Author: Ian Bonds

At New York Comic Con, Activision announced the next game to feature Marvel Mighty Mutants.  In X-Men: Destiny, your decisions will control
the fate of brand new mutants in the X-Men universe. Every choice you
make matters, from your character to your power set to your story and
ultimately your destiny. Veteran X-scribe Mike Carey (X-Men,
X-Men: Legacy, Secret Invasion, The Unwritten) will be crafting X-Men:
Destiny‘s narrative, and famed developer Silicon Knights (Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, Too Human) is on board
for the game’s design.  The game is set to be released in 2011.

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for[[[Spider-Man]]] video games. Good, bad; I’ve played them all (own them all too).  So when they announced Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions where you’d be able to play as four different Spider-Men across four different dimensions, I was sold.  Taking Amazing, 2099, Noir and Ultimate (in the symbiote suit) and having them all working toward a common goal (save their universes, and all the other ones) is pretty daunting…what makes it more so is making each version unique and fun.  After some stellar games in the past years (the ones based on the first two movies) and some not so stellar ones (the one based on the third movie), it’s high time ol’ web-head got a title befitting his comic roots…all of them.

It seems Mysterio has found a mystical tablet that grants him unimaginable power…and of course Spidey has to show up in the nick of time and thwart his schemes…sort of.  In the fracas, he accidentally shatters the tablet, sending pieces of it across dimensions.  With the help of Madame Web and the other versions of Spider-Man, he must regain control of the fragments before they fall into the wrong hands…and rips the universe apart in the process.  There’s plenty of fan service throughout, but is that enough to make a good game?

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At the recent Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed two more fighters for their upcoming epic brawler, Marvel Vs Capcom 3, due out next year on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.  In addition to the previously revealed Marvel characters of Dr. Doom, Captain America, Hulk, Dormammu and Super Skrull; everyone’s favorite ret-conned web-head is back in the series.  No surprises here, actually, as Spidey’s been in every Marvel crossover fighter that Capcom has been involved in, and is arguably Marvel’s flagship hero.  Below you’ll find footage of Spidey in action, showing off his moves (which look like prettied up version of his attacks from the previous MvC games) as well as his new Ultra combos.  After the jump, you can also check out footage of the other revealed character, Wesker, from the Resident Evil game series.

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Mere DAYS after showing you the Scarlet Spider costume vignette, Marvel and Activision have released the fourth alternate costume vignette for Spider-Man; Shattered Dimensions, out on September 7th for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.  So much Spidey action here…almost makes me forget “Brand New day” happened!

Almost.