In March 2016, cinematic history will be made. For the first time in a live-action film, two of DC’s, nay comics, biggest icons Batman and Superman will share the screen and square off in Warner Bros. Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice. For each Friday for the month of March, I’ll be looking at games where the…
Announced this weekend at the PlayStation Experience among all of the new trailers for Final Fantasy VII Remake and Ni No Kuni 2 was a new offer for the PlayStation Now service that allows you to stream games on your PlayStation 4. Starting December 8th, the service will be discounted to $99 a year and eleven games from…
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…
Fighting games as a genre go hand in hand with super hero comic books. As much as any fans of super hero books say they read for things like story, characters, plot, art, etc, they can’t lie and say they don’t also love a good old-fashioned throw down complete with epic splash pages, larger than…
Following in the steps of Batman: Arkham City, as well as its fellow WB Games production Injustice: Gods Among Us which still has an ongoing comic series and the upcoming The Wolf Among Us, the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Knight will also get a prequel comic series in early 2015. Written by Peter J. Tomasi, the…
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…
First it was an award-winning comic series, then it became a game by critically acclaimed darlings Telltale Games, now the game based on a comic…will be a comic. As part of its DC DIGITAL: DOWNLOAD THIS! panel today during this year’s comic-con, DC Comics released the existence of a new digital comic set in the world of The…
Green Arrow hasn’t yet received a video game of his own, something that I personally believe could very well happen in the future, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been avoiding the video game space, having appeared in several games dating back to 1995. The first game that ever featured the Emerald Archer, as well…
I had to pick the title for this piece just right, as I didn’t want to trick people into thinking I was going to step onto the landmine argument of who’s better, DC or Marvel. Short answer: both are great, don’t worry about the publisher of your comics, just worry about the story, art, and characters,…
One of the great things about picking up a video game based on a comic book is that you get to inhabit the role of your favorite super hero. Whether it’s swinging around the streets of New York as Spider-Man, soaring through the air as the Man of Steel or frightening foes from the shadows…
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