Being a new PS4 owner, I tuned into the Sony press-conference held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany to find out about all the new games coming out for the system. On the demo reel during one of the pre-show advertisements where it showed games currently available on the system, I caught a glimpse of The…
I had to pick the title for this piece just right, as I didn’t want to trick people into thinking I was going to step onto the landmine argument of who’s better, DC or Marvel. Short answer: both are great, don’t worry about the publisher of your comics, just worry about the story, art, and characters,…
Spider-Man 2 is the losing your virginity of Spider-Man games: You’ll never forget your first time, but it will never be your best time. Read any comments section in the review for a Spider-Man game from 2005 forwards and you’ll probably see a lot of “I loved Spider-Man 2! Why can’t they make another Spider-Man…
Carnage sucks. The end. No wait, come back, I’m not done, but at the same time I could probably sum up my opinion on the Spider-Man villain in those two short sentences. I don’t really get the excitement when it’s announced that an upcoming Venom movie from Sony may be titled Venom Carnage, what is…
One of the great things about picking up a video game based on a comic book is that you get to inhabit the role of your favorite super hero. Whether it’s swinging around the streets of New York as Spider-Man, soaring through the air as the Man of Steel or frightening foes from the shadows…
For those still playing The Amazing Spider-Man 2, or a better question should be for those who held onto your copy, the Web Threads costume pack is now available to download on both consoles and PC. The pack includes six new suits that were previously only available as pre-order bonuses: The Iron Spider, the alien…
NOTE: I played in 2D but turned the slider up periodically to check to see how the game looks and found no real difference at all. For games that try to launch across nearly every single available platform on the market, there’s a few options that a developer can take when bringing a game to…
It seems that the day of publishers trying to cash in on movies with full retail games is coming to an end as more and more films are met with free-to-play mobile to match their release date, trying to grab those caught up in the hype of opening weekend madness. Since the debut of the…
Not too long ago Gamestop stopped taking pre-orders for the Xbox One SKU of this week’s the Amazing Spider-Man 2 and it stopped appearing in promotional material for the game. Activision then issued a statement clarifying that it would not be ready for the April 29th release date for Microsoft’s new hardware, and in fact,…
North American’s won’t get to see Spider-Man’s latest theatrical adventure until this Friday, but luckily the folks at Beenox has us covered in the meantime with the Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game, available tomorrow on the PS3/4, Wii U, 3DS and Xbox 360. To celebrate on the eve of the games release, they’ve prepared a…
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