Yesterday a firm release date for the 3.0 edition of Disney Infinity was announced for August 30th along with a ton of other Star Wars and Disney figures. With comic-con coverage ramping up, it was revealed further today that two new Marvel figures will join the new Star Wars and Disney offerings: Ultron and Hulkbuster Iron Man,…
WB Games, TT Games and Lego have got quite the busy year ahead of them what with Lego Jurassic World coming this Friday, Lego Dimensions hitting in September, and Lego Worlds in beta. It would almost make you think that the announcement from earlier in the year that there was going to be a Lego Marvel’s The Avengers game this fall was a…
Disney already has one video game property that requires the purchase of additional figures with Disney Infinity, and now they’re adding a second franchise that’s somewhat similar, but with a twist. Launching in October at a cost of $120, with pre-orders being accepted in July, is Playmotion, a role-playing toy that combines mobile devices with figures and…
May the 4th has come and gone and today the third iteration of Disney Infinity has officially been announced which as many had guessed is heavily Star Wars themed. More details are expected to come in this months issue of Game Informer, but one interesting take away from the cover is the inclusion of some…
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…
Thanks (or no thanks, depending on how you look at it) to Sega, every one of the Marvel Phase One films launched alongside a promotional video game that landed on nearly every single device at the time, save one. While Sega had each of the solo heroes rights tied up to make games for, when…
DeNA, the developer behind the mobile Marvel-themed card game War of Heroes, is returning to that universe with the upcoming Marvel Might Heroes. Heroes is described as a real-time co-operative brawler for up to four players featuring dozens of heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe redesigned in an SD (super deformed) cartoonish manner. From DeNA: “Marvel Mighty…
The excitement from the announcement that there’s going to be a Lego Marvel’s The Avengers coming this fall still hasn’t worn off and its got me thinking about what I would like to see in the game. Given that the game is many months away, we know very little about it other than that the base game…
When it arrived in 2005, Batman Begins existed in the era of mid-2000’s super hero movies wherein the hero, or heroes, played all by themselves, examples being Spider-Man, X-Men, and Daredevil among a few others. Begins was a film that showed the world just how amazing a Batman film could be in the right hands,…
The Nintendo DS. Once a system I thought would spell the demise of the Nintendo handheld as we knew it, especially in the wake of Sony’s PSP device, went on to become a machine I would own multiple iterations of and spend countless hours playing. Games like Elite Beat Agents, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, the…
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