NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/26/2013 Raven Software, the developers of the Uncaged Edition of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, had built up quite a large amount of cred with comic fans in their previous efforts. In the PS2/GC/Xbox era, they were responsible for the highly praised X-Men Legends series and its spiritual successor Marvel Ultimate Alliance.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/06/2013 If the main draw of the first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead was the journey and developing relationship between Lee and Clementine, 400 days may come off as a bit of a disappointment to you. However if your love for the series is due to Telltale’s ability to…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/03/2013 Several years ago there was a game released called Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It was a game about a video game hero who was aware that he was a character from a game and poked fun at he medium and its conventions. Eat Lead was a…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/23/2013 I can’t think of an odder choice of a developer for a Superman game then the one attached to Superman Returns. Published by EA, Returns was crafted by EA Tiburon who are most famous for making sports game, specifically the Madden NFL series. I guess Superman hits people hard,…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 Iron Man 2 would once again be developed by Secret Level games, who were renamed Sega Studios San Francisco. The hope from publisher Sega was that by bringing in Secret Level under the official Sega umbrella the studio would be able to recover and make a better product than…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 When the original Iron Man hit theaters in 2008, publisher Sega launched an Iron Man game across every relevant gaming platform at the time. It would mark the first time that an Iron Man game would be released for a home console (not counting handhelds) where the hero would…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 02/01/2013 To say that I’m excited for Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an understatement. As a Marvel fan and someone who collects and writes about comic themed video games, it’s nothing short of a dream come true. However, my enthusiasm for a Lego themed Marvel game actually came about when…
Discussing the third chapter in the second season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead is difficult to do, as much of what transpires here hinges on having played episode 2 and even this episode. Without steering into any potential spoilers, episode three feels like Telltale is trying to accomplish something that is intended to shock its…
The X-Men films are no stranger to tie-in video games: A few days before the original X-Men’s release date of July 14th, 2000 gamers were able to pick up the underrated PSOne fighting game X-Men: Mutant Academy from publisher Activision, and several weeks before the first weekend of May release of X2: X-Men United, a…
Much like how 2011’s Batman: Arkham City capped off its DLC with the release of Harley Quinn’s Revenge, so to does Batman: Arkham Origins with this weeks release of Cold, Cold, Heart. While in the eyes of many Origins never reached the high standards of the games that came before it, WB Games Montreal has…
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