There’s lots of reason to play video games: As a form of escapism entertainment; To enjoy a story; To learn and challenge your skills with interesting gameplay mechanics or sometimes just because you’re bored and want to fill some time. The Tick, based on the comic book as well as the animated series of the same…
The ladies are getting a lot of love in this latest batch of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers character reveals. New additions to the roster are Squirrel Girl, who also appeared in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, along with new comers including the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan (SO EXCITED); Lady Thor and Speed from the Young Avengers. By the…
Those hoping to get a new Lego Marvel game under their stocking this holiday season are going to be a little disappointed, however fans won’t have to wait that long into the new year before they’re back to smashing items and collecting studs with their favourite Marvel super heroes and villains. Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, a pseudo-sequel…
With the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 80’s, it looked like everyone was trying to create the next big anthropomorphic property: There was the Battletoads video game franchise, Biker Mice from Mars, and Street Sharks among a few others. One of the earliest attempts that spawned a short-lived animated series and a one wave action…
What do you do with any video game you intend to spawn into a series after a breakout hit? Why you spin it off into a handheld title of course. In the 90’s this meant making a Game Boy game, which is exactly what Acclaim did when they released Turok: battle of the Bionosaurs in late 1997.…
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT CONTAINED WITHIN Ask a lot of people who there personal favourite Batman is, and they won’t say Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale or Ben Affleck. They’ll say it’s Kevin Conroy, the legendary actor who started voicing Bruce Wayne/Batman in the classic Batman: The Animated Series and has continued with the…
Through the month of July, I’ve looked at all the Fantastic Four games across several generations of consoles and handhelds. While of the seven games I’ve looked at I would only really recommended you at least try two of them, some are definitely better than the rest. To close out Fantastic Four month, here’s the…
In August, I’m taking you back to a time when we rented Nintendo tapes, Sega was giving Nintendo a run for its money, bracelets slapped on, pants snapped up the side and game news came from magazines. Every Friday in August I’m going to be looking at a game every Friday that could only exist…
2005’s Fantastic Four was a decent action brawler inspired by a movie that was pretty average to mediocre depending on who you ask. In 2007, both the film and video game received a sequel in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer with the movie sticking at Fox Studios while the game property changed hands from Activision and…
After the extremely disappointing day one DLC that came with Batman: Arkham Knight, my optimism about the stand alone Batgirl DLC from WB Games Montreal, titled A Matter of Family, was understandably shaken. Both the Harley Quinn and Red Hood expansion packs were pretty pointless and added little to the story of the main game, let alone the Arkham series as…
Comic Book Video Games 