DISNEY INFINITY 2.0 TOY BOX TRAILER

Not to be outdone by DC, we also get a new trailer for Disney Infinity 2.0 today as well. While the video is mainly showing off the new Toy Box mode, Disney specific characters and the Disney themed edition coming November 4th, there’s still plenty of Marvel goodness in there too. If you pause around…

TOP 10: COMIC BOOK GAMES WITH SEQUELS

A lot of comic book characters have multiple titles featuring them (Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men etc) but  very few have sequel games that are connected, even fewer still have sequels that are successful. Here’s a list of 10 series that made an impact in the world of comic book games at large. 10 RADICAL’S HULK SERIES…

TOP 10: FRANCHISES THAT COULD HANDLE “ARKHAM” STATUS

There are hundreds of games on the market that are based on comic book properties (trust me, I own a lot of them) but there’s only one “Arkham” franchise; A series of games that have started their own sub-genre within the juggernaut Batman franchise that has spawned the most sequels of any comic book game…

5 CONTRIBUTIONS THE SEGA GENESIS MADE TO COMIC BOOK GAMES

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of the Sega Genesis, also known as the Mega Drive in other parts of the world, in North America. To celebrate the life of the little black box that gave the “Big N” a run for their money in the 90’s, I’m going to look at ways…

WHY DIDN’T IT GET A SEQUEL: X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE

They’re at this point literally dozens, if not hundreds of characters in the X-Men universe, but none as iconic as Wolverine. He’s been the face of the X-Men film franchise since the original came out in 2000 and has been the only mutant to appear in every film, as well as to have their own…

DC OR MARVEL: WHICH COMPANY IS DOING VIDEO GAMES RIGHT?

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 ONLY GOOD THING CARNAGE GAVE US WAS MAXIMUM CARNAGE

Carnage sucks. The end. No wait, come back, I’m not done, but at the same time I could probably sum up my opinion on the Spider-Man villain in those two short sentences. I don’t really get the excitement when it’s announced that an upcoming Venom movie from Sony may be titled Venom Carnage, what is…

THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN COMIC BOOK GAMES PART 4

It’s time to look at another three Marvel games that were simply never meant to be. DAREDEVIL (GC/PS2/XBOX) Daredevil was being positioned as another big multimedia franchise from Marvel during the turn of the century. The comic series was a best-selling series under the Marvel Knights brand thanks in no small parts to writers like…