Since August, one of my new favourite days of the month is when a new episode of Batman: The Telltale Series launches and tomorrow that time comes again. Arriving tomorrow on consoles (PS3/4; Xbox One) as well as PC with other devices to follow, is the third chapter in the excellent series, titled New World Order. Ahead of the…
I’m a sucker for collecting things in games, especially in open world games. I spent too many hours running around collecting treasure boxes in Assassin’s Creed II, even though my many businesses and side-missions had my pocket flush with cash; I ventured into many areas I had no right entering in inFAMOUS because there was a blast shard I…
This week saw the release of Batman: Return to Arkham and I’ve been happily replaying Batman: Arkham Asylum (going so far as to finish it with all the Riddler trophies yesterday evening)…even though I already own and have played the game before. Since the days of the PS2, GameCube and Xbox, collections and rereleases have become quite common…
After being rumoured earlier in the year, officially announced on the 18th of May for a July 26th release date that it missed due to quality issues, Batman: Return to Arkham is finally out on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Return to Arkham is a collection of the beloved Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, each of which come on their…
In what appears to be the butterfly effect of the closure of Disney’s interactive division, another developer associated with the company has closed its doors following the cancellation of Disney Infinity and the free-to-play game Marvel Avengers Alliance. Canadian based developer United Front Games, who worked on the Disney Infinity 3.0 Marvel Battlegrounds play set has closed their doors according to multiple…
Dear Insomniac, While I wasn’t there with you day one during the Disruptor and Spyro the Dragon days on the PSOne, I came to love your studio and games dearly in the PS2 era thanks to the fantastic Ratchet and Clank games. The first Ratchet game on the PS3, Future: Tools of Destruction as well as the launch title Resistance: Fall of Man were both system sellers…
The infamous Daredevil video game that was in production from former video game publisher Encore was the recent subject of a video by brilliant video game historian Liam Robertson. As part of his latest video that breaks the mold by looking at several cancelled video games as opposed to a singular one, Robertson spoke with…
I’ve stated in the past that one of the sure ways to make a great comic book game is to marry a particular license to a pre-existing game franchise that just simply fits: Batman Begins for example is simply Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell with a Batman skin; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Acclaim’s Shadow Man have a lot in common with Nintendo’s Metroid Franchise and THQ’s The Punisher, the…
If you’re a fan of Batman, and especially video games featuring the Dark Knight, October 2016 will go down as one of your favourite months ever. Batman: Arkham VR launches alongside the PlayStation VR; Batman this week; Return to Arkham, a collection of Batman: Arkham Asylum as well as City, drops next week after a delay of a few months on the PlayStation 4 and…
The mid-to-late 2000’s were an interesting time for third-party games given how many different devices were on the market. In previous generations, there would be one version of a game across several platforms, each with own compromises, and perhaps a paired down version on the Game Boy, but in that time period, there were so…
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