Going into the busy holiday shopping season, Arcade1up’s major comic book video game offering this fall was once limited to their X-Men cabinet which includes the classic arcade game, Captain America and the Avengers, and Avengers in Galactic Storm. Now the maker of home cabinets have a few more units to add to their catalog…
Arcade 1UP, a division of Tastemakers LLC that produces affordable, arcade cabinets with pre-loaded games sized for the home, has seemingly done the impossible with two of their upcoming releases. Announced just today at E3, a cabinet housing Capcom’s The Punisher, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes joins another that will have Konami’s…
Both Marvel and DC have dipped their toes into the VR space with the likes of Batrman: Arkham VR, Marvel Powers United VR and the upcoming Marvel’s Iron Man VR. In his latest video Diego Rivera discusses the characters he would like to see get brought into the medium. Watch the video below, and leave a comment on what characters…
January 20th, 2012. It was on that date that the first ever article was published on Comics Gamers Assemble: a preview of the public demo for 2K’s The Darkness 2, a follow-up from the 2007 game developed by Starbreeze Studios. Since that time, over 900 articles have been published on this platform, ranging from reviews of games both old…
I’ve stated in the past that one of the sure ways to make a great comic book game is to marry a particular license to a pre-existing game franchise that just simply fits: Batman Begins for example is simply Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell with a Batman skin; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Acclaim’s Shadow Man have a lot in common with Nintendo’s Metroid Franchise and THQ’s The Punisher, the…
Today’s the day that Daredevil returns to Netflix for its second season and I like many, couldn’t be more excited. Not only do we get to binge watch another thirteen episodes starring the Man Without Fear, but we also get to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe debut for two characters: Elektra and The Punisher. Last…
In 2015 I looked at Acclaim’s roster of in-house produced comic book video games, and in 2016 I’m taking the year-long feature concept further and will determine what is the greatest Marvel console video game of all time. There are some things I’d like to clarify before the feature starts in the new year, the…
Fifteen years ago today, Sony launched the PlayStation 2 in North America, and in typing that sentence just now, I feel very, very old. It’s funny in hindsight because I remember being in my second year of highschool when the PlayStation 2 came out, and I was nothing but underwhelmed by its line-up and prospects.…
Announced back in July during San Deigo Comic-Con, Marvel Contest of Champions is an upcoming mobile brawler from Kabam Entertainment that previously had a vague release date of “Fall 2014.” Now as New York Comic-Con gets underway, the veil has been lifted up and we now know that we’ll be able to download the game…
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of the Sega Genesis, also known as the Mega Drive in other parts of the world, in North America. To celebrate the life of the little black box that gave the “Big N” a run for their money in the 90’s, I’m going to look at ways…
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