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  1. Spider-Man 3 with Harry Steele (Games On Film)

    Let’s talk about Spider-Man 3, the movie where Sam Raimi looked at “menacing single antagonist” and said no thank you, I would like three, please, and also I would like Peter Parker to dance down the street like he’s auditioning for a jazz-hands cult. It’s a movie that tried to do everything, mostly succeeded at doing too much, and somehow still made enough money that Activision looked at it and thought: yes, this deserves not one video game, but two, spread across seven different consoles, so that literally nobody in 2007 could escape it. Ambitious! Chaotic! Extremely on brand for the source material!

    See, there’s the fancy version, built by Treyarch for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, where you get a whole open Manhattan to swing around in and the black suit shows up only when the story deems you emotionally ready for it, very mature, very earned. And then there’s the completely different budget cousin, built by Vicarious Visions for PS2, Wii, PSP, GBA, and DS, where you can slap the black suit on whenever you feel like being a jerk, the Wii Remote gets to pretend it’s a web-shooter, and the DS throws the D-pad in the trash entirely so you can beat up Sandman by poking a touchscreen like it owes you money. Same cover art. Same villains. Practically strangers.

    Swinging in to help me sort out how many wildly different versions of one questionable movie a single franchise can generate is Harry Steele, co-host of Games on Film, the podcast where he and his brother Rory spend their days grading movies based on video games! Which means Harry has built an entire professional skillset around asking “did Hollywood mess this up,” and today, for one glorious episode, we get to point that same energy directly back at a video game and ask if it managed to mess up the movie right back. Poetic justice! Content symmetry! Whatever you want to call it, it’s happening!

    So grab whichever suit you’re feeling today, pick a console, any console, apparently they all made their own decisions, and let’s find out if the Spider-Man 3 games handled three villains and seven platforms with any more finesse than the movie handled three villains and one dance number.

    Learn such things as:

    • How similar do games have to be in order to have the same title?
    • Do movie tie in games really need to care about what happened in the movie?
    • Isn’t Spidey supposed to have friends?
    • And so much more!

    You can find Harry on BlueSky @onlymanwhocan and of course his podcast Games on Film.

    If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

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    Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

    Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

    You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

    If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

    A big thanks to Murderworld the game and the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.

    Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who would let the Venom symbiote engulf him if given the chance.

    #Activision #GameBoyAdvance #HarrySteele #Marvel #NewGoblin #NintendoDS #PS2 #PS3 #PSP #SpiderMan #Treyarch #VicariousVisions #Wii #Xbox360
  2. 初代『コール オブ デューティ ブラックオプス』および『コール オブ デューティ ブラックオプス 2』が、現行のPlayStationハード向けに2026年7月に発売決定。「ゾンビ」モードも完全収録へ
    news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/

    #denfaminicogamer #Grezzz #Treyarch #コール_オブ_デューティ_ブラックオプス #CoD #Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops #ニュース

  3. 初代『コール オブ デューティ ブラックオプス』および『コール オブ デューティ ブラックオプス 2』が、現行のPlayStationハード向けに2026年7月に発売決定。「ゾンビ」モードも完全収録へ
    news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/

    #denfaminicogamer #Grezzz #Treyarch #コール_オブ_デューティ_ブラックオプス #CoD #Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops #ニュース

  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 & 2 Ports Announced For PlayStation

    Treyarch have announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are going to be released for modern PlayStation.

    They were not very forthcoming with details in their casual announcement on X, but let’s go through what we have: the ports are being handled by Iron Galaxy, will launch in July and will include multiplayer and zombies. They were not described as remakes or remasters, so do not expect any improvements or upgrades unless Iron Galaxy and Treyarch come along later and announce them.

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    https://twitter.com/Treyarch/status/2067321420032721282

    Weirdly, they described the games as coming to PlayStation. They have not yet clarified if this means PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, or just PlayStation 5. I would assume both because these are old games, so why limited them? But official confirmation would be nice.

    If you’re wondering why there is no Xbox release, that’s because both games are still playable via the Xbox Backwards Compatibility program. This again reinforces the idea that these are just ports with nothing new added.

    #CallOfDuty #CallOfDutyBlackOps #CallOfDutyBlackOps2 #IronGalaxy #News #PC #PlayStation #treyarch #Xbox