One of the more pleasant surprises during last year’s Game Awards was the reveal of Hellboy: Web of Wyrd from developer Upstream Arcade and publisher Good Shephard Entertainment. In an era where comic book based video games are chasing realism, Web of Wyrd dazzled by looking like it was animated panels from Mike Mignola’s comics.…
Something that many, including myself, love about playing video games on a console is the ease of use. There’s no adjusting sliders or fiddling with settings, you just pop in a disc or cart, or nowadays download from a digital storefront, and you’re off to the races. At least that’s how it used to be.…
Writers, directors, and actors have a lot of source material to draw upon when adapting comic book characters to the big screen. Now they have another tool in their arsenal to play with: video games. When making Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chris Evans admitted to taking inspiration from the underappreciated Captain America: Super…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge delivered on its promise and then some of modernizing the classic TMNT arcade brawler formula established by the likes of Konami in the early 90s. In early June, just shy of the 1 year anniversary of Shredder’s Revenge‘s release, developer Tribute Games dropped the news that an expansion of…
Revealed in a late June Nintendo Direct, Batman: Arkham Trilogy is a collection of Batman: Arkham Asylum, City, and Knight as well as all their applicable DLC converted by Turn Me Up Games for the Nintendo Switch. Upon its unveiling, it was given a vague “Fall 2023” release window, but now we know when we…
Back in March, the senior vice president for games and emerging media at Paramount Global, Doug Rosen, informed Polygon that work was underway on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game. Instead of being a colorful, arcade style action game like the beloved games from the 90s and last year’s terrific Shredder’s Revenge, this…
San Diego Comic Con 2023 is officially underway, and select patrons visiting the convention were able to sit in on a panel dedicated to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 at Hall H. For the many people around the world who couldn’t afford to travel to San Diego, details of the panel have just found their way onto…
Last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection from Konami and Digital Eclipse, to put it mildly, was one of the single best compilation packages ever produced. One of the best features – among several dozen of them – was the ability to listen to the totally tubular tunes that many who grew up…
Last October, EA announced they had entered into a multigame deal with Marvel Games to developed 3 action-adventure titles set within the Marvel Universe. The first of those to be announced was Iron Man from EA Motive, who built the Dead Space remake that dropped earlier this year, and now we know the second. Earlier…
It was rumored all the way back in early 2022 that the Rocksteady Studios developed Batman games could be coming to Nintendo Switch. This news started spreading when French retailer WTT posted a listing for the port with a place holder date of August 31st, 2022. Many a Nintendo Direct came and went since then,…
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