NINTENDO DIRECT: MARVEL COSMIC INVASION FROM THE MAKERS OF SHREDDER’S REVENGE COMING IN 2025

Ever since the reveal, launch, and eventual success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge from developer Tribute Games and publisher Dotemu, the question was when either Marvel or DC would apply their universe to this concept. Well, if you’re going to do it, you might as well go the best, right? Marvel Cosmic Invasion…

REVIEW: MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2

DEVELOPER: Insomniac Games PUBLISHER: Sony Computer Entertainment REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 5 from a copy purchased by the author. Insomniac Games have always had a track record of producing high-quality software even before they were officially acquired by Sony, but now as a member of PlayStation Studios, they’re easily the companies greatest asset. Within this generation…

VENOM SWITCHES TO THE FORCES OF GOOD IN NEXT WEEK’S MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS UPDATE

It seems like it was just yesterday that Deadpool was added to Marvel’s Midnight Suns and now yet another of the proposed 4 DLC characters is headed to the game next week on February 23rd. Venom, who was an adversary in the main campaign, joins the team in a continuation of the story started in…

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN: WEB OF SHADOWS (MICROSOFT XBOX 360)

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM MY BOOK THE WEB OF SPIDER-MAN GAMES: THE AMAZING AND THE (NOT SO) SPECTACULAR   WHAT THEY SAID AT THE TIME:   Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3 “Shadows is halfway there, with plenty of cool “Spider-Man” moments. But it never really hits any stride, instead setting into repetition…

VENOM’S VIDEO GAME FIRSTS

Venom had the (dis)honor of having his big screen debut in the well-meaning, but very flawed Spider-Man 3 in 2007. Now, eleven years later, the Spider-Man villain turned anti-hero is set to headline his own movie starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and the toothy title character, arriving this Friday, October 5th. While this weekend will only mark Venom’s…