Dear Insomniac, While I wasn’t there with you day one during the Disruptor and Spyro the Dragon days on the PSOne, I came to love your studio and games dearly in the PS2 era thanks to the fantastic Ratchet and Clank games. The first Ratchet game on the PS3, Future: Tools of Destruction as well as the launch title Resistance: Fall of Man were both system sellers…
After this year’s E3 in June, it felt okay to be hopeful about the future of Marvel console games. After years of free-to-play mobile games and disappointing games like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from Activision, not to mention Sega’s catalog of mostly terrible titles based on the first phase of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
During Sony’s E3 press conference when it was unveiled via a trailer that Insomniac Games was making a Spider-Man game exclusive to the PlayStation 4, my excitement level burst through the roof, and from what I’ve read and seen online in articles and discussions, I’m not the only one. During a recent episode of Huber Syndrome on…
“Is [Spider-Man] a signal of things to come? Oh, yes. Absolutely. And we can’t wait to tell the world about it.” – Jay Ong, Marvel’s vice-president of games talking with Polygon When I started a website dedicated to comic book inspired video games, I strongly felt that I was getting in on the ground floor…
In my panel at Sci-Fi on the Rock yesterday towards the conclusion, I was posed the question “what do you think VR means for the future of comic book games?”. My first go to answer because I’m a huge Spider-Man fan, and the fact that there’s a game called Windlands that is very much like a…
The turn of the century saw Marvel’s Daredevil character burst out of irrelevance thanks to the relaunch of the character from writer/filmmaker Kevin Smith. This resurgence, combined with the comic book movie boom thanks to the success of Fox’s X-Men and Sony’s Spider-Man, lead the character to get his own film starring future Batman, Ben…
Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008, the film to video game rights for all properties were licensed to publisher Sega to farm out development to whom ever they saw fit. While the results ranged from really good (Captain America: Super Soldier PS3/Xbox 360, Thor: God of Thunder Nintendo DS) to okay (The…
NOTE: SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR ARKHAM: ORIGINS/BLACKGATE/CITY This week DC announced that they’re relaunching their ongoing Suicide Squad series with a new issue one starting in the month of July with some new familiar faces (Deathstroke, Black Manta) and a freshly introduced face to the New 52 (Jokers Daughter): While it may have seem like…
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