September 26th, 1996. In limited release, Nintendo launched their first ever three-dimensional console that defined how games would be played in this bold new perspective, thanks to games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Rare’s Goldeneye 007, the latter of which showed developers how first-person shooters, a genre that exploded in the next console…
Today, franchises like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Battlefield take a lot of heat for having annual releases that water down the brand they represent, but two console generations ago, the term “annual franchise” didn’t carry such a negative connotation. Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank series released one year after the other and got better as they went along, which was the…
During Sony’s E3 press conference when it was unveiled via a trailer that Insomniac Games was making a Spider-Man game exclusive to the PlayStation 4, my excitement level burst through the roof, and from what I’ve read and seen online in articles and discussions, I’m not the only one. During a recent episode of Huber Syndrome on…
Sometimes, especially during the excitement of E3, it’s easy to get caught up in how gorgeous trailers can look for video games and forget that those two-three minute videos may not be indicative of what a final product will look like. Let’s not forget that not too long ago commercials aired on TV showing all…
“Is [Spider-Man] a signal of things to come? Oh, yes. Absolutely. And we can’t wait to tell the world about it.” – Jay Ong, Marvel’s vice-president of games talking with Polygon When I started a website dedicated to comic book inspired video games, I strongly felt that I was getting in on the ground floor…
The only reason I’m awake right now is because of pure hype and excitement. Having worked very early yesterday morning, it was a struggle to stay up for the Sony press conference, and boy, am I glad that I did. I could talk in length about the new incredible looking God of War, the just announced, WITH…
Next week for gamers is the calm before the storm, the storm being E3 2016 when all the major players in the game industry come out with their big guns to show up what games, hardware and potential console upgrades we’ll be getting in our hands in both the near and distant future. Given that…
It’s amazing for a game that’s so short and severely mechanically outdated that I can nearly almost find something to write about it. That speaks volumes about how good Neversoft’s Spider-Man, or Spider-Man (2000) as I often refer to it, truly is. In continuing my look at the best Marvel console game ever, I didn’t think I would have…
When the news dropped Friday that Spider-Man would not only be coming to Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, and in his Captain America: Civil War outfit no less, I was, to put it mildly, pretty excited. Today I’m even more excited because not only is the pack coming out today for free, but it’s also brings a lot of fan-favorite…
One character who was noticeably absent from the one hundred and fifty plus character roster of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers was any incarnation of Spider-Man. Sure, the game’s story takes place in the MCU of which Spider-Man only recently joined, but there’s plenty of characters in the open-worlds of the game like Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster Thor…
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