In 1997, Sony worked with Image Comics to publish a first-party Spawn video game on the original PlayStation: Spawn: The Eternal. The game was negatively received by both critics as well as fans and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who wishes it to be resurrected. Now, over twenty years later, Sony is once again…
For twenty-two years, Insomniac Games have been delighting video game players with their creative, often colorful worlds, over-the-top weapons and AAA games that often feel like they have the sensibility of something made by an indie studio. When it was announced that Insomniac was tackling the Spider-Man license for their upcoming, highly anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man, it…
Being a teenager in the late 90’s, I loved to play video games of all types, even those that many of my peers deemed were just “for kids”. Early games on the Nintendo 64 like Super Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing were titles I always kept coming back to, and when Nintendo was set to launch a game…
2017 was a MASSIVE year for comic book video games from sheer volume alone with long gestating titles like Battle Chasers: Nightwar finally coming out, the release of two major AAA fighting games and surprises like a remaster of Rogue Trooper and a collection of NES Disney games that included the likes of DuckTales and it’s pricey sequel, DuckTales 2. So far the…
After weeks of will they/won’t they speculation and hope from fans who want the likes of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to share the screen with the Avengers in a Marvel movie, Disney has officially purchased 21st Century Fox’s film assets to the tune of over $50 billion, ultimately meaning that such things can…
Sony’s currently ongoing PlayStation Experience event didn’t come with any new trailer, gameplay footage, or a release date for next year’s highly anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man from Insomniac, but we did learn more about the writing team behind the title. Assisting Insomniac’s lead writer Jon Paquette are the writing team of Dan Slott and Christos Gage. Slott has been…
As someone who was born in the 80’s, my video game education, like many I’m sure, started with the NES. Everyone has their favorite series from that era: whether it’s Nintendo first-party heavy hitters like Mario and Zelda, but for me, it was Mega Man. There wasn’t much I didn’t like about Capcom’s beloved franchise:…
I want to preface this piece very early on by saying I love the character of Miles Morales: In either collected edition or trade, I have every issue starring the character as written by Brian Micheal Bendis; I have multiple Miles Morales Spider-Man action figures and even a hoodie and t-shirt modeled after Miles’ now…
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During their Paris Games Week press conference yesterday, Sony showed off a brand new trailer for 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man that gave us the most information to unpack than any other trailer for the game thus far: from the first looks at Peter Parker, Aunt May, a tease of Norman Osborn and a new villain in the Shocker.…
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