CELEBRATING THE CANADIAN DEVELOPERS OF COMIC BOOK GAMES ON CANADA’S 150TH BIRHTDAY

Canada, the country in which I call home, is celebrating a milestone birthday today. July 1st, 2017 marks the 150th birthday of the day that the country known as Canada came into existence. Video game fans owe a lot to the country of Canada, for without it and the talented people who live in it,…

WHY ISN’T THERE A MARVEL VIDEO GAME UNIVERSE?

Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008, the film to video game rights for all properties were licensed to publisher Sega to farm out development to whom ever they saw fit. While the results ranged from really good (Captain America: Super Soldier PS3/Xbox 360, Thor: God of Thunder Nintendo DS) to okay (The…

X-MEN: DESTINY TO BE DISCONTINUED

Wow, not long after Kotaku released the article about the troubled development cycle of X-Men: Destiny comes another piece of news about the now controversial game. As part of the lawsuit Silicon Knights lost against Epic over their use of the Unreal engine, they now must delete the code for any title they developed using…

SO WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED WITH X-MEN DESTINY?

X-Men: Destiny came out last year to little to no fanfare. Critics bashed it, sales were less than mediocre, and by now most people (outside of me) have probably forgetting about it. But what exactly happened that made it so bad? Publisher Activision has had a pretty decent record with the license in the past,…