DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER: Super Evil Megacorp REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. For a while, it looked like the best days of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the video game space was disappearing in the rearview mirror. Publishers like Activision, Ubisoft and development partners like PlatinumGames tried to capture the lightning…
The Clone High meets Marvel mobile title Avengers Academy, scheduled to arrive in early 2016 from TinyCo, just received a new trailer that still doesn’t show exactly how the game looks like when played, but provides a glimpse of some of the reimagined Marvel cast including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Loki, Hulk and Black Widow. While not shown…
Despite what your feelings on Marvel’s mobile video game portfolio, personally I wish they would make traditional games like WB Games does with their Arkham franchise, you can’t deny that their offerings have not been diverse: There’s a puzzle/RPG hybrid in Marvel Puzzle Quest; A fighting game in Marvel Contest of Champions and an action-RPG in Marvel Future Fight among many others. Now…
Fall is the time of year when people throw down big dollars and all the AAA releases that publishers flood onto the market, your Call of Duty’s, Assassin’s Creed, Halo’s, etc, however for me this past weekend, the game I couldn’t take myself away from was Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign on my PS4. It’s an incredibly simple, yet…
Say what you will about Marvel’s reliance on mobile games being less compelling than say, the brilliant Batman: Arkham Knight, but their ability to update their current slate of games to what’s going on in the world of comics is pretty amazing. Case in point, today it was announced that the new Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099…
Lego Dimensions too expensive? Lego Marvel’s the Avengers just too far away? Don’t have a dedicated handheld device other than your phone or tablet? Whatever excuse you need to pick it up, Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is now available to purchase on iOS devices. From the brief glimpses of gameplay in the game’s launch trailer, it appears this is…
2015 really is the year of Spider-Gwen. After becoming a breakout hit in the Edge of Spider-Verse mini-series last year, the new take on the classic character went on to get her own hit series, was a part of the main Spider-Verse event and is fighting alongside other spider-powered people in the Secret Wars tie-in mini-series, Spider-Verse. Amongst all the love…
We’ve taken quite the journey since the post-credits scene featuring Nick Fury showed up in 2008’s Iron Man: The Avengers have assembled twice; Spider-Man’s tangled web of rights have finally allowed him to join the MCU and we’ve seen characters on the big-screen that we never would’ve imagined would show up like the Winter Soldier and Rocket Raccoon. Marvel…
For every “Telltale partners with Marvel” news story that comes out reminding us that you can get excited about a possible future for Marvel video games, here comes another mobile free-to-start game to bring you back to earth. Marvel Future Fight is another in a long line of mobile games from Marvel and is an…
It’s pretty astonishing how far developers have come with the mobile platform in such a short period of time. Where once game designers were trying to emulate traditional games on a touch screen with virtual buttons and sticks/directional pads, now the best of the best in the mobile space are games that are intelligently designed…
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