NEWS ROUND UP: TMNT: SPLINTERED FATE GETS NEW DLC AND MARVEL VS. CAPCOM SHADOW DROPS ON XBOX

Last year, the once Apple Arcade exclusive roguelike Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate made its way to both Nintendo Switch and PC. Back in August of 2024, developer Super Evil Megacorp unveiled a roadmap to extend the life of their game that included DLC and the first piece dropped this week. Titled “Casey Jones…

REVIEW: MARVEL VS. CAPCOM FIGHTING COLLECTION: ARCADE CLASSICS

DEVELOPER: Capcom PUBLISHER: Capcom REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a digital copy purchased by the author. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This review will focus on the offline offerings of the game exclusively. Marvel in the mid-90s was far from the pop culture juggernaut it is now. Where nowadays it’s a branch of a multi-billion dollar corporation, there…

MARVEL VS. CAPCOM FIGHTING COLLECTION – ARCADE CLASSICS GETS NOT ONE, BUT TWO RELEASE DATES

Capcom made the dreams of countless many come true when, during a Nintendo Direct in June, they unveiled the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection – Arcade Classics. Collecting every Capcom developed Marvel game from the 90s/early 00s – with the exception of the SNES exclusive X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and Marvel Super Heroes in War of…

THE VIDEO GAME LEGACY OF X-MEN TO X-MEN ’97

WARNING: This article gets into mild-spoilers for X-Men ’97 up to its ninth episode. It goes without saying that X-Men: The Animated Series and its phenomenal revival, X-Men ’97, are among the greatest superhero adaptations into any medium ever. From the moment the earworm of a theme song hit you all the way back in…

MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2 IS BACK, BUT WITH A CATCH

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is easily one of the greatest comic book video games of all time without a question. Whether you’re a competitive fighting game player or just like to see beloved characters fill the screen with giant explosions, it’s impossible not to get sucked in by its gorgeous sprite…

CHAPTER 3: RENTING

There’s a scene in the Kevin Smith film Clerks where Randal Graves, a clerk at a mom and pop video store, goes to a Blockbuster-esque video store called Big Choice video to rent a movie – there’s a reason, you just have to see the film if you haven’t. Upon seeing the sheer amount of…

CHAPTER 2: MY ORIGIN STORY

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…

MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2’S BIG PROBLEM

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…