Venom had the (dis)honor of having his big screen debut in the well-meaning, but very flawed Spider-Man 3 in 2007. Now, eleven years later, the Spider-Man villain turned anti-hero is set to headline his own movie starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and the toothy title character, arriving this Friday, October 5th. While this weekend will only mark Venom’s…
“the funny thing that Marvel and I talk a lot about, is this is the Iron Man, this is the one that’s going to start it off.” From the article Marvel Exec: Spider-Man ‘Kicks off new era of console games” from IGN. This quote taken from the Kinda Funny spoilercast between host Greg Miller and creative director on Marvel’s Spider-Man Bryan…
In 1997, Sony worked with Image Comics to publish a first-party Spawn video game on the original PlayStation: Spawn: The Eternal. The game was negatively received by both critics as well as fans and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who wishes it to be resurrected. Now, over twenty years later, Sony is once again…
For twenty-two years, Insomniac Games have been delighting video game players with their creative, often colorful worlds, over-the-top weapons and AAA games that often feel like they have the sensibility of something made by an indie studio. When it was announced that Insomniac was tackling the Spider-Man license for their upcoming, highly anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man, it…
Being a teenager in the late 90’s, I loved to play video games of all types, even those that many of my peers deemed were just “for kids”. Early games on the Nintendo 64 like Super Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing were titles I always kept coming back to, and when Nintendo was set to launch a game…
2017 was a MASSIVE year for comic book video games from sheer volume alone with long gestating titles like Battle Chasers: Nightwar finally coming out, the release of two major AAA fighting games and surprises like a remaster of Rogue Trooper and a collection of NES Disney games that included the likes of DuckTales and it’s pricey sequel, DuckTales 2. So far the…
In previous years around the holiday season I’ve looked at comic book games with a Christmas twist such as Batman: Arkham Origins, the many games inspired by Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, and Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron. While growing up, video games were of my most coveted Christmas gifts as it was only really around that time of year when I…
After weeks of will they/won’t they speculation and hope from fans who want the likes of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to share the screen with the Avengers in a Marvel movie, Disney has officially purchased 21st Century Fox’s film assets to the tune of over $50 billion, ultimately meaning that such things can…
Sony’s currently ongoing PlayStation Experience event didn’t come with any new trailer, gameplay footage, or a release date for next year’s highly anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man from Insomniac, but we did learn more about the writing team behind the title. Assisting Insomniac’s lead writer Jon Paquette are the writing team of Dan Slott and Christos Gage. Slott has been…
As someone who was born in the 80’s, my video game education, like many I’m sure, started with the NES. Everyone has their favorite series from that era: whether it’s Nintendo first-party heavy hitters like Mario and Zelda, but for me, it was Mega Man. There wasn’t much I didn’t like about Capcom’s beloved franchise:…
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