When I was growing up and starting my seemingly life long love of video games, I started with the NES, which didn’t have the best track record when it came to licensed games, at least starting out. When I became aware of the X-Men through comics, the animated series, Marvel trading cards and the Toy…
So did anybody other than me not now what “Blue Monday” was? I always thought it was a song by Orgy and yes, I do know it was a cover of a New Order song, but my introduction to it was in the Korn/Limp Bizkit era of musical domination (#3dollarbillyall). In any rate, a quick…
TT Games’ Arthur Parsons just dropped a huge bombshell announcement for PlayStation owners less than two weeks from the launch of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers. Via the PlayStation Blog, Parsons revealed that at launch nine characters from the highly anticipated Captain America: Civil War will be available at launch in a character pack. The characters are as follows: Captain America; Iron…
Prior to 2013, developer TT Games had already worked on a huge number of licenses as part of their incredibly fun and addictive Lego series of games: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Caped Crusader, Batman. Being owned by publisher WB Games, who in turn are owned by parent company Time Warner who…
Toys and video games have gone hand in hand for years with little plastic representations of video game characters being sold on the shelves of specialty stores and toy departments, but it was really only until recently with the popularity of games like Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Playmotion and now Lego Dimensions that the two have truly become one. The…
Growing up I was a huge video game magazine reader and I loved reading issues of Nintendo Power and Electronic Gaming Monthly at the start of the year where they would have a big preview of all the great games expected to arrive in the next twelve months any beyond. With a lot of great comic book games either…
It’s Christmas time and that means that 2015 is coming to a rapid close. With New Years just around the corner, it’s time to take a look back at the year that was 2015, and while admittedly there’s not much to talk about in the space of comic book video games, there’s still some awards…
Back when it was released on Facebook back in 2012, Marvel: Avengers Alliance was the first game that would transition Marvel’s interactive division from a company who released traditional games on consoles and handhelds to one who more or less solely focused on mobile and free-to-play offerings. Now close to four years later, the game that started…
The Clone High meets Marvel mobile title Avengers Academy, scheduled to arrive in early 2016 from TinyCo, just received a new trailer that still doesn’t show exactly how the game looks like when played, but provides a glimpse of some of the reimagined Marvel cast including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Loki, Hulk and Black Widow. While not shown…
When it arrives in January of 2016, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers will be the first console Marvel game to feature content inspired by Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Phase Two is sssoooo 2015, what about 2016, in particular, the hotly anticipated Captain America: Civil War? While Lego Marvel’s The Avengers will release months to Civil War, which doesn’t…
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