September 26th, 1996. In limited release, Nintendo launched their first ever three-dimensional console that defined how games would be played in this bold new perspective, thanks to games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Rare’s Goldeneye 007, the latter of which showed developers how first-person shooters, a genre that exploded in the next console…
Throughout this month, I’ve looked at games where it’s possible to pit the Dark Knight against the Man of Steel to see who would win. However, neither of those games were truly about Batman Vs. Superman. What happened if an event so horrific caused the DC Universe’s brightest beacon of hope to go dim? Who would…
The last time Superman would appear in his own video game other than a mobile title was in 2006’s Superman Returns, which is nearly a decade old at this point. Even though it’s been that long, it doesn’t mean that someone wasn’t trying to bring the Man of Steel back to the video game world. Factor 5,…
Video games have not been kind to the Man of Steel. There are over a dozen games starring Superman that have been released, and the best one, Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, rests at a 64 on Metacritic. Lets not also forget that Superman also is the subject of much ridicule in the video game world, having starred…
Before the X-Men squared off against one another, or the Marvel Universe went to war with Capcom, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe fought one-on-one in what would become a trend for super hero in video games: put them in a fighting game. Given the huge popularity both at home and in the…
In March 2016, cinematic history will be made. For the first time in a live-action film, two of DC’s, nay comics, biggest icons Batman and Superman will share the screen and square off in Warner Bros. Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice. For each Friday for the month of March, I’ll be looking at games where the…
TT Games had a very busy calendar year going on from late 2013. They put out the massive Lego Marvel Super Heroes, a game based on two-thirds of the Hobbit trilogy, this fall’s Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham and amongst all of that, they managed to produce a game that launched next to February’s blockbuster hit,…
Season passes have become quite an alarming trend in video games today with publishers requesting people pay money up front for things when they’re not even sure what they’ll get. Jumping on this trend for the first time is TT Games with Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham which allows you to purchase a Season Pass…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 Superman: The Man of Steel is bit of an oddity when it comes to comic book based games, as it was published by a company that had the rights to both the animated and comic book side of the character. Publisher Atari also put out the “Apokolips” games based…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/05/2013 After the Superman Sudoku puzzle game they put out on the Game Boy Advance, I didn’t know what to expect from EA’s Superman Returns game on the Nintendo DS. This handheld version is an ambitious action-board game hybrid that has a lot of interesting ideas that didn’t quite the…
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