One character who was noticeably absent from the one hundred and fifty plus character roster of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers was any incarnation of Spider-Man. Sure, the game’s story takes place in the MCU of which Spider-Man only recently joined, but there’s plenty of characters in the open-worlds of the game like Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster Thor…
Is it just me, or did it seem like Capcom habitually used the X-Men as a testing ground for larger Marvel Universe ideas? On the SNES, there was X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse which was followed by Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. When the seeds of the Vs. Series were first being planted, there came X-Men: Children of the Atom which was precedded…
Patrick Klepek of Kotaku who broke the fantastic story about the specifics of why Disney Infinity closed (read the full story HERE if you haven’t already) just recently guess starred on the Toys to Games podcast where he disclosed another hearth-breaking Marvel scoop that now unfortunately we’ll never get to see. The scoop that was held for…
Disney Infinity as we know it will end next month with the release of the figures and play set based on Pixar’s upcoming film Finding Dory, but even with no new figures and content being sold for the just recently terminated toys to life game past June, it looks like someone is looking into a way to inject…
Lego Marvel’s The Avengers on both the PS Vita and 3DS is perhaps the closest the folks at TT Games have come to bringing the console experience to handhelds. Whereas previous Lego games on both devices were paired down, levels only affairs, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers had explorable open areas where quests and other collectibles waited. Now the handheld…
As predicated after the now week-by-week releases of the Black Panther and Doctor Strange expansions, tomorrow marks the last piece of Season Pass content for Lego Marvel’s The Avengers. Based on the ABC TV series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, its release ties in nicely to the two-part season three finale which airs tomorrow evening. You can download the…
If the cancellation of Disney Infinity was opening a wound; This latest news is throwing salt on it. Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek dug deep into what exactly led to the closure of Disney Infinity and uncovered a lot of ambitious plans for the game that unfortunately we’ll now never get to see. Had Disney Infinity continued, this fall we would have seen…
Before taking the Marvel license and turning it into one of the most popular fighting game franchises of all time by combining it with their own stable of characters, Capcom’s licensed output mostly came from their excellent Disney games in the 8-16 bit era like Ducktales, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Goof Troop among countless other classics. After takes…
This week’s news about the termination of Disney Infinity and the closure of internal Disney Interactive studio Avalanche Software resulting in the loss of three hundred jobs was nothing but tragic. As someone who may have loved the actual toys of Infinity over the game itself, it’s still sad to hear that hundreds of people who were very passionate about…
In a shocking, sad, and out of nowhere turn of events, Disney has decided to close down its Disney Infinity division, effective June. The axing of the division also spells the end for Infinity developer Avalanche software. From Disney: By now you may have heard the news that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue production of Disney Infinity. From the beginning, Disney Infinity was built for…
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