The news broke yesterday that another high profile comic book game that didn’t even get the opportunity to show even a screenshot to the public has gotten the axe. The victim this time is EA’s Black Panther title that was announced almost 2 years ago in the summer of 2023. The studio, Cliffhanger Games, that…
Released over 8 years ago in March of 2017, the Nintendo Switch was the console/handheld hybrid that let players take their games wherever they wanted and finally delivered on the promise made by the Sega Nomad in the 90s. The Wii U, Nintendo’s last home console before the Switch, was a precursor to this concept…
Last year, the once Apple Arcade exclusive roguelike Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate made its way to both Nintendo Switch and PC. Back in August of 2024, developer Super Evil Megacorp unveiled a roadmap to extend the life of their game that included DLC and the first piece dropped this week. Titled “Casey Jones…
2024, at least in terms of games based on beloved comic book properties, felt like a stop gap year. Marvel, for example, had no big original game like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 or Marvel’s Midnight Suns and titles starring the likes of Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Iron Man, Blade and others were missing in action. This…
DEVELOPER: Capcom PUBLISHER: Capcom REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a digital copy purchased by the author. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This review will focus on the offline offerings of the game exclusively. Marvel in the mid-90s was far from the pop culture juggernaut it is now. Where nowadays it’s a branch of a multi-billion dollar corporation, there…
Capcom made the dreams of countless many come true when, during a Nintendo Direct in June, they unveiled the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection – Arcade Classics. Collecting every Capcom developed Marvel game from the 90s/early 00s – with the exception of the SNES exclusive X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and Marvel Super Heroes in War of…
Sometimes dreams really do come true. Mere hours ago, Nintendo dropped their big June Direct, and while it was firmly focused on the current Nintendo Switch and not its successor, it was still full of huge announcements. The biggest, of course, being that Capcom’s Marvel games are finally coming to modern devices. Marvel vs. Capcom…
WARNING: This article gets into mild-spoilers for X-Men ’97 up to its ninth episode. It goes without saying that X-Men: The Animated Series and its phenomenal revival, X-Men ’97, are among the greatest superhero adaptations into any medium ever. From the moment the earworm of a theme song hit you all the way back in…
Going into the busy holiday shopping season, Arcade1up’s major comic book video game offering this fall was once limited to their X-Men cabinet which includes the classic arcade game, Captain America and the Avengers, and Avengers in Galactic Storm. Now the maker of home cabinets have a few more units to add to their catalog…
Yesterday, well known fighting game content creator, Maximilian Dood, got the hashtag #FREEMVC2 trending as high as 5th place on Twitter in the US. This was due to a video Max produced wherein he pleads his case about why Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is in desperate need of a comeback. As…
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