“Despite all this spin-off talk, Rosemann isn’t actively overlapping his universe of interconnected games — at least not yet. It’s more like a Spider-Verse. “Each game is in the Marvel universe, but they’re in their own reality, if you will,” he says. “Currently, our plan is to keep each game set in its own Marvel…
In early 2019, I left a job I held for eight years on a gamble that I could make it in the insurance industry. A barrier to entry was that before you could officially begin training for full employment, you had to pass a test in order to obtain the necessary license, a feat many…
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…
There’s a certain, very loud, subsection of the internet who are upset for some unknown reason about the announcement of Ms. Marvel as a playable heroine in the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers and the role she plays in the game’s narrative. From what’s known of the story so far, after a tragic event known as A-Day occurs –…
One of the more engaging Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame reviews I’ve seen has been from Victor Lucas of The Electric Playground. In it, Victor compares the journey these movies have taken over the past eleven years with that of his own, how his team was invited to do the making of documentary for Sega’s Iron Man and how the success of…
This is perhaps one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to write, and I think deep down we’ve all been preparing for it, but today it happened. Today, November 12th, 2018, we lost Stan Lee. I saw the news as I was at work, and I honestly was considering asking my employer if I…
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…
“the funny thing that Marvel and I talk a lot about, is this is the Iron Man, this is the one that’s going to start it off.” From the article Marvel Exec: Spider-Man ‘Kicks off new era of console games” from IGN. This quote taken from the Kinda Funny spoilercast between host Greg Miller and creative director on Marvel’s Spider-Man Bryan…
Being a teenager in the late 90’s, I loved to play video games of all types, even those that many of my peers deemed were just “for kids”. Early games on the Nintendo 64 like Super Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing were titles I always kept coming back to, and when Nintendo was set to launch a game…
Fighting games should not be designed for players like me, yet in 2017, developers like Netherrealm went out of their way to make sure that they were. Fighting games were born in the arcade where two opponents would stand shoulder-to-shoulder determining who would have to put in a quarter to continue playing and who could…
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