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…
Soul Time Space Mind Reality Power Each of the six Infinity Gems, or Stones as they’re referred to now, provide their wielder with near Godlike power, but when combined, like as they were in the classic story The Infinity Gauntlet and next week’s highly anticipated Marvel Avengers: Infinity War, their combined might is multiplied to even greater proportions with…
Co-created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and debuting in the pages of the Fantastic Four in 1966, it would be forty years after his introduction to the world that Black Panther would make any appearances in a video game. It was in the massive Marvel crossover action-RPG Marvel Ultimate Alliance released in 2006 that players would be able…
Fighting games should not be designed for players like me, yet in 2017, developers like Netherrealm went out of their way to make sure that they were. Fighting games were born in the arcade where two opponents would stand shoulder-to-shoulder determining who would have to put in a quarter to continue playing and who could…
Announced in November as one of the downloadable fighters for Injustice 2’s Fighter Pack 3 along with the Atom and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Netherrealm today has debuted the first gameplay footage of the Enchantress. The character is perhaps best known from 2016’s Suicide Squad where she was the villain the titular team went up against. The Enchantress, a…
Shaun Escayg, the creative director and writer of last year’s Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, seems to have traded the likes of Nathan Drake, Chloe Frazer and the post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us for Captain America’s shield and Thor’s enchanted hammer. Escayg joined the prolific Naughty Dog during the development of The Last of Us and has had his hands…
Following the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 level expansion from next month, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 has added another round of DLC in the form of characters from Marvel’s newest super team, the Champions. Spun off from the Avengers, the team is made up of legacy characters like Ironheart (a new African-American character who is basically the…
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…
2017 is coming to a close, and what a year it has been: The total site views for Comic Gamers Assemble eclipsed 100,000 views earlier in the year; The article count for the site also went well over 1,000 individual pieces; Over 50 reviews were written and published and this has been one of the single busiest…
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…
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