When I was growing up and starting my seemingly life long love of video games, I started with the NES, which didn’t have the best track record when it came to licensed games, at least starting out. When I became aware of the X-Men through comics, the animated series, Marvel trading cards and the Toy…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 X2: Wolverine’s Revenge is a game that is very deceptive in it’s marketing. It was released close the the release of X2: X-Men United in theaters, features the “X2” logo, Hugh Jackman’s likeness on the cover art, as well as Patrick Stewart as the voice of Professor X. In…
NOTE: GAME WAS PLAYED ON iPOD TOUCH 5 A trend that has developed with every major comic themed film since 2013 is that it’s accompanied by a mobile game tie-in: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and more recently The Amazing Spider-Man 2 all had games launched on various mobile…
For someone who’s trying to build the most comprehensive hub for all things comic book game related, I feel ashamed that this got past me. Coming tomorrow from mobile developer Glitchsoft is the video game tie-in to this coming Friday’s blockbuster X-Men film, Days of Future Past. Players can take on the roles of classic X-Men…
Man, what a disappointment. “But Blair,” you ask, “how could you be POSSIBLY be disappointed in the Game Boy Advance version of a movie tie-in game that launched next to a film that nearly killed the X-Men film franchise as we know it?” That is indeed a fair question, so I’ll elaborate: Upon researching the…
The X-Men films are no stranger to tie-in video games: A few days before the original X-Men’s release date of July 14th, 2000 gamers were able to pick up the underrated PSOne fighting game X-Men: Mutant Academy from publisher Activision, and several weeks before the first weekend of May release of X2: X-Men United, a…
Last month Disney Interactive Media announced that there would be an Avengers Facebook game entitled Marvel: Avengers Alliance from developer Playdom. The initial details on the game was that the player would take control of a male or female S.H.I.E.L.D agent who would recruit various heroes from the Marvel Universe to combat a global…
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