I’m proud to announce that my second book, The Avengers in Video Games: A Guide to Solo Adventures and Mighty Marvel Team-Ups, with Creator Interviews, is now available for pre-order from places like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Unlike The Web of Spider-Man Games which was self-published and digital only, The Avengers in Video Games…
Throughout last week, I’ve bounced back and forth on whether I published my review for Marvel’s Avengers too early or if I was too harsh on it. Even though I felt disappointed with the finished product, I still found myself logging in every day to play for an hour or two, maybe even more. At the…
Just like Marvel’s Spider-Man with Hostile Takeover, Marvel’s Avengers received it’s own prologue novel, The Extinction Key, to further build upon that game’s expanded universe. The book deals with the team battling against the resurrected Zodiac, an ancient organization that for centuries has tried to rewrite the world with an ancient, key like artifact. If you’re looking for a way…
NOTE: Played on a PlayStation 4 (Slim) from a copy purchased by the author. “I made it for all the right reasons…now this.” – Tony Stark The Avengers have existed for over half a century, but their star has never burned brighter than in the last decade or so thanks to the shared Marvel Cinematic…
For those who pre-ordered Marvel’s Avengers on PlayStation 4 and were lucky to get in, a pre-launch beta was held this past weekend, allowing players to sample a tiny portion of the single-player offerings and a decent representation of the multiplayer suite. Out of the gate, the beta painted a somewhat troubling picture for a game that…
This past weekend, The Electric Playground published a video celebrating the legacy of the Nintendo 3DS, a video I was lucky enough to be included in. The Nintendo 3DS marks the companies last dedicated handheld, if you discount the fact that the Nintendo Switch now comes in a portable only variety. Though it had a bit of…
The climax of December 31st this year won’t just mark the end of another calendar year, but also the closure of an entire decade, and as we roll into the 20’s, it’s time to look back at a ten years of comic book video games. This decade has been an interesting one for comic book,…
The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has given birth to a new golden age of Marvel video games that started with last year’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and will continue with Marvel’s Iron Man VR, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order and (hopefully) whatever Square-Enix has cooking with their Avengers Project. Rewind eleven years though, and it was a…
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When the first Thor film came out in 2011, there were three unique titles released alongside it under the banner Thor: God of Thunder from Sega. 2013’s Thor: The Dark World only saw a free-to-play mobile game release next to it; however a truncated version of the films events were played out in a bonus…
