Month: December 2014

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Celebrate Twenty Years of Marvel vs. Capcom with Izumojin’s Classics Exhibition

Exactly twenty years ago, Capcom released X-Men: Children of the Atom, its first fighting game to use the Marvel Comics license. What followed was explorations of other Marvel superheroes, crossovers with Street Fighter, and finally a full-on Marvel vs. Capcom war.

What better way to celebrate this momentous anniversary of the Versus series with one of the most stylish combo videos you’ll ever see? Izumojin recently put together nearly fifteen minutes of footage showcasing an extensive assortment of classic, spanning the timleine from X-Men: Children of the Atom through Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

You can behold all the beauty of Marvel in the video below. Here’s to twenty more years!

Source: Izumojin

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General: Year-End MMOG Hopes And Wishes

Year-End MMOG Hopes And Wishes

This being my final Free Zone column for 2014, my first inclination was to choose a topic in the looking back vein. When I started considering possibilities, I immediately dismissed the idea of doing something "me too" like best of awards, which the site does far more prominently than I could anyway. Instead, I decided to discuss a few ways I’d like to see the MMOG development and publishing industry change, however unlikely they may be.

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Guild Wars 2: 5 Things We Want from GW2 in 2015

5 Things We Want from GW2 in 2015

2014 saw quite a few changes to Guild Wars 2, both good and bad. Now 2015 is right around the corner, and we’re all wondering what ArenaNet has in store. While they have their own plan for the game, there will always be what we, the players, are hoping for. Here’s the 5 things players hope to see in 2015.