to the platform this summer. Starting its life as a PlayStation 3 and PC exclusive under Sony, DCUO found new life…

COULD THESE COMIC BOOK FAVORITES BE COMING TO MORTAL KOMBAT 11?

The post Midway fighting games from NetherRealm Studios have been no stranger to totally out there guest characters, from Kratos and Freddy Krueger in Mortal Kombat (2011), to the Xenomorph, Leatherface and Jason Voorhees in Mortal Kombat X and most recently with Hellboy and the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2017’s Injustice 2. Mortal Kombat 11 it seems is looking to…

PUBG COULD BE ADDING A COMIC BOOK CROSSOVER OF ITS VERY OWN

This past summer, battle royale sensation Fortnite added Marvel villain and star of Marvel Avengers: Infinity War for a brief timed event, and now it looks like the game that started the battle royale craze is getting in on some comic book action of its own. A teaser video on the official PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds YouTube account titled “Warning…Prison Outbreak Imminent” features…