Thor is really when Marvel went all in on this comic book movie thing. Everything coming before it was still, at its heart, a grounded story in which the most “realistic” version of these heroes in our world was represented. Then came Thor […]
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For as long as people have been ranking Marvel movies there have been two constants. Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible Hulk can be counted to round out the bottom of that list. Often viewed as Marvel’s black sheep of the MCU, is this earned or is The Incredible Hulk simply a victim of Marvel’s only re-casting of a lead actor and a weird web of distribution rights?
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We’re in the Endgame now. Just 20 days to go before Marvel Studios unleashes the biggest theatrical event in a generation (if not ever), capping off a story that is 11 years and 21 films in the making. There’s no denying that what Marvel has done here is unprecedented. As we approach the big day lets take a look back […]
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Superhero games are hard, often constructed for a marketing deadline, like a film based on the same IP. We’ve been making these since 1979 and you can only count the great ones on one hand if we’re eliminating tertiary inclusions like any of the LEGO games, which all have the same basic framework regardless of the property they’re adapting (much […]
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Regardless of how you feel about the Marvel movies as a whole, Avengers: Infinity War is the definition of a cinematic event. Not just for the sheer spectacle or massive cast, though it has both of those to spare, Infinity War is a film that has done something no other film has done before. It is the culmination of 18 films and the world those films have built. Does it (can it?) live up to the hype?
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Dear Journal, Today I fought for truth, justice and the American way. Captain America: Super Soldier is a pretty standard 2.5D side-scrolling beat em’ up that draws comparisons to classic 2D games of the same type. You fight a horde of mindless enemy soldiers and the occasional boss through a series of rooms in a very elaborate German castle. At […]
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Dear Journal, Today I pretended I was Iron Man and also got a little bit of a work out. The Avengers: Battle for Earth is one of the newer games to make it into my backlog, and as anyone with a backlog will tell you, not all games spend as much time there. Still sort of hopped up on The […]
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Dear Journal, Today I traversed the nine realms only to be defeated by poor frame rate, pixelating graphics and, well, just too much bad to cover in an opening line. I want to just go on record right now and say that Thor: God of Thunder may be one of the worst super hero inspired video games of this generation; […]
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Once a year, the geeks of Chicagoland, the Midwest, and beyond make a trek into Chicago for a pop culture extravaganza known as C2E2. The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (hence C2E2) is one of the many general pop culture conventions that occur around the country in a year. I call them “general” in the sense that the convention does […]
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