Next year we’ll finally get a game that ties into Marvel’s Avengers film franchise with the release of Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, but once upon a time this was meant to happen four years ago. Prior to their closure, former video game publisher THQ had commissioned its Australia studio along with Blue Tongue Studios to make a…
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.…
Growing up as a video game fan in the 90’s couldn’t have easy for a female. Sure, there was Joanna Dark to look up to and even Lara Croft was a no-nonsense, intelligent role model who was just as comfortable in a museum as in a shooting gallery, but all those qualities that made the…
In August, I’m taking you back to a time when we rented Nintendo tapes, Sega was giving Nintendo a run for its money, bracelets slapped on, pants snapped up the side and game news came from magazines. Every Friday in August I’m going to be looking at a game every Friday that could only exist…
Thanks (or no thanks, depending on how you look at it) to Sega, every one of the Marvel Phase One films launched alongside a promotional video game that landed on nearly every single device at the time, save one. While Sega had each of the solo heroes rights tied up to make games for, when…
We don’t really see much of Jim Carrey nowadays, but in the mid-90’s the actor was everywhere. His breakout year came in 1994 when he starred in three incredibly beloved comedies: Ace Venture: Pet Detective; Dumb and Dumber and The Mask, loosely based on the comic book series published by Dark Horse. Not one to miss out on making…
It’s time to look at another three Marvel games that were simply never meant to be. DAREDEVIL (GC/PS2/XBOX) Daredevil was being positioned as another big multimedia franchise from Marvel during the turn of the century. The comic series was a best-selling series under the Marvel Knights brand thanks in no small parts to writers like…
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