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…
NOTE: THIS IS A SPOILER FREE REVIEW I had really lost interest in The Walking Dead before Telltale’s first season came out and was pretty late getting around to it. I gave it a second chance because of all the game of the year buzz it was getting in 2012 and devoured the first season in a…
The dungeon-crawler action-RPG genre was a good fit for the PSP. The overhead perspective allowed developers to create a fun action game on the go without having to be strapped with the usual camera problems inherent with more traditional 3-D action/adventure games. Some of the games that found great success on the handheld were the…
If you’ve stumbled across my website, read my work, liked an article or even commented, chances are you really like comic book themed video games. If you’ve become a fan, first of all, thank you from the bottom of my heart, and secondly I’d like to tell you about a great book that looks at…
NOTE: THIS IS A SPOILER FREE REVIEW THAT WILL NOT ADDRESS ANY PLOT POINTS. Other than the slick James Bond like opening for the debut episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne, I was left pretty unimpressed overall. Not to say it was bad or anything, it just felt like it was treading a lot of familiar ground…
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…
Back in 2008, I remember going to a grocery store next to where I worked at the time to pick up the new issue of EGM and saw this cover: I had two thoughts upon seeing the cover: The first was why a magazine like EGM would put a Watchmen video game on the cover…
The first six months post launch of Disney Infinity 3.0 have been hard for Marvel fans. After three play sets and over twenty figures based on the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe were released as part of the 2.0 edition of the toys-to-life game, the 3.0 edition until now has only saw the release…
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…
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW Realistically speaking, every episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne is review proof: The Walking Dead is one of the hottest properties today; Telltale’s series based on said property is critically acclaimed and beloved and the main character in the mini-series is of the most popular of the cast. No matter what I say, if you’re…
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