2013’s Lego Marvel Super Heroes was a game that was so fantastic that it was awarded Comic Gamers Assemble’s best Marvel console video game of all time. While I was of the few who really loved 2016 Lego Marvel’s the Avengers, what I, and I’m sure many, deep down really wanted was a sequel to Lego Marvel Super Heroes which…
Prior to 2013, developer TT Games had already worked on a huge number of licenses as part of their incredibly fun and addictive Lego series of games: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Caped Crusader, Batman. Being owned by publisher WB Games, who in turn are owned by parent company Time Warner who…
In 2016, I’m devoting a year to determine what is the single best Marvel console video game to date, kicking things off in January with a look at Lego Marvel Super Heroes. Today as opposed to my traditional articles and features, I want to try, emphasis on try, something a little bit different: streaming. With the help of my…
In 2015 I looked at Acclaim’s roster of in-house produced comic book video games, and in 2016 I’m taking the year-long feature concept further and will determine what is the greatest Marvel console video game of all time. There are some things I’d like to clarify before the feature starts in the new year, the…
Yesterday was a big day for comic book fans, and I’m not just saying that because Batman: Arkham Knight finally arrived to download and buy in stores. The other headline grabbing article was that Sony and Marvel announced not only the new Spider-Man who will appear alongside The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy in the…
Anyone who frequents this site knows I’m a huge fan of the Lego series of games, especially Lego Marvel Super Heroes, and in watching the Honest Trailer for Lego Marvel, I am so guilty of every point they bring up. I give a lot of leeway to the Lego series as it scratches an itch a lot of…
While watching/listening to this week’s episode of GT Time, the panel discussed the game announcements of this week, including Lego’s entry into the toys-to-life genre, Lego Dimensions. Frequent panel member, Brandon Jones, an obsessive Disney Infinity collector, firmly believes that with Lego moving into this space that we’ll no longer see traditional retail Lego games and that…
Netflix’s Daredevil series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe becomes available to view this Friday and I, like many, couldn’t be more excited. I didn’t grow up loving Daredevil initially, but when I seriously got into comics in my early teens I got quite the introduction thanks to Kevin Smith’s “Guardian Devil” story under the Marvel Knights…
With all of the TV shows and movies coming out based on comic book nowadays, we’re starting to see a lot of crossovers from actors/actresses who have played characters in both the DC and Marvel Universe, and even in some cases like Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans, multiple characters from the same universe. The examples…
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…
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