COUNTDOWN TO APOCALYPSE MONTH PART 3: MARVEL COMICS X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER/MARVEL SUPER HEROES VS. STREET FIGHTER (PSOne)

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…

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD CHARACTERS COME TO LEGO MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS ON 3DS AND PS VITA

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…

GOTG VOLUME 2, THOR: RAGNAROK, AND 12-INCH FIGURES ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE SADLY WON’T SEE FROM DISNEY INFINITY

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…

WHY DISNEY INFINITY FAILED AND HOW DISNEY CAN STILL HAVE A PRESENCE IN THE TOYS TO LIFE MARKET

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…

R.I.P DISNEY INFINITY 2013-2016

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…