While not so much a video produced for showing off some neat gameplay features, the new Disney Infinity trailer set to the tune “Walk This Way” is an awesome commercial for the toys themselves that we’ll be able to buy in a few short weeks. Man, I’m way too excited for this game, bring it…
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…
As we knew from the debut of Disney Infinity 2.0, the starter set will come with team members from the Avengers roster. Today it’s been unveiled that there will be a Spider-Man play set that appears to be taking inspiration from the Disney animated series, Ultimate Spider-Man. Confirmed as figures in the set are the…
Beat-em-ups as a genre are repetitive by nature: punch some guys, move right, punch some more guys, more than likely ride an elevator, fight a boss, rinse, repeat until games end. What helps alleviate some of the tedium is being able to bring along a friend for the ride. In the arcade, where the games…
Comic book video games come in a variety of categories: Some use the comic solely as their source material, even calling on comic writers for story input, (The “Arkham” series,) others take inspiration from animated series (Batman: Vengeance,) and then there’s those that exist in the world of a feature film (The Amazing Spider-Man 2.)…
Xbox One fans won’t see any Amazing Spider-Man 2 game for the foreseeable future, but you can always count on Gameloft to have a mobile game ready for the next biggest comic book movie (Previous efforts include The Dark Knight Rises, the Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The…
I don’t know if I can speak about this game without wearing rose colored glasses as this game holds many cherished memories for me. As a kid, I loved Spider-Man. I loved the comics, I loved the cartoon and then I got to play a game featuring him on my Game Boy. I played through…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Marvel’s iconic web-slinger, and as we approach the 700th and supposed final issue of the Amazing Spider-Man, I thought it would be topical to look at some of the more important video games starring the wall crawling wonder. As popular as Spider-Man is, there was only one game…
Because I still had my Dreamcast hooked up, and the fact that it’s being rereleased as a download title in two weeks, I decided to take a look at the original Marvel Vs. Capcom. In the late 1990’s, what was known as the “Vs.” series became hugely popular due to its combination of Street Fighter…
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