We’ve known for quite some time about one piece of Lego news today, that the final wave of Lego Dimensions fun packs arrives which includes the Batman villain Bane, but it looks like another Lego game is getting some love today as well. Last week the Black Panther DLC pack arrived for Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, and now not…
There were a lot of X-Men video games released before the first X-Men Legends, some of them pretty great, but none really got the property right like the Legends series. Whereas console limitations had it such that the most X-Men you could have on-screen were two at a time (remember this is years before Konami’s arcade game made it…
This weekend a lot of North American audiences will perhaps get their first introduction to the character of Black Panther when he makes his big-screen debut in Captain America: Civil War. If you want to get a crash course on the character, why not do so by playing the Black Panther add-on content that’s being added to Lego…
Two weeks ago a rumour, that is yet to be substantiated, surfaced that Sony could possibly be working on a Spider-Man project for the PS4. Now, as Spider-Man is my favourite super hero of all time, this news got me very excited, but even before this was even hinted at, it’s something that I postulated…
With the prelude to Civil War now over with just a week until Captain America: Civil War his theatres, a countdown has begun: The Countdown to Apocalypse. All throughout the month of May and leading up to the release of Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse, I’ll be shining the spotlight on games where Apocalypse features prominently. Expect reviews of the following…
Over this past month I’ve now looked at three versions of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 that have all addressed the Civil War conflict. Prior to the release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and even the story in the comics from Mark Millar, Captain America and Iron Man have been battling in video games and continue to do so even today. To…
When Activision started their Marvel action-RPG series with the original X-Men Legends, development responsibilities primarily fell on Raven Software with the occasional porting duties being outsourced to other studios. With development on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Singularity and a reboot of the Wolfenstein franchise all happening simultaneously, Raven had very little resources to commit to the second and final Marvel Ultimate Alliance game released in…
Approaching two years ago, before Sony decided to share the Spider-Man film rights with Marvel Studios, I wrote an editorial arguing that the best stewards for the Spider-Man video game franchise would be Sony themselves. Now it seems that amazing fantasy I had (see what I did there?) could, fingers crossed, be a reality. That…
The dungeon-crawler action-RPG genre was a good fit for the PSP. The overhead perspective allowed developers to create a fun action game on the go without having to be strapped with the usual camera problems inherent with more traditional 3-D action/adventure games. Some of the games that found great success on the handheld were the…
When the original Marvel Ultimate Alliance came out in 2006, a DS SKU was noticeably absent. There was a PSP game that was more or less a direct conversion of the PS2/Wii game with the usual compromises, but if you wanted to play MUA on a Nintendo handheld, you had to stick with the watered down beat-em-up that was…
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