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…
Lego Marvel’s The Avengers on both the PS Vita and 3DS is perhaps the closest the folks at TT Games have come to bringing the console experience to handhelds. Whereas previous Lego games on both devices were paired down, levels only affairs, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers had explorable open areas where quests and other collectibles waited. Now the handheld…
Before taking the Marvel license and turning it into one of the most popular fighting game franchises of all time by combining it with their own stable of characters, Capcom’s licensed output mostly came from their excellent Disney games in the 8-16 bit era like Ducktales, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Goof Troop among countless other classics. After takes…
There were a lot of X-Men video games released before the first X-Men Legends, some of them pretty great, but none really got the property right like the Legends series. Whereas console limitations had it such that the most X-Men you could have on-screen were two at a time (remember this is years before Konami’s arcade game made it…
When the original Marvel Ultimate Alliance came out in 2006, a DS SKU was noticeably absent. There was a PSP game that was more or less a direct conversion of the PS2/Wii game with the usual compromises, but if you wanted to play MUA on a Nintendo handheld, you had to stick with the watered down beat-em-up that was…
This Friday and ongoing all weekend is the 10th annual Sci-Fi on the Rock convention in the city of St. John’s found in my home province of Newfoundland, Canada. It also happens to be the first year where yours truly will be doing an hour-long panel about comic book games. One of the special guests…
Before the X-Men squared off against one another, or the Marvel Universe went to war with Capcom, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe fought one-on-one in what would become a trend for super hero in video games: put them in a fighting game. Given the huge popularity both at home and in the…
Spider-Man was not a stranger to video games in the 90’s, having at least one video game on every console or handheld available at the time and even teaming up with another Marvel property, the X-Men. It wasn’t until 1994 with the release of Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage though that a game starring the character was truly great. Like the…
The portable Lego games have gone from titles that I would pick up with a sense of trepidation, to something that I now look forward to because they just keep getting better. After hitting a low point with 2013’s Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril, which got as far away from the Lego formula as you…
Whether people like it or not, toys have invaded the video game space and they’re not going anywhere anytime soon. Skylanders, amiibo, Disney Infinity and now Lego Dimensions are all huge business for those involved, selling DLC in the form of plastic figures that bring new characters, vehicles and levels to video games. As someone who loves collecting…
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