It’s pretty astonishing how far developers have come with the mobile platform in such a short period of time. Where once game designers were trying to emulate traditional games on a touch screen with virtual buttons and sticks/directional pads, now the best of the best in the mobile space are games that are intelligently designed…
Leading up to 2007, Activision could really do no wrong when it came to the Spider-Man license. After a strong start in 2000’s Spider-Man, they built upon that game’s foundation in a PSOne sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro and the first Spider-Man movie game on the sixth generation of consoles before once again revolutionizing how we all played Spider-Man games with Spider-Man…
Following the success of 2000’s Spider-Man from developer Neversoft, Activision released not one, not two, but three different Spider-Man games in 2001: Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six on the aging Game Boy Color, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro on the similarly aging PSOne, and Spider-Man: Mysterio’s Menace on the freshly released Game Boy Advance that served as the wall-crawler’s debut on the handheld.…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Spider-Man: The Animated Series, a show near and dear to my, and I’m assuming a lot of people’s, heart. To mark that event, a lot of the talent from the show reunited over this past weekend to discuss the now classic animated series that ran on the FOX…
Not to be left in the dust by the likes of DC’s Injustice: Gods Among Us, Marvel is launching a new mobile brawler game titled “Contest of Champions” coming this fall. The game is being developed by Kabam entertainment and features a story penned by Sam Humphries (Legendary Star-Lord, Avengers A.I.) From the below trailer…
Prior to the release of Spider-Man: Edge of Time on the Nintendo DS, development duties for Spider-Man games on the DS had fallen on Griptonite Games who created some pretty great “metroidvania” style games featuring the web-slinger with Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions. That particular studio was purchased by Glu Mobile in 2011 to work…
In order to proper evaluate this game, I think it’s best to imagine yourself back in the early 90’s when this game came out: You’re an impressionable young kid who loves video games, comic books, cartoons, and you don’t have the luxury of the internet to provide you with up to date information on all…
This past Sunday marked the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Sega Dreamcast. That’s not a nice number that people usually break out the retrospectives over, but I have a soft spot for the system and that gives me an excuse to talk about it, and one of my favorite superhero games: Spider-Man. Now,…
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