2008 was an interesting year for video game publishing giant Electronic Arts, other wise abbreviated to EA. The year started off with them releasing a big name sequel in the month of January that was far different from the games that had normally come from that franchise in Burnout Paradise. As the year went on, EA’s catalog…
Zen Studios has been releasing digital pinball tables on their Zen Pinball 2 platform for several years, some of which have been based on classic Marvel characters and properties. Now for the first time some of the tables will be collected on disc for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Titled Marvel Pinball: Epic Collection Volume 1, the collected edition…
I’ve stated in the past that one of the sure ways to make a great comic book game is to marry a particular license to a pre-existing game franchise that just simply fits: Batman Begins for example is simply Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell with a Batman skin; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Acclaim’s Shadow Man have a lot in common with Nintendo’s Metroid Franchise and THQ’s The Punisher, the…
When you look at a character like the Hulk, you can see both a character that is pretty easy to adapt into a fun video game, yet at the same time extremely difficult. In some form or another, people have been making Hulk-esque experiences since the days of early arcade titles like Midway’s Rampage: Game’s granting players…
Thanks to Matthew Riggs for bringing this to my attention. This being E3 week and all, we’re all excited to get lost in all the hype of the new games, hardware and VR offerings coming down the pipeline. It appears that Activision however are perhaps looking to dig into their past catalog if some recently…
T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! TEENAGE. MUTANT. NINJA. TURTLES. This is what starts to pump out of your TV once you boot up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and if you’re a child of the 80’s/90’s like I am, you get a warm feeling of nostalgia and immediately think you’re in for something…
Up until 2007, all of the video games in the long running Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise we’re handled by Konami, but after a failed return to form with some mediocre games based on the 2003 animated series reboot, the Japanese publisher let the rights expire to be picked up by Ubisoft. Under the direction on Konami,…
Last week one of the worst keep secrets as of late was confirmed when it was finally made official that Batman: Return to Arkham was coming to PS4 and Xbox one in July. Now, at least according to a listing from Amazon Germany, that may not be the only Arkham game coming to stores in that month. Outed on…
Next Friday the sequel to 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, arrives and will interpret characters like Krang, Baxter Stockman, Bebop and Rocksteady for the first time in a movie as well as introduce a new Casey Jones played by Arrow’s Stephen Amell. Like this year’s Batman V. Superman, Prelude to Civil…
Well, here’s a nice birthday present to me! One of the worst kept secrets as of late has finally been confirmed by publisher WB Games: Both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City are being remastered on one disc in a package called Batman: Return to Arkham for both PS4 and Xbox One. Though it’s missing the rumored June 10th release…
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