I love Capcom’s survival-horror franchise Resident Evil, and it’s surprising to me how I got to this point. Growing up, I admittedly was a huge scaredy cat. My earliest memory of going to the movies is cowering in the back seat of my parents station wagon at a drive-in screening of Ghostbusters II when Viggo…
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…
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…
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…
From Nintendo to Sony and Sega, game companies are seeing the value in releasing their classic video game content in nostalgia shells. New to the arena is a new challenger, Capcom, but their definition of a dedicated device is a little bit more ambitious. Capcom Home Arcade is a dedicated plug-and-play, two-player arcade stick shaped…
It’s been over a year since the launch of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and you would barely even know the game came out at all. The announcement of the return of Capcom’s beloved Vs. Series was met with excitement in late 2016, but throughout 2017 and until the game’s release, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was dealt blow after blow from a…
Capcom has done a tremendous job this generation making their back catalog of franchises and games matter again. From bringing the GameCube exclusive Resident Evil and Resident Evil 0 to non-Nintendo systems for the first time to surprising us with the out of nowhere Disney Afternoon Collection, it’s never been a better time to be a fan of Capcom. Last…
Before the September launch of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, Capcom announced the DLC roster of characters that would be added to the game before the end of 2017. So far Sigma, Black Panther and Monster Hunter have been added, and now we know when to expect the remaining trio. Three Marvel characters: Winter Soldier; Black Widow and Marvel Vs.…
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These days, what gets me excited about a new Marvel Vs. Capcom game is seeing what Marvel heroes and villains that will make an appearance, but once upon a time, that wasn’t the case. Around the time the series was being ported to the original PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast, I was far more interested in the…
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