With the proliferation of comic book movies in cinemas nowadays, everyone has seen there fair share of iconic origin stories: Peter Parker getting bitten by a radioactive spider, gaining fantastical abilities that through a twist of fate cost him the life of his Uncle Ben; a young Bruce Wayne witnessing his parents killed before his…
Nestled on the eastern side of the island of Newfoundland on the Avalon Peninsula is the town I grew up in: Harbour Grace. A tidbit on Wikipedia puts the population of the town at around 3,000 people as of 2006, but I would wager it has shrunk by a significant margin since then. Today you’ll…
Throughout most of 2019, I found myself unemployed, and to keep my head above water mentally, I threw myself into various projects. One such project was a short, 30,000 word book of sorts about what it was like to grow up adoring video games in my small town of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland in Canada. I…
2020 is a big year for one of the most popular fighting games ever released. It was on this day in the year 2000 that Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes released in arcades. The sixth entry in Capcom’s portfolio of Marvel Comics themed fighting games and the fourth in the “Vs. Series”, Marvel…
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…
This week’s forecast has called for a storm of video game delays. On top of moving Marvel’s Avengers from May 15th to September, Square-Enix delayed their hotly anticipated remake of the beloved Final Fantasy VII into April. Following those were CD Projekt Red’s follow-up to The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077,which followed Marvel’s Avengers, into the fall and…
Announced in early 2017 via a brief teaser, the Square-Enix published, Crystal Dynamics developed – with support from Eidos Montreal – Marvel’s Avengers made its grand debut at last year’s E3 with its debut trailer. Among many things, including the cast of playable characters and a general impression of how they would possibly control, the video…
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,…
It looks like the second season of The Wolf Among Us wasn’t the only surprise the newly formed Telltale 2.0 had up their sleeves. Leaked last week but officially released today, both Batman: The Telltale Series and Batman: The Enemy Within have returned with a new look of sorts. Dubbed “Shadows Mode,” the inexpensive downloadable update, provided you own the…
Last night the annual Game Awards took place, and while we didn’t get that new Batman game announcement everyone has been patiently waiting for, nor a shocking surprise like the unveiling of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order last year, there were still a few notable reveals sprinkled throughout the evening. The first was during the…
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