PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR MONTH PART 3: MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 (XBOX 360)

When Activision started their Marvel action-RPG series with the original X-Men Legends, development responsibilities primarily fell on Raven Software with the occasional porting duties being outsourced to other studios. With development on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Singularity and a reboot of the Wolfenstein franchise all happening simultaneously, Raven had very little resources to commit to the second and final Marvel Ultimate Alliance game released in…

COULD A SONY PRODUCED SPIDER-MAN GAME ACTUALLY BE A REALITY? (UPDATE)

Approaching two years ago, before Sony decided to share the Spider-Man film rights with Marvel Studios, I wrote an editorial arguing that the best stewards for the Spider-Man video game franchise would be Sony themselves. Now it seems that amazing fantasy I had (see what I did there?) could, fingers crossed, be a reality. That…

PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR MONTH PART 2: MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 (PSP)

The dungeon-crawler action-RPG genre was a good fit for the PSP. The overhead perspective allowed developers to create a fun action game on the go without having to be strapped with the usual camera problems inherent with more traditional 3-D action/adventure games. Some of the games that found great success on the handheld were the…

PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR MONTH PART 1: MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 (NINTENDO DS)

When the original Marvel Ultimate Alliance came out in 2006, a DS SKU was noticeably absent. There was a PSP game that was more or less a direct conversion of the PS2/Wii game with the usual compromises, but if you wanted to play MUA on a Nintendo handheld, you had to stick with the watered down beat-em-up that was…

COULD THERE BE NEW MARVEL CONTENT COMING TO DISNEY INFINITY 3.0 ALREADY?!

Last month saw the release of the awesome Marvel Battlegrounds playset for Disney Infinity 3.0 as well as a slew of new figures and a set of power discs. The game is not even a month old and the folks at Marvel games are already teasing new content for the multiplayer brawler. On Tuesday Bill Rosemann, creative director for Marvel…

PS3/4 EXCLUSIVE ANT-MAN LEVEL NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR LEGO MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS

When it was released in January, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers covered nearly every corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a big, or tiny, exception: Ant-Man. The first post Avengers: Age of Ultron film was notably absent from the game, that is, until today. For PlayStation owners, you can now download the Ant-Man level pack for Lego Marvel’s The Avengers…

THE BEST MARVEL CONSOLE GAME EVER PART 4: MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE GOLD EDITION (XBOX 360)

At the conclusion of 2005’s X-Men Legends 2, a stinger set up a third chapter in the excellent action-RPG series that we would unfortunately never see. Unlike other franchises that have languished in limbo with no conclusion however, like MegaMan Legends, it wasn’t because the series was dead or the creators had been taken off the series. X-Men…

SCI-FI ON THE ROCK SPECIAL: MARVEL NEMESIS: RISE OF THE IMPERFECTS (GAMECUBE)

This Friday and ongoing all weekend is the 10th annual Sci-Fi on the Rock convention in the city of St. John’s found in my home province of Newfoundland, Canada. It also happens to be the first year where yours truly will be doing an hour-long panel about comic book games. One of the special guests…

THE PUNISHER IN VIDEO GAMES: PLAY OR PASS

Today’s the day that Daredevil returns to Netflix for its second season and I like many, couldn’t be more excited. Not only do we get to binge watch another thirteen episodes starring the Man Without Fear, but we also get to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe debut for two characters: Elektra and The Punisher. Last…

REVIEW: DISNEY INFINITY 3.0 MARVEL BATTLEGROUNDS PLAY SET (PS4)

The first six months post launch of Disney Infinity 3.0 have been hard for Marvel fans. After three play sets and over twenty figures based on the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe were released as part of the 2.0 edition of the toys-to-life game, the 3.0 edition until now has only saw the release…

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