In 2015 I looked at Acclaim’s roster of in-house produced comic book video games, and in 2016 I’m taking the year-long feature concept further and will determine what is the greatest Marvel console video game of all time. There are some things I’d like to clarify before the feature starts in the new year, the…
Fifteen years ago today, Sony launched the PlayStation 2 in North America, and in typing that sentence just now, I feel very, very old. It’s funny in hindsight because I remember being in my second year of highschool when the PlayStation 2 came out, and I was nothing but underwhelmed by its line-up and prospects.…
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…
Fighting games as a genre really took off in the 16-bit era due in no small part to the one, two punch of Capcom’s Street Fighter II and Midway’s Mortal Kombat. Getting games like that to work on 8-Bit devices where the input is limited to really two buttons was never really that good an idea, but it never…
Back around the time when promotion was starting to ramp up for Activision’s X-Men: Mutant Academy, I failed to see why the world needed it. I understood why it was coming out as Fox’s first X-Men film was on the way and there was money to be made, but save that, it never felt like a game I needed. As…
The Nintendo DS. Once a system I thought would spell the demise of the Nintendo handheld as we knew it, especially in the wake of Sony’s PSP device, went on to become a machine I would own multiple iterations of and spend countless hours playing. Games like Elite Beat Agents, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, the…
Marvel has been throwing around a lot of popular event names as a lead up to the return to their Secret Wars story in 2015; Everything from Old Man Logan, Marvel Zombies, House of M, and of course Civil War. Yesterday they posted another teaser with no ties to a previous event, simply titled “The…
With the release of Disney Infinity, I’ve been reading a lot of great stories on various web sites about adults recovering the joy they had playing with action figures as a kid, a sentiment I’m definitely feeling even after only putting a few hours into the 2.0 edition yesterday evening. With the anticipation I felt…
Disney Infinity 2.0 is mere days away and my anticipation is so high I can taste it, also my wallet is practically on fire to the point where I should probably be worried. There’s already a pile of awesome figures on the way within the next couple of months that we’re all going to have…
If you’ll recall from my review of this game on the SNES, I’m probably one of the few people in the world who took it easy on this game, despite knowing full well its myriad problems. Finishing this game, a feat I once thought impossible, is something that I will always look back fondly upon…
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