DEVELOPERS: Crystal Dynamics/Eidos-Montréal/Nixxes PUBLISHER: Square Enix REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 4 (Slim) from a copy purchased by the author. It’s hard to believe it, but it will soon be one year since the launch of Marvel’s Avengers. Though its debut and first few months did the game very little favors, 2021 has been a good year…
DEVELOPER: Toybox Inc. PUBLISHER: Nintendo REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. Women have not had it easy in comic book video games. Sure, popular heroines like Wonder Woman, Black Widow, Gamora, Captain Marvel and others are nearly always present in large ensemble games, but the amount of comic book games…
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…
In the fall of 2013, the TT Games developed LEGO Marvel Super Heroes was released, and without an ounce of hyperbole, it’s still today one of, if not the, best Marvel Comics video games ever released. Though the LEGO games that have arrived since then, both of the DC and Marvel variety, have made many…
Yesterday, well known fighting game content creator, Maximilian Dood, got the hashtag #FREEMVC2 trending as high as 5th place on Twitter in the US. This was due to a video Max produced wherein he pleads his case about why Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is in desperate need of a comeback. As…
Before the next-generation version of Marvel’s Avengers launched in March, Square Enix unveiled the next major playable character coming to the game was none other than Black Panther in an expansion dubbed War for Wakanda. As part of their E3 presentation, the publisher of the Crystal Dynamics helmed title dropped the news that War for…
Ahead of the War for Wakanda expansion coming to Marvel’s Avengers next month, Square Enix is pulling out all the stops to build up excitement for their games as a service title starting as early as next week. On July 27th, an update will introduce an Omega-Level Threat mission. This will be a challenging remix…
Superman is one video games’ longest running protagonist, and he even has the Guinness World Record to prove it. Despite this coveted distinction, the Man of Steel hasn’t had much luck headlining his own game. This fall will mark the 15th anniversary of the release of EA’s Superman Returns, the last console game to star…
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