Before the days of Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, console exclusive comic book video games were a big selling point of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin, or simply Spider-Man (1991), was the first ever 16-bit console Spider-Man game and it was followed two years by X-Men when the team was arguably the hottest thing going in comics at the…
The logistics of making a Marvel Gaming Universe that would be comparable to the intricately woven, interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe is near impossible due in large part to how video games are made, distributed and sold. If you consider last year’s Marvel Spider-Man for the Sony PlayStation 4 as the start of the MGU, it could very…
Game Informer just unveiled the cover for their June issue issue and Marvel video game lovers have a lot to get excited over as it spotlights Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order which arrives this July, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. Originally developed by Raven Software as well as Vicarious Visions with publishing duties being handled…
Today is Free Comic Book Day, an annual event where people can go to their local comic or hobby shop and walk out with comics at no charge. But, what if you could get something extra without leaving the house? For Free Comic Book Day 2019, both my recently released book, The Web of Spider-Man…
When it launches later this year, you won’t be able to play Marvel’s Iron Man VR with just your PlayStation 4 like you did with Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2018. As the name states, this is a VR title and thus requires the PlayStation VR headset as well as two PlayStation Move controllers if you want to step into…
One of the more engaging Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame reviews I’ve seen has been from Victor Lucas of The Electric Playground. In it, Victor compares the journey these movies have taken over the past eleven years with that of his own, how his team was invited to do the making of documentary for Sega’s Iron Man and how the success of…
This week the world turns its collective attention to Marvel Avengers: Endgame, a film that will conclude over a decade of films in the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe and reveal the fate of those affected by The Snap at the conclusion of Marvel Avengers: Infinity War. Throughout the years there have been many Marvel video games that share a…
Video game industry veteran Chris Baker, who has his name in the credits of many Marvel games you know and love, just published a new video and the subject is one that’s near and dear to many retro, comic book video game loving enthusiast: Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage. The video spotlights excerpts from my book, The Web of Spider-Man…
From Nintendo to Sony and Sega, game companies are seeing the value in releasing their classic video game content in nostalgia shells. New to the arena is a new challenger, Capcom, but their definition of a dedicated device is a little bit more ambitious. Capcom Home Arcade is a dedicated plug-and-play, two-player arcade stick shaped…
Announced late last year at The Game Awards, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order was since only given a vague “summer 2019” release date from a Nintendo Direct last February. That window is now a lot more narrower as we now know when players will be able to pick up the Nintendo Switch exclusive thanks to…
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