With Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron less than two weeks away from hitting theatres in North America, the team and the titular villain can be seen just about anywhere: TV ads, movie trailers, toys, Doritos, Dr. Pepper, clothes, and starting on April 23rd, video games. This Thursday and leading up to the North American release of Age of…
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…
MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR WINNER: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: THE UNIVERSAL WEAPON Before this year, I doubt many people knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were, now over $750 millions dollars at the box office later, we’re all singing the songs from Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and dancing along with Baby Groot. The…
After starring in the second highest grossing movie of 2014 (thus far,) the Guardians of the Galaxy can be seen just about anywhere nowadays, especially in video games. They starred in their first ever game, The Universal Weapon, this summer, they’re part of Disney Infinity 2.0, Marvel Heroes, the list goes on and on. Soon…
Spider-Man: The Animated Series did a lot to bring in new fans of the character, especially those who were introduced to the character via an animated series, namely the 1960’s Spider-Man cartoon, in the first place. At a time when comic fans were up in arms over the fact that Peter Parker may or not…
I had to pick the title for this piece just right, as I didn’t want to trick people into thinking I was going to step onto the landmine argument of who’s better, DC or Marvel. Short answer: both are great, don’t worry about the publisher of your comics, just worry about the story, art, and characters,…
The Guardians of the Galaxy were awarded their very own game last week in the excellent The Universal Weapon, but Marvel has much more in storE for the rag tag group of intergalactic heroes beyond one game. We already knew from earlier this week that the team will be getting their own playset in Disney…
The Guardians of the Galaxy have existed in some incarnation or another since the 1960’s, but in the world of video games, the characters are in their relative infancy. The first time any character from the Guardians would be playable in any video game would be in the 2011 re-issue of Marvel Vs. Capom 3:…
Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008, the film to video game rights for all properties were licensed to publisher Sega to farm out development to whom ever they saw fit. While the results ranged from really good (Captain America: Super Soldier PS3/Xbox 360, Thor: God of Thunder Nintendo DS) to okay (The…
Gazillion entertainment put up a developer diary last week featuring the games writer, Brian Michael Bendis (All New X-Men, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man among others) where he explains how Marvel Heroes will have an ongoing story, and why they chose Doctor Doom as the games central villain:
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