Today marks the 20th anniversary of the debut of the first Xbox console in North America. In 2001, Microsoft overcame the odds and convinced millions of players to pick up a video game console from the makers of Windows, Word and Excel. Thanks in part to franchises like Halo, Gears of War and Forza, not…
2007’s The Darkness was a commercial success for developer Starbreeze and publisher 2K Games, going on to sell over one million copies, which was a pretty good figure for a game based around an IP that wasn’t that well-known. Given that level of success, it was surprising that it would be close to four years before any…
Batman: Arkham Origins gets a bad rap and I’ve never really understood why. Yes, it didn’t really evolve the Arkham series beyond what Rocksteady did with the first two titles in the franchise, but it has a terrific story, a great new Batman and Joker voiced by Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker respectively and some downright chilling…
Like the Men in Black film franchise, the steady release of video games across consoles and handhelds ceased after the release of Men in Black 2. Without a film or animated series in which to tie into, it seemed like there was little interest in keeping the brand alive in the video game space until a third movie rolled…
Neversoft’s Spider-Man and its Vicarious Vision’s developed sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro were great first attempts at making the Spider-Man game that everyone dreamed of playing, but were held back by the limitations of the consoles that they were on. Spider-Man’s webs for example seemingly attached to the sky, there were more interior environments than exterior and you couldn’t…
The closed beta for Marvel Heroes Omega on PS4 ends today with an open beta starting this Friday for those who played the closed beta followed by a roll out for everyone else on May 23rd. Until today Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion Entertainment has been quiet as to when those who own Xbox One’s will be able to play the…
Xbox One owners can now do more than play comic book games on their console thanks to a new app for publisher IDW. All owners of the console have to do is download IDW’s app, sign up for an account, and then download comics from their publishing library. Issues can be viewed either as standard…
Spider-Man enjoyed a comeback in the video game world thanks to efforts from developers Neversoft, Vicarious Visions and Treyarch, but it was around the time that Spider-Man 3 arrived in both theatres and on consoles as well as handhelds that things started to once again trend downward for the web-slinger. Spider-Man 3 was nowhere near as good as either Spider-Man…
In the fall of the same year that the original Injustice: Gods Among Us was released in 2013, an “Ultimate Edition” was released that contained all the downloadable content that came out post launch. This edition was available on two of the platforms it was released on: Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as the at the…
This week marks a lot of important anniversaries for the manufacturers who make the consoles that we love to play video games on: Monday marked the 15th anniversary of the arrival of Microsoft in the console space with the original Xbox; November 17th sees the 10th anniversary of Sony’s third entry in the console space…
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