• Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Raises The Bar For Tag Fighters

    Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Raises The Bar For Tag Fighters
    For many fighting game fans, It's impossible to look at Marvel Tokon and not think of Marvel Vs. Capcom. The crossover series defined the crossover tag genre, from X-Men Vs. Street Fighter in 1996 to Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 in 2011. For some who didn't read comics as a kid, myself included, these games were the introduction to the X-Men, Avengers, and other Marvel faces that fought alongside Capcom's top characters.With MvC dormant outside of a recent collection, Arc System Works has s
  • Wolverine Hands-On Preview Impressions

    Wolverine Hands-On Preview Impressions
    Tam played a couple of hours of Wolverine and was shocked to see just how much of what I experienced lines up with the current X-Men media landscape.Wolverine takes place on Earth-1048--the same universe as Insomniac's Spider-Man games--and opens with an assault on a Weapon X base, where Wolverine teams up with his longtime hater Sabertooth. I played through this just days after watching them both do the same thing in X-Men '97.A foolhardy mission featuring Wolverine is a pretty common narrative
  • Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Feels Like Four Games’ Worth Of Fire Emblem – Preview

    Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Feels Like Four Games’ Worth Of Fire Emblem – Preview
    With four campaigns that each have multiple systems of their own, Fortune's Weave may be the most ambitious Fire Emblem to date.