Once Capcom started making fighting games that pitted their stable of characters against the likes of the X-Men, the Marvel Universe and SNK, cross-overs that seemed impossible suddenly seemed very plausible. Could there eventually be a Marvel Vs. DC? How about Mortal Kombat Vs. Street Fighter? In early 2008, the now defunct Midway surprised many…
Its been a while since Todd McFarlane’s 90’s sensation Spawn has appeared in a video game. The last time anyone was able to play as the resurrected Hellspawn was in 2003 when he appeared in both the Xbox SKU of Soul Calibur II and Spawn: Armageddon, each from publisher Namco, now Namco-Bandai. With a new take on the character…
Fighting games as a genre go hand in hand with super hero comic books. As much as any fans of super hero books say they read for things like story, characters, plot, art, etc, they can’t lie and say they don’t also love a good old-fashioned throw down complete with epic splash pages, larger than…
Nintendo’s got a lot of problems: Their new hardware, the Wii U, is bleeding money due largely in part to launching extremely close to more powerful hardware from Sony and Microsoft, a lack of third-party support (a Nintendo staple) and a lack of steady, must have releases. I can’t really think of ways in which…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/18/2013 The year is 1995, and if you were anything like me, you loved nothing more than getting your hands on that newest SNES game, especially in the fall of the year when all of the big games dropped that were competing for that coveted place on your Christmas list.…
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