The 2015 Game Awards just wrapped up, and there were some huge surprises mixed in with all the awards that were handed out. Something that came completely out of nowhere early in the show after a brief teaser video was the announcement that Telltale, those who have worked on the likes of The Walking Dead and Fables among many others,…
Platinum Studios, it seems, has a very good relationship with mega publisher Activision. After releasing a downloadable only game based on the animated series The Legend of Korra in 2013, they went on to reinvigorate the Transformers franchise with this year’s nostalgia heavy Transformers: Devastation. Now, according to Australia’s Classification Board as well as Brazil’s Ministry of Justice, the…
Rocksteady released their final game in the Arkham trilogy this year, but the studio behind 2013’s Batman: Arkham Origins is just beginning their work in the DC Universe. The studio behind Origins, as well as the Batgirl DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight titled A Matter of Family, are hiring for not one, but two, games in the DC Universe according to a hiring bulletin on their…
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…
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series is no stranger to comic book character cameos with both Spider-Man and Wolverine making appearances in the second and third chapters, respectively. Now to coax players back to the disaster that is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, Activision has just issued a 7.8 GB patch that for a series first will allow you…
NOTE: This review is spoiler free to the main Batman: Arkham Knight game. Before I booted up the two new Arkham episodes that went live yesterday for Batman: Arkham Knight, I was on the fence about whether or not a review of them would be necessary. Thus far all of the expansions have cost the same, and have…
Back when the PlayStation first game out, I honestly had no idea what it was. At the time there was an arcade that had just launched in Canada called Playdium and I legitmately thought they were the same thing. I had no knowledge of the botched SNES add-on vaporware that never happened, and in my mind…
I didn’t grow up writing. In fact, in school I was much better at subjects like math, science, or geography, any subject really where creativity took a back seat to memorizing formulas or facts. Those were the classes that got me my exam exemptions that afforded me more time to ride my bike around my…
It’s impossible not to be less than enthused when hearing news about how Marvel is adding X character to Y free-to-play game, especially after spending the last couple of weeks playing one of the greatest comic book games ever crafted in Batman: Arkham Knight. Where have the days gone where we got titles like X-Men Legends, The Incredible…
I’ve talked about a lot of games based upon comic book properties, but never once have I covered a game that’s set inside a comic book. To rectify this, today I’m going to be talking about Comix Zone, a game that while not based on a comic book property is a must-play title for fans of comic books, video…
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