REVIEW: XIII (XBOX ORIGINAL)

2003 was an important year for Ubisoft. After launching one of the most prestigious franchises in the stealth genre one year early with the release of the then Xbox exclusive Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, they tried to launch not one, not two, but three potential new franchises in the fall of ’03 with their major releases: Prince of Persia: The Sands of…

SONY PLAYERS SCORE EXCLUSIVE ANT-MAN AND CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR CONTENT FOR LEGO MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS ON PS3/4

TT Games’ Arthur Parsons just dropped a huge bombshell announcement for PlayStation owners less than two weeks from the launch of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers. Via the PlayStation Blog, Parsons revealed that at launch nine characters from the highly anticipated Captain America: Civil War will be available at launch in a character pack. The characters are as follows: Captain America; Iron…

COMIC GAMERS ASSEMBLE 2016 TOYS-TO-LIFE PREVIEW

Toys and video games have gone hand in hand for years with little plastic representations of video game characters being sold on the shelves of specialty stores and toy departments, but it was really only until recently with the popularity of games like Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Playmotion and now Lego Dimensions that the two have truly become one. The…

ACHIEVEMENTS LEAKED FOR TMNT: MUTANTS IN MANHATTAN

Ok, now the leaks are just getting out of hand. The Platinum developed/Activision published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan hasn’t been announced officially, yet it’s already suffered three major leak confirming its existence: The first came in early December when several classifications boards outed its existence, followed by a discovery of the supposed cover art…

IS IT REALLY THAT GOOD? STAR WARS: SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE (NINTENDO 64)

1996. Nineteen years before The Force Awakens, three years before the start of the dreaded “prequel trilogy” and even before the slippery slope of remasters where the phrase “Greedo shot first” got its origin. In 1996 Lucasfilm set to expand the Star Wars canon with a multimedia project that would span a novel, a comic book series, and…

REVIEW: COMIX ZONE (SEGA GENESIS)

I’ve talked about a lot of games based upon comic book properties, but never once have I covered a game that’s set inside a comic book. To rectify this, today I’m going to be talking about Comix Zone, a game that while not based on a comic book property is a must-play title for fans of comic books, video…