The last big game of the year has been reviewed, the awards have been handed out, so now it’s time to look towards the future. With a new year now upon us, there’s a fresh slate of comic book video games to look forward to, some that we’ll be playing – hopefully – within the…
Normally our annual Game of the Year awards drop before the new year. But, given that a high profile released arrived in December with Marvel’s Midnight Suns, it was an easy decision to push the event until January. It’s a good thing we did too because the latest Marvel video game opus is massive and…
DEVELOPER: Firaxis Games PUBLISHER: 2K Games REVIEWED ON: Xbox Series X from a copy purchased by the author. Building an RPG around superheroes is not a task that should be taken lightly. The expectation of many players going into a comic book video game is that they want to experience the power fantasy that comes…
With the 1982 release of Spider-Man for the Atari 2600, Marvel has now had a presence in the video game industry for 40 years. From the humble beginnings of the beloved wall-crawler traversing a skyscraper to stop the Green Goblin’s bombs from going off, the heroes and villains spawned from the House of Ideas have…
Growing up, I was starved for media based on things that I loved, so much so that I found shows like Mortal Kombat: Conquest on TBS appointment viewing each week. I knew it wasn’t great, and it barely had anything to do with Mortal Kombat, but when there wasn’t really any alternative, you settled for…
DEVELOPERS: Crystal Dynamics/Eidos-Montréal/Nixxes PUBLISHER: Square Enix RE-REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 5 from a copy purchased by the author. For further context, click HERE to read our initial review of Marvel’s Avengers. Listen to me talk about Marvel’s Avengers on the Games my Mom Found podcast HERE. Arriving hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed Marvel’s…
Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the tactical-RPG from Firaxis Games and publisher 2K was officially unveiled to the world almost a year ago during Gamescom. Though its debut was met with a stylish CG trailer that was devoid of any gameplay, a release date of March 2022 was promised and in the weeks that would follow, footage…
In lieu of a once again absent E3, Geoff Keighley has stepped up with his Summer Game Fest for new game announcements and looks at already announced titles. The opening ceremonies just concluded, and among the reveals were some big comic book themed heavy hitters. Originally set to release in March before getting delayed to…
When Sony released Marvel’s Spider-Man on the PlayStation 4 in 2018, they were the first studio in over a decade-and-a-half to lock a Spider-Man game to a console’s ecosystem since Sega did it in the great 16-bit war of the 90s. If you played on anything other than a PlayStation console and you wanted to…
After playing catch up with Sony for much of the last generation, Microsoft encouraged many to return to the Xbox ecosystem with their Game Pass subscription service that offers countless games – including big first-party offerings – to download at a low monthly cost and dedication to backwards compatibility. Right now, for example, if you…
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