COMIC GAMERS ASSEMBLE GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS (PART 2)

THE BEST REASON TO GET A SECOND JOB AWARD WINNER: DISNEY INFINITY 2.0: MARVEL SUPER HEROES (MULTI) The new “toys-to-life” category that has emerged in this decade thanks to Activision’s Skylanders is not a genre to be taken lightly, and it’s even a greater force to be recokoned with now that Disney has entered the…

COMIC GAMERS ASSEMBLE GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS (PART 1)

The presents have been opened with care, or tore open with little to no regard in my case, and with New Year’s just around the corner, it means that 2014 is coming to a rapid close. This has been a big year for Comic Gamers Assemble and to celebrate I’m putting off the first ever…

REVIEW: BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS (Wii U)/WHAT’S NEW FOR Wii U

The relavitely new “Batman: Arkham” franchise is something of an anomloy in today’s video game climate. Normally when a game comes out it’s mere months, or in the case of Assassin’s Creed as of late, right after a new chapter comes out before you’re already hearing about the next installment arriving in a year’s time.…

REVIEW: BATMAN RETURNS (SEGA GENESIS)

Batman Returns on the NES is a pretty terrific game. Batman Returns on the SNES is a fantastic game. Batman Returns on the Sega Genesis is one of those constant reminders of why I’m forever grateful that I owned a SNES growing up as opposed to Sega’s machine that I wished I had after being…

BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT PREQUEL DIGITAL COMIC COMING IN EARLY 2015

Following in the steps of Batman: Arkham City, as well as its fellow WB Games production Injustice: Gods Among Us which still has an ongoing comic series and the upcoming The Wolf Among Us, the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight will also get a prequel comic series in early 2015. Written by Peter J. Tomasi, the…

REVIEW: BATMAN RETURNS (SNES)

Like Sunsoft before them, Konami produced both an 8 and 16-bit versions of a Batman game of the same name in Batman Returns. Unlike Sunsoft however, who somehow managed to make worse games despite having access to better hardware in both the cases of Batman on Sega Genesis and Batman: Revenge of the Joker, Returns…

REVIEW: BATMAN RETURNS (NES)

When it came to adapting Batman’s escapades from the big screen in video game format the first time around, Sunsoft more or less had the monopoly on the character, producing games on everything from the NES, Game Boy and Sega Genesis. For the sequel to Batman, aptly named Batman Returns, the video game licensing was shared…