When I look back at 2024, there were a lot of great games that people enjoyed but personally, I didn’t buy many new ones. Mostly I stuck to things to cover for this site and a few safe bets like the remake of Silent Hill 2 and Astro Bot late in the year. Once upon…
There are too many years to count that have been hailed as “the best year ever” for video games. One that comes to mind in recent memory – if you count 18 years ago recent – is 2007. That fall saw the release of brand new franchises like Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Assassin’s Creed and Mass…
On Friday Jason Schreier, reporting for Bloomberg, released an article about the struggles that WB Games has faced under outgoing executive David Haddad since around 2015. You can read the full article HERE, but to sum up some key points, 2024 was a bad year for the publisher, especially as it related to comic book…
Growing up, I was starved for media based on things that I loved, so much so that I found shows like Mortal Kombat: Conquest on TBS appointment viewing each week. I knew it wasn’t great, and it barely had anything to do with Mortal Kombat, but when there wasn’t really any alternative, you settled for…
Last weekend, Arcade1up won bragging rights at EVO when they were ones who officially got to change the #FREEMVC2 campaign to #FREEDMVC2, even going as far as to have apparel with the hashtag printed on it for staff at the event. After a brief revival in 2009 via a digital only release, Marvel vs. Capcom…
Yesterday, well known fighting game content creator, Maximilian Dood, got the hashtag #FREEMVC2 trending as high as 5th place on Twitter in the US. This was due to a video Max produced wherein he pleads his case about why Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is in desperate need of a comeback. As…
Bill Rosemann, VP and Head of Creative at Marvel Games, has gone on the record stating that there’s no interconnected Marvel Gaming Universe akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite a statement that all console games under the “Marvel’s” umbrella take place in their own reality though, three of them: Marvel’s Spider-Man; Marvel’s Iron Man…
During the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, CES for short, Arcade1up announced their new line of cabinets, and easily the most exciting reveal was the return of Konami’s beloved arcade game, X-Men. Not only does the unit include the classic brawler, but also Data East’s Captain America and the Avengers, a game not seen since the…
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but 2020 has been kinda bad. Shocking, I know. It didn’t start off that way though, at least not for me. Well, we DID have a blizzard so bad it was dubbed “Snowmageddon” where I live, but after that things started to look up after a rough 2019. Months…
Throughout last week, I’ve bounced back and forth on whether I published my review for Marvel’s Avengers too early or if I was too harsh on it. Even though I felt disappointed with the finished product, I still found myself logging in every day to play for an hour or two, maybe even more. At the…
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