When it launched in the fall of 2000, Activision’s Spider-Man would eventually be playable on every platform on the market: PSOne, PS2 (via backwards compatability), N64, PC, DC and even the Game Boy Color. As the game goes, one of those games are not like the other, I’m of course referring to the Game Boy Color port…
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.…
DeNA, the developer behind the mobile Marvel-themed card game War of Heroes, is returning to that universe with the upcoming Marvel Might Heroes. Heroes is described as a real-time co-operative brawler for up to four players featuring dozens of heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe redesigned in an SD (super deformed) cartoonish manner. From DeNA: “Marvel Mighty…
It’s finally happened, Spider-Man is home! The news I woke up to this morning via my Facebook feed was that Sony/Disney/Marvel Studios have finally come to an agreement that will allow Spider-Man to become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This news has caused such a ripple that Marvel has moved its five-year film slate…
A trend that has surfaced in gaming last generation and spilling into this one is companies either remaking, or remastering games. Chances are if you picked up a PS4 last fall it may have came with a remaster of the critically acclaimed PS3 title The Last of Us, or maybe you picked up an updated version…
Presently I’m busy playing games and gathering my thoughts on the second chapter of my “Year of Acclaim” feature (something that’s proving to be EXTREMELY difficult), and on top of that I’m brainstorming up some new ideas I’d like to share with you for other parts of the year as well. Starting with: APRIL ULTIMATE…
Venom has gone through quite the transformation in the past few years. What started out as an alternate costume for Spider-Man turned into one of the wall-crawlers most deadly foes when he discovered it was an alien costume trying to take over him. The situation soured even further when Peter Parker got rid of the…
There hasn’t been any new Marvel themed figures released for Disney Infinity 2.0 since launch with the major fall push going towards Disney Characters like Tinkerbell, Stitch and Donald Duck among others. Things swing back towards Marvel’s favor tomorrow with the release of three new figures to Disney Infinity 2.0: Green Goblin, Ronan the Accuser…
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR WINNER: WB GAMES I don’t know what secrets are withheld in the WB Games office on how to make the best licensed games on the market, but if I had one wish, I would wish for my student loans to go away, but if I had TWO wishes, I wish WB…
THE BEST REASON TO GET A SECOND JOB AWARD WINNER: DISNEY INFINITY 2.0: MARVEL SUPER HEROES (MULTI) The new “toys-to-life” category that has emerged in this decade thanks to Activision’s Skylanders is not a genre to be taken lightly, and it’s even a greater force to be recokoned with now that Disney has entered the…
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