There’s a terrific anime streaming on Netflix called High Score Girl. It’s a slice of life story about a budding relationship between two young kids but filtered through the ‘90’-s arcade scene, in particular the booming popularity of fighting games like Capcom’s Street Fighter II. Due to how authentic the show is of the era…
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order officially launches tomorrow, though some have managed to get it early, and before the the game is even out, Nintendo is already preparing for its future. Announced at the Marvel Games panel during San Diego Comic-Con, Thor’s brother and perpetual thorn in his side, Loki, will launch tomorrow as…
Arcade 1UP, a division of Tastemakers LLC that produces affordable, arcade cabinets with pre-loaded games sized for the home, has seemingly done the impossible with two of their upcoming releases. Announced just today at E3, a cabinet housing Capcom’s The Punisher, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes joins another that will have Konami’s…
X-Men fans had a lot to get excited over with the latest trailer for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order which was just filled with love for mutant kind. The only way the trailer could have gotten any better is if someone cut it to the incredibly catchy theme song to X-Men: The Pryde of the X-Men,…
Both Marvel and DC have dipped their toes into the VR space with the likes of Batrman: Arkham VR, Marvel Powers United VR and the upcoming Marvel’s Iron Man VR. In his latest video Diego Rivera discusses the characters he would like to see get brought into the medium. Watch the video below, and leave a comment on what characters…
From the second it was announced late last year, Marvel wanted people to know they were committed to adding X-Men and related characters to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order with the debut trailer showing Wolverine beheading a Sentinel. If that trailer didn’t reassure you, the latest certainly will as it features both X-Men like Wolverine,…
Earlier this year, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart were each awarded Guinness World Records for the “longest career as a live action Marvel superhero” having played Wolverine and Professor Charles Xavier respectively for 17 years from 2000-2017. Jackman also held a record for the most times playing a superhero which, according to IGN, was just…
Before the days of Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, console exclusive comic book video games were a big selling point of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin, or simply Spider-Man (1991), was the first ever 16-bit console Spider-Man game and it was followed two years by X-Men when the team was arguably the hottest thing going in comics at the…
This week the world turns its collective attention to Marvel Avengers: Endgame, a film that will conclude over a decade of films in the shared Marvel Cinematic Universe and reveal the fate of those affected by The Snap at the conclusion of Marvel Avengers: Infinity War. Throughout the years there have been many Marvel video games that share a…
After weeks of will they/won’t they speculation and hope from fans who want the likes of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to share the screen with the Avengers in a Marvel movie, Disney has officially purchased 21st Century Fox’s film assets to the tune of over $50 billion, ultimately meaning that such things can…
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