REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN 2: THE SINISTER SIX (GAME BOY COLOR)

Spider-Mania was developing early in the new millenium as the release date inched ever so closer to Sony’s first Spider-Man film and 2001 saw two different sequels starring the character released to capitalize on that: Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro from Vicarious Visions for the PSOne and Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six on Game Boy Color from Torus…

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN (GAME BOY COLOR)

When it launched in the fall of 2000, Activision’s Spider-Man would eventually be playable on every platform on the market: PSOne, PS2 (via backwards compatability), N64, PC, DC and even the Game Boy Color. As the game goes, one of those games are not like the other, I’m of course referring to the Game Boy Color port…

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN: MYSTERIO’S MENACE (GAME BOY ADVANCE)

Following the success of 2000’s Spider-Man from developer Neversoft, Activision released not one, not two, but three different Spider-Man games in 2001: Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six on the aging Game Boy Color, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro on the similarly aging PSOne, and Spider-Man: Mysterio’s Menace on the freshly released Game Boy Advance that served as the wall-crawler’s debut on the handheld.…

MARVEL MIGHTY HEROES COMING TO ANDROID AND iOS DEVICES SOON

DeNA, the developer behind the mobile Marvel-themed card game War of Heroes, is returning to that universe with the upcoming Marvel Might Heroes. Heroes is described as a real-time co-operative brawler for up to four players featuring dozens of heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe redesigned in an SD (super deformed) cartoonish manner. From DeNA: “Marvel Mighty…

JAMES, MIKE AND BOOTSY FINISH SILVER SURFER ON THE NES

One of my favorite Angry Video Game Nerd videos of all time is the Silver Surfer episode from back in 2007: As someone who could only finish Silver Surfer on the NES with the help of the infinite continues cheat code, I totally understand every point made in that video. This week on James and Mike…

WHY A LEGEND OF ZELDA LIVE-ACTION SERIES IS A TERRIBLE IDEA

As last week turned into the weekend the final big piece of entertainment news that started circulating everywhere was that Netflix was in talks with Nintendo to make a live-action The Legend of Zelda tv-series, described as Game of Thrones for the whole family. Between that time and the time that you’ll eventually see this article, I would…

MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR PROVES HOW RELEVANT LICENSED GAMES CAN BE

Last night the annual DICE awards took place in Las Vegas, Nevada and the big winner of the evening was the WB Games published, Monolith Productions developed Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. While it didn’t take home the coveted “Game of the Year” award, that went to EA/BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, it took home an otherwise outstanding collection…

RIPE FOR REMAKE: SPIDER-MAN (2000)

A trend that has surfaced in gaming last generation and spilling into this one is companies either remaking, or remastering games. Chances are if you picked up a PS4 last fall it may have came with a remaster of the critically acclaimed PS3 title The Last of Us, or maybe you picked up an updated version…