At the dawn of what’s now known the whole world over as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, video game publisher Sega and a cadre of developers navigated tight deadlines and short development cycles to build games starring superheroes like Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America. These were all based on the films released from 2008-2011…
Lego Marvel Super Heroes is, in my books, the best game that TT Games has ever produced and also one of the greatest Marvel video games of all time. Given that TT Games, the developer of the Lego series of games, parent company is WB Games who owns DC Comics, it was a miracle that…
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…
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…
It’s finally happened, Spider-Man is home! The news I woke up to this morning via my Facebook feed was that Sony/Disney/Marvel Studios have finally come to an agreement that will allow Spider-Man to become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This news has caused such a ripple that Marvel has moved its five-year film slate…
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,…
I loved last summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy, like a lot of people it seems, catching it many times in theatres and getting a special “Awesome Mix” steel-tin collectors edition of the Blu-Ray for Christmas this year. Easily my favourite part of the home version of the film was the buffer between the special features…
Marvel has been throwing around a lot of popular event names as a lead up to the return to their Secret Wars story in 2015; Everything from Old Man Logan, Marvel Zombies, House of M, and of course Civil War. Yesterday they posted another teaser with no ties to a previous event, simply titled “The…
Yesterday saw two more figures added to the second iteration of Disney Infinity: Yondu of Guardians of the Galaxy fame and The Falcon, as seen in this year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and more importantly, the future Captain America. Going on information yesterday, I operated under the assumption that Falcon’s look in Disney Infinity…
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