WHAT EXACTLY CONSTITUTES A “COMIC BOOK GAME”

Ever since I started producing content for this site back in 2012, it’s always been difficult for me to determine what to cover and what does it mean to be a comic book game. An easy example of course would be super hero games from “The Big 2″”: Marvel and DC, but what about things…

SUPER HERO FIGHTING GAMES: THE GOOD AND THE BAD QUALITIES

Fighting games as a genre go hand in hand with super hero comic books. As much as any fans of super hero books say they read for things like story, characters, plot, art, etc, they can’t lie and say they don’t also love a good old-fashioned throw down complete with epic splash pages, larger than…

REVIEW: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2014) (NINTENDO 3DS)

2014 saw a lot of big-budget Hollywood movies make it to theaters, but hardly any tie-in games released next to them that arrived on a traditional console or handheld, more than likely due to diminishing returns on rushed-to-market games when easier, digestible games can be made for mobile devices. Never one to miss out on…

COMIC GAMERS ASSEMBLE GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS (PART 2)

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…

COMIC GAMERS ASSEMBLE GAME OF THE YEAR AWARDS (PART 1)

The presents have been opened with care, or tore open with little to no regard in my case, and with New Year’s just around the corner, it means that 2014 is coming to a rapid close. This has been a big year for Comic Gamers Assemble and to celebrate I’m putting off the first ever…

10 FAVORITE TOY LINES, INSPIRED BY DISNEY INFINITY 2.0

With the release of Disney Infinity, I’ve been reading a lot of great stories on various web sites about adults recovering the joy they had playing with action figures as a kid, a sentiment I’m definitely feeling even after only putting a few hours into the 2.0 edition yesterday evening. With the anticipation I felt…