(AfroGamers.com) When Image Comics launched in 1992, it had probably the most dangerous line-up of writers, pencilers, and inkers of any publisher’s roster at the time. Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino, and Todd McFarlane. Besides their creativity, what made this group of founders ...
(Afrogamers.com) To me, the 1990s had it’s ups like my getting my first ever A-B Honor Roll in 5th Grade and it’s lows like my near death experience when I nearly drowned to death during a field trip in pre-school. But the 1990s were also the peak years for black ...
(AfroGamers.com) This year marks Sega’s 60th anniversary. The company entered the video game business in 1973. It was in the 1970s that Sega capitalized on the arcade boom. With news that competitor Nintendo was working on the Famicon or Family Computer, Sega began work on their SG-1000. Both consoles released ...
(AfroGamers.com) I remember being at my older cousins’ house in the early 1990s and watching them play Skate or Die 2 on Nintendo at one house and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis two houses down. When you were the youngest and didn’t have your own console or handheld ...
(AfroGamers.com) When Marvel’s Spider-Man dropped in 2018, it changed storytelling in comic book games. From a gameplay standpoint, it was an open-world game with acrobatics—it’s the same formula from the Spider-Man 2 game as well as the Prototype and inFamous series. However, Insomniac Games really put their back into the ...
(AfroGamers.com) PlayStation Now has been around since 2014 and it has grown in its usefulness and line up of games. Before, PlayStation Now was alright. It had something you’d play but that was either because you really wanted to play it or you’re just going to have to play it. ...
(AfroGamers.com) My Hero Academia is one of the most popular anime out there today. In fact, they recently reached a milestone by selling more than 25 million copies of the manga and not too many creators can say that they have done that. My Hero Academia is so popular in ...
(AfroGamers.com) When I began dating my fiancée, we got into an argument over Hancock. Yes, the 2008 superhero film starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron. Oh, how she claimed I hated Hancock. Meanwhile, I’m wondering if we are actually having this argument. Like was that real argument? Over Hancock? Of ...
(AfroGamers.com) There are a few comics/manga/manhua/manhwa/webcomics out there that use gaming as a mechanic. The most common mechanic used is from RPGs and MMORPGs where the main character can read their own stats and those of others. One comic for gamers is Solo Leveling by Chu-gong with Jang Sung-rak handling ...
(AfroGamers.com) Roleplaying games or RPGs have been around since the late 1960s when it grew out of war gaming. It mixed interactive storytelling and micro management in the trappings of a game that encouraged social interaction. By the 1970s, we were getting our first RPG video games with the 1980s ...