For nearly a decade-and-a-half, publisher Activision’s name was synonymous with the Marvel Comics license. Starting with 2000’s Spider-Man from developer Neversoft and X-Men: Mutant Academy, the house of Call of Duty would pump out nearly a Spider-Man game a year on top of titles like the X-Men Legends franchise and Marvel Ultimate Alliance among others.…
Going into the busy holiday shopping season, Arcade1up’s major comic book video game offering this fall was once limited to their X-Men cabinet which includes the classic arcade game, Captain America and the Avengers, and Avengers in Galactic Storm. Now the maker of home cabinets have a few more units to add to their catalog…
In a case of better late than never, Nightdive Studios’ lovingly crafted remasters of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil found their way to the PlayStation family of consoles this year. Previously, the duo had come to PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch with PlayStation being the last holdout. Like it was…
Hot off of the War for Wakanda expansion, Crystal Dynamics is not letting the momentum it has built up for Marvel’s Avengers in the past few months to slow down. Today, they revealed their Winter roadmap for their ongoing title, highlighting what players can expect before the end of the year. The headline grabbing news,…
Last week during Gamescom, the world got its first glimpse at Marvel’s Midnight Suns from developer Firaxis Games via a cinematic trailer. The tail end of the reveal teased that the first gameplay footage for the title would be revealed on September 1st, and today we got just that. The story of Marvel’s Midnight Suns…
Before E3 this summer, it was leaked that two Marvel games were set to be announced: Guardians of the Galaxy, which made its debut at the event, and a yet to be named tactics RPG from XCOM developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games which was absent. As part of this year’s Gamescom, the Opening Night…
Perhaps one of this year’s most pleasant surprises in the video game space was the reveal of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. A collaboration between Dotemu and Tribute Games, including people responsible for the likes of Streets of Rage 4 and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, Shredder’s Revenge is an unabashed love…
If the past few years of video games has taught us one thing, it’s that launch is never truly the end of the story. Titles like No Man’s Sky and even Marvel’s Avengers recently have evolved beyond what they initially offered through downloadable content and patches. So, with that in mind, I thought: why couldn’t…
Before Marvel’s Avengers launched in September of last year, it was leaked that Spider-Man was eventually going to be added to the game as a bonus for PlayStation users. Mere days after this information started to circulate, Sony made it official via a post on their official PlayStation blog, concluding with the statement that the…
In the fall of 2013, the TT Games developed LEGO Marvel Super Heroes was released, and without an ounce of hyperbole, it’s still today one of, if not the, best Marvel Comics video games ever released. Though the LEGO games that have arrived since then, both of the DC and Marvel variety, have made many…
