It’s pretty astonishing how far developers have come with the mobile platform in such a short period of time. Where once game designers were trying to emulate traditional games on a touch screen with virtual buttons and sticks/directional pads, now the best of the best in the mobile space are games that are intelligently designed…
Say what you will about publisher Activision, but under their watch they successfully reinvigorated the Spider-Man video game franchise with developers Neversoft and Treyarch at the turn of the millennium. After the release of 2005’s Ultimate Spider-Man however, things seemed to be taking a downward spiral in terms of quality for the once well-regarded franchise.…
Spider-Man has a history on the Nintendo DS handheld going back as far to the systems launch in 2004 with Spider-Man 2. Since the inception of the machine, hardly a year has gone by where the web-slinging wonder hasn’t made an appearance and a lot of the titles featuring the character are great games, including…
Batman has been featured in an animated series, whether his own or part of an ensemble, since Batman: The Animated Series debuted in the early 90’s. Where there’s a cartoon, there’s inevitably a video game or two to capitalize on its popularity and Batman had them in spades, however the well had seemingly dried up…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/13/2013 Iron Man 2 comes to us courtesy of studio Griptonite games, a developer I’ve taking a liking to for crafting some great superhero themed games like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Shattered dimensions (also for the NDS) and Marvel Super Hero Squad: the Infinity Gauntlet. To simply sum up…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/13/2013 Iron Man 2 for both the Wii and PSP are similar to the first Iron Man film tie-in games in that the development for each of the consoles was handled by a different studio. While a rebranded Secret Level would continue on to craft Iron Man 2 for the…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 Iron Man 2 would once again be developed by Secret Level games, who were renamed Sega Studios San Francisco. The hope from publisher Sega was that by bringing in Secret Level under the official Sega umbrella the studio would be able to recover and make a better product than…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 When the original Iron Man hit theaters in 2008, publisher Sega launched an Iron Man game across every relevant gaming platform at the time. It would mark the first time that an Iron Man game would be released for a home console (not counting handhelds) where the hero would…
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