Neversoft’s Spider-Man and its Vicarious Vision’s developed sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro were great first attempts at making the Spider-Man game that everyone dreamed of playing, but were held back by the limitations of the consoles that they were on. Spider-Man’s webs for example seemingly attached to the sky, there were more interior environments than exterior and you couldn’t…
The closed beta for Marvel Heroes Omega on PS4 ends today with an open beta starting this Friday for those who played the closed beta followed by a roll out for everyone else on May 23rd. Until today Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion Entertainment has been quiet as to when those who own Xbox One’s will be able to play the…
Xbox One owners can now do more than play comic book games on their console thanks to a new app for publisher IDW. All owners of the console have to do is download IDW’s app, sign up for an account, and then download comics from their publishing library. Issues can be viewed either as standard…
Spider-Man enjoyed a comeback in the video game world thanks to efforts from developers Neversoft, Vicarious Visions and Treyarch, but it was around the time that Spider-Man 3 arrived in both theatres and on consoles as well as handhelds that things started to once again trend downward for the web-slinger. Spider-Man 3 was nowhere near as good as either Spider-Man…
In the fall of the same year that the original Injustice: Gods Among Us was released in 2013, an “Ultimate Edition” was released that contained all the downloadable content that came out post launch. This edition was available on two of the platforms it was released on: Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as the at the…
This week marks a lot of important anniversaries for the manufacturers who make the consoles that we love to play video games on: Monday marked the 15th anniversary of the arrival of Microsoft in the console space with the original Xbox; November 17th sees the 10th anniversary of Sony’s third entry in the console space…
2008 was an interesting year for video game publishing giant Electronic Arts, other wise abbreviated to EA. The year started off with them releasing a big name sequel in the month of January that was far different from the games that had normally come from that franchise in Burnout Paradise. As the year went on, EA’s catalog…
Zen Studios has been releasing digital pinball tables on their Zen Pinball 2 platform for several years, some of which have been based on classic Marvel characters and properties. Now for the first time some of the tables will be collected on disc for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Titled Marvel Pinball: Epic Collection Volume 1, the collected edition…
I’ve stated in the past that one of the sure ways to make a great comic book game is to marry a particular license to a pre-existing game franchise that just simply fits: Batman Begins for example is simply Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell with a Batman skin; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Acclaim’s Shadow Man have a lot in common with Nintendo’s Metroid Franchise and THQ’s The Punisher, the…
When you look at a character like the Hulk, you can see both a character that is pretty easy to adapt into a fun video game, yet at the same time extremely difficult. In some form or another, people have been making Hulk-esque experiences since the days of early arcade titles like Midway’s Rampage: Game’s granting players…
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