The once profitable and growing toys-to-life genre looks like it may be joining the plastic instrument trend of the early 2000’s as the next thing to be gathering dust in your closet. After last year’s abrupt termination of Disney Infinity, followed by the announcement this year that Skylanders, Activision’s annual franchise in the genre since 2011 franchise would be…
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOR THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Outside of maybe Star Wars, Batman has been represented possibly the most in the Lego franchise of games, having been featured in his own trilogy of games, as a playable character in the Lego Movie Videogame and being included as a one of the three characters in the starter pack of Lego…
When the most recent wave of Lego Dimensions sets that came out yesterday was announced, two timed exclusives were among the list: A Knight Rider Fun Pack that you could only buy at GameStop/EB Games for a limited time as well as a The Lego Batman Movie Fun Pack featuring a new Batman titled Excalibur Batman that was to be only…
Launching alongside the North America release of The Lego Batman Movie are two new Lego Dimensions sets inspired by the feature film. The first is a Story Pack that comes with a new Bat-Computer base build, Batgirl and Robin figures as well as a Batwing vehicle. This pack also unlocks new stages that retells the events of the movie,…
In advance of this weekend’s North American release of The Lego Batman Movie, Smosh Games have produced yet another Honest Game Trailer lampooning the Dark Knight. This time the series is turning away from the Arkham games and focusing on the TT Games developed Lego Batman trilogy. Take a look: VIA SMOSH GAME YOUTUBE
While most people would like to forget that 2016 ever happened, it was a pretty awesome year for comic book video games: The opening month of the year got the excellent Lego Marvel’s The Avengers; We got some great content in the toys-to-life genre in both Lego Dimensions and the sadly now defunct Disney Infinity; Telltale wowed with its Michonne…
For the second year of Lego Dimensions offering, two new DC properties will arrive in the toys-to-life game starting in 2017. The first, The Lego Batman Movie, will have a story pack arrive along side a timed exclusive to Target fun pack around the film’s launch in February, while the second remains elusive still. It was revealed in the trailer…
The moment of truth is finally here. After spending all of 2016 highlighting what I feel to be the best Marvel console games of all time, it’s finally time to rank them in order from least greatest to absolute greatest. Normally when I do a ranking list, with a few exceptions, I tend to just…
This weekend saw the return of the wizarding world of Harry Potter to cinemas in the form of the prequel spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Accompanying the release of the film is a new story pack for the toys-to-life game Lego Dimensions that contains quite the hidden Easter egg: The S.T.A.R Labs set as seen on CW’s The Flash. This…
Last week marked the kick-off of the second year of Lego Dimensions toys, a year that when announced in June, was revealed to be including characters from the Cartoon Network series, Teen Titans GO!: A lot of the properties announced in that trailer have gotten narrowed down release dates in the past few months: we know that Sonic the…
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