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.
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.
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.
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Editor's Note: If people in the gaming industry really wanted to hide stuff, they're going to have to do better. The one and only Superannuation keeps digging and keeps finding gems. Today, on the day that 343 Industries' Halo 4 is out, Superannuation has a massive update about how Destiny, the next game from the…
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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.
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There probably hasn't ever been a superhero who hasn't gone through the cycle of losing his/her powers, getting them back and becoming more powerful than ever. It's been the same for video game series devoted to costumed crimefighters. With Rocksteady Studios' Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, Batman's currently enjoying …
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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 an …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Spider-Man had run out of web-fluid. That's what most people thought after playing the last web-slinging game from Activision. Spider-Man: Edge of Time met with harsh reviews and felt like a rushed, muddled time-traveling mess. Where was all the freedom, fans asked? And what about the speed? The evils of annualization …
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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?
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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 the…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Spider-Man: Edge of Time hits stores tomorrow, bringing the worlds of the Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 clashing together violently. Then the kicking starts.
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Hitting comic book store shelves today, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 introduces the world to Miles Morales, the African America / Latino replacement for the deceased Peter Parker, and while you can't play him in Spider-Man: Edge of Time you can definitely dress like him.
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