When it arrives in January of 2016, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers will be the first console Marvel game to feature content inspired by Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Phase Two is sssoooo 2015, what about 2016, in particular, the hotly anticipated Captain America: Civil War? While Lego Marvel’s The Avengers will release months to Civil War, which doesn’t…
One of the best parts of Lego Marvel Super Heroes was exploring the huge map of New York City: hunting down gold bricks, unlocking heroes and vehicles or just listening to the funny dialogue the random citizens would spout off as you walk, flew, or drove around. As the sequel is primarily focusing on the events of…
Announced this weekend at the PlayStation Experience among all of the new trailers for Final Fantasy VII Remake and Ni No Kuni 2 was a new offer for the PlayStation Now service that allows you to stream games on your PlayStation 4. Starting December 8th, the service will be discounted to $99 a year and eleven games from…
In 2016, I’m devoting a year to determine what is the single best Marvel console video game to date, kicking things off in January with a look at Lego Marvel Super Heroes. Today as opposed to my traditional articles and features, I want to try, emphasis on try, something a little bit different: streaming. With the help of my…
The 2015 Game Awards just wrapped up, and there were some huge surprises mixed in with all the awards that were handed out. Something that came completely out of nowhere early in the show after a brief teaser video was the announcement that Telltale, those who have worked on the likes of The Walking Dead and Fables among many others,…
And with the final review of Turok (2008) on Xbox 360, The Year of Acclaim comes to an end. Over the past twelve months I’ve looked at fifteen games through multiple console, handhelds and console generations. While some of the games I’ve looked at have confirmed that certain games are bonafided classics or huge surprises, others are…
Reboot. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot nowadays, heck even the beloved 90’s animated series Reboot is getting…umm….rebooted, and to many it’s as dirty a word as the most well-known four letter ones. For every great reinterpreting of a property, like Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, you get a Point Break, Total Recall, Terminator: Genisys, or RoboCop that fail…
Platinum Studios, it seems, has a very good relationship with mega publisher Activision. After releasing a downloadable only game based on the animated series The Legend of Korra in 2013, they went on to reinvigorate the Transformers franchise with this year’s nostalgia heavy Transformers: Devastation. Now, according to Australia’s Classification Board as well as Brazil’s Ministry of Justice, the…
Rocksteady released their final game in the Arkham trilogy this year, but the studio behind 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins is just beginning their work in the DC Universe. The studio behind Origins, as well as the Batgirl DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight titled A Matter of Family, are hiring for not one, but two, games in the DC Universe according to a hiring bulletin on their…
Next year we’ll finally get a game that ties into Marvel’s Avengers film franchise with the release of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, but once upon a time this was meant to happen four years ago. Prior to their closure, former video game publisher THQ had commissioned its Australia studio along with Blue Tongue Studios to make a…
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