DEVELOPER: Firaxis Games PUBLISHER: 2K Games REVIEWED ON: Xbox Series X from a copy purchased by the author. Building an RPG around superheroes is not a task that should be taken lightly. The expectation of many players going into a comic book video game is that they want to experience the power fantasy that comes…
Going into the busy holiday shopping season, Arcade1up’s major comic book video game offering this fall was once limited to their X-Men cabinet which includes the classic arcade game, Captain America and the Avengers, and Avengers in Galactic Storm. Now the maker of home cabinets have a few more units to add to their catalog…
PlayStation just put off a digital event, dubbed the PlayStation Showcase, with announcements that that hit as hard – if not harder – than an E3 press conference. This goes double, or even triple, if you’re a lover of Marvel. The first taste of Marvel came from a new look at the upcoming Marvel’s Guardians…
Last week during Gamescom, the world got its first glimpse at Marvel’s Midnight Suns from developer Firaxis Games via a cinematic trailer. The tail end of the reveal teased that the first gameplay footage for the title would be revealed on September 1st, and today we got just that. The story of Marvel’s Midnight Suns…
Starting today on Disney+, the multiverse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be explored in the new animated series, What If…?. Based on the Marvel comic book of the same name, What If…? will spotlight such divergent outcomes as Peggy Carter getting the Super Soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers, and T’Challa taking up the…
“When we’ve dabbled with backwards compatibility, I can say it is one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much,” says Ryan. “That, and I was at a Gran Turismo event recently where they had PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 games, and the PS1 and the PS2 games, they looked ancient, like why…
Last week, to the delight of many, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, produced in partnership between Dotemu and Tribute games, was announced. A game that no one saw coming at all, Shredder’s Revenge is a love letter to the beloved TMNT titles produced by Konami – and the 2007 TMNT game for the Game…
During the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, CES for short, Arcade1up announced their new line of cabinets, and easily the most exciting reveal was the return of Konami’s beloved arcade game, X-Men. Not only does the unit include the classic brawler, but also Data East’s Captain America and the Avengers, a game not seen since the…
Home cabinet manufacturer Arcade1up has perhaps done more to preserve classic comic book games than any other company in the past few years. In 2019, they not only brought back the likes of X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes and The Punisher, the latter of which was never rereleased outside of a Sega…
Home cabinet manufacturer Arcade1up announced their line of new machines back in early June. Two of these units not only include some of the greatest Marvel arcade games ever made, but also a pair of Super Nintendo games that have never before been rereleased. Pre-orders are open as of today at select retailers. There’s some…
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