For nearly a decade-and-a-half, publisher Activision’s name was synonymous with the Marvel Comics license. Starting with 2000’s Spider-Man from developer Neversoft and X-Men: Mutant Academy, the house of Call of Duty would pump out nearly a Spider-Man game a year on top of titles like the X-Men Legends franchise and Marvel Ultimate Alliance among others.…
PlayStation just put off a digital event, dubbed the PlayStation Showcase, with announcements that that hit as hard – if not harder – than an E3 press conference. This goes double, or even triple, if you’re a lover of Marvel. The first taste of Marvel came from a new look at the upcoming Marvel’s Guardians…
Hot off of the War for Wakanda expansion, Crystal Dynamics is not letting the momentum it has built up for Marvel’s Avengers in the past few months to slow down. Today, they revealed their Winter roadmap for their ongoing title, highlighting what players can expect before the end of the year. The headline grabbing news,…
If the past few years of video games has taught us one thing, it’s that launch is never truly the end of the story. Titles like No Man’s Sky and even Marvel’s Avengers recently have evolved beyond what they initially offered through downloadable content and patches. So, with that in mind, I thought: why couldn’t…
Before Marvel’s Avengers launched in September of last year, it was leaked that Spider-Man was eventually going to be added to the game as a bonus for PlayStation users. Mere days after this information started to circulate, Sony made it official via a post on their official PlayStation blog, concluding with the statement that the…
Starting today on Disney+, the multiverse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be explored in the new animated series, What If…?. Based on the Marvel comic book of the same name, What If…? will spotlight such divergent outcomes as Peggy Carter getting the Super Soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers, and T’Challa taking up the…
From exclusive solo outings to an upcoming PlayStation only appearance in Marvel’s Avengers, Sony currently has a digital lock on the escapades of everyone’s favorite wall-crawler: Spider-Man. Though he was free to swing around on Nintendo’s systems throughout the 90s, it was once Sega who held a brief monopoly on some of the character’s video…
Earlier this week, Sony Pictures dropped the first trailer for Venom: Let There be Carnage, the sequel to 2018’s Venom that, hopefully, will arrive in theaters this September. This will mark the live-action debut for the scarlet symbiote, but for many – myself included – they got their introduction to the character through the beat…
Bill Rosemann, VP and Head of Creative at Marvel Games, has gone on the record stating that there’s no interconnected Marvel Gaming Universe akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite a statement that all console games under the “Marvel’s” umbrella take place in their own reality though, three of them: Marvel’s Spider-Man; Marvel’s Iron Man…
During the summer of last year, and before Marvel’s Avengers even came out, the controversial news came out that Spider-Man was being added to the roster. The kicker? He would be exclusive to the PlayStation ecosystem. While it was hard not to get excited thinking about swinging around as the wall-crawler alongside the likes of…
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