COUNTDOWN TO APOCALYPSE MONTH PART 3: MARVEL COMICS X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER/MARVEL SUPER HEROES VS. STREET FIGHTER (PSOne)

Is it just me, or did it seem like Capcom habitually used the X-Men as a testing ground for larger Marvel Universe ideas? On the SNES, there was X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse which was followed by Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. When the seeds of the Vs. Series were first being planted, there came X-Men: Children of the Atom which was precedded…

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD CHARACTERS COME TO LEGO MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS ON 3DS AND PS VITA

Lego Marvel’s The Avengers on both the PS Vita and 3DS is perhaps the closest the folks at TT Games have come to bringing the console experience to handhelds. Whereas previous Lego games on both devices were paired down, levels only affairs, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers had explorable open areas where quests and other collectibles waited. Now the handheld…

GOTG VOLUME 2, THOR: RAGNAROK, AND 12-INCH FIGURES ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE SADLY WON’T SEE FROM DISNEY INFINITY

If the cancellation of Disney Infinity was opening a wound; This latest news is throwing salt on it. Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek dug deep into what exactly led to the closure of Disney Infinity and uncovered a lot of ambitious plans for the game that unfortunately we’ll now never get to see. Had Disney Infinity continued, this fall we would have seen…

WHY DISNEY INFINITY FAILED AND HOW DISNEY CAN STILL HAVE A PRESENCE IN THE TOYS TO LIFE MARKET

This week’s news about the termination of Disney Infinity and the closure of internal Disney Interactive studio Avalanche Software resulting in the loss of three hundred jobs was nothing but tragic. As someone who may have loved the actual toys of Infinity over the game itself, it’s still sad to hear that hundreds of people who were very passionate about…

DOUBLE DOSE OF LEGO GOODNESS: BANE ARRIVES IN LEGO DIMENSIONS AND DOCTOR STRANGE DLC IN LEGO MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS ALSO ARRIVES

We’ve known for quite some time about one piece of Lego news today, that the final wave of Lego Dimensions fun packs arrives which includes the Batman villain Bane, but it looks like another Lego game is getting some love today as well. Last week the Black Panther DLC pack arrived for Lego Marvel’s The Avengers, and now not…