The rumor and speculation has finally been confirmed as Marvel has officially announced Avengers: Battle for Earth coming this fall to Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U from Ubisoft and developer Ubisoft Quebec. No screens or gameplay details have been announced about the game, but the press release states that the game is inspired by…
I can’t think of any hotter property in the world right now than the Avengers. The movie is doing fantastic (both critically and financially) and rumors are buzzing about an assembly of earth’s mightiest heroes in a new videogame. I’ve talked about the Marvel Cinematic Universe games in the “Assembling the Avengers (Games)” articles, but…
Depending on where you purchase your copy of the Amazing Spider-Man in June, you’ll be getting different incentives. If you pre-order the game through Amazon.com (but not Amazon.ca, sorry fellow Canadians) you get the opportunity to play as Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee in a mission wherein the true believer himself borrows Spider-Man’s abilities to reclaim…
Images were leaked online from Blockbuster UK showing a supposed list of launch titles for Nintendo’s upcoming platform, the Wii U. In that list is a game simply titled “Marvel Super Heroes”. Could this be similar to the rumored Avengers game coming, or will this be an all new Marvel themed game exclusive to Nintendo’s…
Over the weekend I reported how it was unearthed that Ubisoft and Marvel had registered a URL for an Avengers videogame. Over at Movies.com an article entitled “Where’s the Avengers Videogame Tie-In?” has some more information that provides more insight about a potential Avengers title. The article states that Marvel’s Vice President of Game Production…
Prior to this week’s blockbuster film the Avengers, each chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been accompanied by a videogame. Sure, those games were of varying quality (Iron Man nay, Captain America yeah), but they received games none the less. Towards the end of last year, a video was shown of an Avengers game…
Beenox launched the site for their upcoming Spider-Man title, the Amazing Spider-Man, this week. The site features what you expect (character profiles, trailers, etc.) but upon its debut it also revealed two brand new characters, as well as a familiar one not shown in the past. The first is Felicia Hardy, known to most as…
Next week the game that took you for a ride, you’ll soon be able to take ON a ride (I’m not paid to write this, cut me some slack). Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 will be coming to both the iPhone and iPod touch devices on April 25th. No word yet on price point or how…
This coming Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Nintendo’s most recent handheld console in North America. Since then, there have been five comic book themed games released for the system. Here is the breakdown for fans of comic book games that are both old and new comers alike. [NOTE: I’m going to get it out…
Thor: God of Thunder gets a pretty hard rap. I’m sure it’s been listed on a couple of “Worst of” lists for the year 2011, and can be found heavily discounted in bargain bins everywhere in large quantities. So, is Thor REALLY that bad? Well….okay so Thor can be good. Is it really good? No.…
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