When it was officially announced after several not too subtle leaks, the Platinum developed Activision published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan was given a vague “Summer 2016” release date. This vague window has now been narrowed by a large margin, as the game now has an official release date: May 24th, 2016. This comes from…
Once Capcom started making fighting games that pitted their stable of characters against the likes of the X-Men, the Marvel Universe and SNK, cross-overs that seemed impossible suddenly seemed very plausible. Could there eventually be a Marvel Vs. DC? How about Mortal Kombat Vs. Street Fighter? In early 2008, the now defunct Midway surprised many…
NOTE: The author of this article is a backer of this project After a successful Kickstarter campaign where they were completely funded and then some for the Battle Chasers revival video game subtitled Nightwar, developer Airship Syndicate made an announcement today on their blog of even more funding via a partnership with Nordic Games. Nordic Games funny enough became…
One of the biggest surprises of last year happened during the Game Awards when it was announced that Telltale games would be doing an episodic game based on none other than the Dark Knight himself, Batman. Other than a brief teaser though, little has been said about the project, which is going to change in…
Video games have not been kind to the Man of Steel. There are over a dozen games starring Superman that have been released, and the best one, Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, rests at a 64 on Metacritic. Lets not also forget that Superman also is the subject of much ridicule in the video game world, having starred…
Before the X-Men squared off against one another, or the Marvel Universe went to war with Capcom, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe fought one-on-one in what would become a trend for super hero in video games: put them in a fighting game. Given the huge popularity both at home and in the…
Marvel has done a lot of interesting variant covers over the years, from most recently with their takes on classic hip-hop albums to Lego versions of classic Marvel characters around the time that Lego Marvel Super Heroes came out in 2013. Never before, however, have they used their characters as they appear in Disney Infinity on a cover, which…
This Tuesday, Disney Interactive hosted an event where they unveiled some new Marvel Disney Infinity figures that would be launching with the Marvel Battlegrounds play set on March 15th: Ant-Man, Black Panther, Vision, and a solo alien costume Spider-Man. During this same event, it was announced that there would be no 4.0 edition of the popular toys-to-life game, and…
Spider-Man was not a stranger to video games in the 90’s, having at least one video game on every console or handheld available at the time and even teaming up with another Marvel property, the X-Men. It wasn’t until 1994 with the release of Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage though that a game starring the character was truly great. Like the…
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW Realistically speaking, every episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne is review proof: The Walking Dead is one of the hottest properties today; Telltale’s series based on said property is critically acclaimed and beloved and the main character in the mini-series is of the most popular of the cast. No matter what I say, if you’re…
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