With its movie inspiration webbing up box office money this weekend and our official review forthcoming, I figured it was a good morning to play around with Spider-Man and his amazing friends. » 5/03/14 11:05am 5/03/14 11:05am

As if three movie villains weren't enough, Electro and the Green Goblin are are joined by the ugliest Kingpin ever, bad-hair-lighting Black Cat and... is that Carnage? Yeah, Parker is screwed. » 4/07/14 9:28am 4/07/14 9:28am

Cunning, resourceful and deadly, spiders are some of nature's most perfect predators. Movie universe Peter Parker has potential, but he's going to need help to hone his abilities. Enter Kraven the Hunter, teaching stalking 101 in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game. » 1/23/14 9:00am 1/23/14 9:00am

Nivanh Chanthara is a French concept artist who works at Beenox, a studio that's worked on a bunch of games for Activision over the last few years. His latest project is an "unrevealed" AAA project. » 2/15/13 1:00am 2/15/13 1:00am

At New York Comic-Con, Beenox—the studio behind The Amazing Spider-Man video game adaptation, said the title would be coming to the Wii U in spring 2013. » 10/14/12 3:00pm 10/14/12 3:00pm

I bet the folks that do public relations and marketing for innovative and thoughtful games like From Dust and Journey spend days and days brainstorming inventive ways to communicate complex ideas in ways that appeal to the consumer. Meanwhile The Amazing Spider-Man UK marketing team nipped off early after putting in… » 6/29/12 8:30am 6/29/12 8:30am

While we continue our review-aimed adventure with the new Peter Parker under, over and through the streets of New York, here are some of the fun features of The Amazing Spider-Man you can expect to experience in the game's earliest moments. » 6/27/12 9:30pm 6/27/12 9:30pm

Since his role as the ring announcer in the first Spider-Man movie, B-movie and television star Bruce "Ash" Campbell has been a fixture in the webslinger's video games. Next week's The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. » 6/22/12 1:15pm 6/22/12 1:15pm

I was initially skeptical about Stan Lee's cameo appearance as a playable character in The Amazing Spider-Man. Now that I've see this video, I might be persuaded to buy an entire Stan Lee game. » 6/20/12 4:45pm 6/20/12 4:45pm

As the Beenox representative controlling The Amazing Spider-Man during the game's E3 2012 presentation launched Peter Parker off the top of a tall building in virtual New York City, my stomach heaved sympathetically. » 6/11/12 8:30am 6/11/12 8:30am

The interwebs are abuzz with the news that comic book legend Stan Lee will upgrade from his usual cameo role to playable character in Activision's Spider-Man movie tie-in. Seriously? » 3/01/12 9:15pm 3/01/12 9:15pm

Superhero movies flirt with distaster when they try to throw more than one antagonist at the main character. But, superhero video games? They thrive on that formula. So, in the first of what we have to assume will be many unveilings, Activision's rolling out a look at how old-school bad guy the Rhino will look in… » 2/24/12 9:00am 2/24/12 9:00am

After two games that weren't exactly dripping with hot web-slinging action, developer Beenox takes things open world in the Amazing Spider-Man. How focused are they on swinging this time around? So focused that they haven't noticed they've stolen the plot from a Robocop move. » 12/10/11 9:15pm 12/10/11 9:15pm

There's a Spider-Man movie reboot coming next summer, with The Social Network's Andrew Garfield wearing the webbed uniform of Marvel Comics' premier character. The Amazing Spider-Man movie will be accompanied by a game of the same name, built by Montreal's Quebec City's Beenox dev studio. That collective turned out… » 12/07/11 12:00pm 12/07/11 12:00pm

What defines Spider-Man? Is it his special powers? His great responsibilities? His Jenga prowess? No, true believers. Spider-Man's most definitive trait is his witty banter, and double the Spider-Man means double the snappy patter right? Thank goodness Edge of Time had Peter David. » 10/06/11 6:00pm 10/06/11 6:00pm