Growing up as a video game fan in the 90’s couldn’t have easy for a female. Sure, there was Joanna Dark to look up to and even Lara Croft was a no-nonsense, intelligent role model who was just as comfortable in a museum as in a shooting gallery, but all those qualities that made the…
The rush to be the next Ninja Turtles was one thing in the 90’s, but the desire to be the next X-Men was another. Marvel’s merry band of mutants were easily one of the most popular and best selling comics of the era, with countless spin-off titles, a line of action figures, video games and…
In August, I’m taking you back to a time when we rented Nintendo tapes, Sega was giving Nintendo a run for its money, bracelets slapped on, pants snapped up the side and game news came from magazines. Every Friday in August I’m going to be looking at a game every Friday that could only exist…
Telltale has been pretty quite on the The Walking Dead front lately, and you can’t really blame them with all the work they’ve taken on, like Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlans, and for the first time ever a game that will be their very own IP. Not wanting people to think they’ve stopped thinking about the…
This week saw the launch of Spawn: Resurrection, an attempt by Image to inject life back into the character made popular in the 90’s by creator Todd McFarlane by bringing original Spawn Al Simmons back from the dead (undead?) and hiring writer Paul Jenkins (Marvel Knight’s Inhumans) to oversee the character’s new direction. Two Halloween’s ago I reviewed every Spawn…
Its been a while since Todd McFarlane’s 90’s sensation Spawn has appeared in a video game. The last time anyone was able to play as the resurrected Hellspawn was in 2003 when he appeared in both the Xbox SKU of Soul Calibur II and Spawn: Armageddon, each from publisher Namco, now Namco-Bandai. With a new take on the character…
A little over a month we caught our first glimpse at the Clementine action figure, the first ever figure produced from Telltale’s The Walking Dead, coming from McFarlane Toys. Given that today is Black Friday, one of the busiest and let’s face it, craziest shopping days of the year, the pre-sale option has become available for…
On December 5th the 2014 Game Awards, once called the VGA’s or VGX, will be live-streamed online and yesterday the list of categories and nominees were unveiled, among them several comic book games. Telltale took took honors in the “Developer of the Year” category along side nominations for both The Wolf Among Us and The Walking…
It was around this time last year that people were either playing their brand new PS4’s, impatiently waiting for Microsoft’s Xbox One or holding out until Rocksteady dropped the trailer for the next “Arkham” game which we found out earlier this year would be titled Batman: Arkham Knight. This is the time when these machines really…
Todd McFarlane may be as well known today for the amazing toys his McFarlane Toys company produces over his decades spanning work in the comic industry. Lately the company has turned its attention to making figures based on the juggernaut The Walking Dead franchise, making collectibles based on both the long running comic as well as…
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