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Iron Man 3 Soars Past $680 Million In Box Office With Only Mobile Game Tie-In

Before Disney purchased Marvel for $4 billion in May 2012, Sega had released console and PC games based on the first two Iron Man movies. With Iron Man 3 blowing away box office records (over $175.3 million domestic for a total of $680.1 million worldwide) in under two weeks, there’s only a free mobile game from Gameloft for gamers.

Disney has failed to capitalize on Marvel video games in the console space, sitting out Marvel’s The Avengers last summer (Ubisoft had a non-movie Avengers: Battle for Earth comic-based game out last fall for Xbox 360 Kinect and Wii U). Disney has had success with the free-to-play Facebook game, Marvel Avengers Alliance from Playdom, and there’s always the potential for an Avengers game tied into the upcoming Avengers 2 movie.

jagiii4056d ago

I'd love to see a quality Avengers or Iron Man game.

SPAM-FRITTER-1234055d ago

A new Marvel Ultimate Alliance would be nice. The way the Marvel franchise has been updated in the cinema lately i think Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is in order.

Maybe with an enhanced 8 player co-op battle system.....Wink Wink ;)

JoySticksFTW4055d ago

Love, love, love MUA!

Just make it more like the first one though.

I thought the 2nd one was the worst of the bunch, out of the X-Men Legends / MUA games

AngelicIceDiamond4055d ago

Marvel 4 Life. Superman got nothin on Iron man.

jbl3164056d ago

Yea, man. Same goes for The Dark Knight Rises too. Huge movie, but game was only available on mobile devices. Although Avatar had a game out, but it under-performed in terms of sales...

boing14055d ago

Batman Begins had a tie-in game. Wasn't that bad AFAIR.

Baka-akaB4055d ago (Edited 4055d ago )

"Disney has failed to capitalize on Marvel video games in the console space, sitting out Marvel’s The Avengers last summer"

And they were right to . Everyone needs to stop releasing movie games adaptations , the only time they are decent is when they set out to transform a game already under development (like what happens with wolverine and Spiderman 2) or when it's done regardless of a movie's release date .

And before disney pursue Marvel stuff they need to hire or build good enough studios .

Not to mention getting some rights back from the filthy hands of activision .

Jek_Porkins4055d ago

Ironman 2 was a decent game by Sega I thought, much better than the first one anyway.

Tonester9254055d ago

Wolverine Origins was a fun game

NukaCola4055d ago

Thats because it was an original IP before it was forced into a movie game. See how the game was violent. It would of been so much better had it stayed a stand alone story.

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Ubisoft Forward 2024 start date, time and how to get free rewards

Start date and time for when Ubisoft Forward 2024 will begin along with a guide for how to get free rewards by just watching.

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Ubisoft Forward: Official Livestream - June 2024

Ubisoft Forward is back and live from L.A. with an exciting line-up of games and announcements. Watch live June 10 2024 at 12PM PDT/9PM CEST. Preshow starts at 11.30AM PDT/8.30PM CEST

Garethvk2d ago

Star Wars Outlawa has some real potential. I loved the Fallen Order games but the abundant timed jumps at times took me out of the narrative as they could be come frustrating. The branching options and status with factions looks great.

-Foxtrot2d ago

Prince of Persia 2026…REALLY? And that’s all they had for us…a candle.

Jesus. Imagine if they didn’t give it to a shitty support studio and tried to sell us a sloppy remake years ago

Now we have (no hate on quality here) two PoP games no one asked for. We could have been anticipating a Warrior Within remake by now.

Elda1d 23h ago

LOL!! They should have even announced it. They should have just waited a year from now to announce it with some gameplay. Lame.

Terry_B2d ago

Sorry for everyone who watched this ;)

LordoftheCritics1d 23h ago

Where's the quadruple A games?

Elda1d 23h ago

No surprises just updates on existing games & games that have already been announced. A lame show.

-Foxtrot1d 23h ago

The "could have been an email" type of show.

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Garethvk13d ago

We can hope. Especially if the rumors of Cillian Murphy and Alaska are true.

RaidenBlack13d ago

That'd be too good if true.
But Henderson also leaked that next Far Cry setting was targeting some asian island.

jznrpg11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

With their shitty practices I really don’t care what Ubisoft announces until they reverse their course

Relientk7713d ago

Assassin's Creed Hexe is what I wanna hear about most. Yes I wanna play as a witch with magic during the 16 century witch trials in Germany (as per rumors). Sign me up

Huey_My_D_Long13d ago

Yeah, Hex sounds amazing to me as well, and I've been playing since AC 1. I'm real curious how are they gonna fit the magic into the game, maybe in similar way the dlc introduced gods and god abilities. but I love that I've heard its gonna have a horror vibe.

Garethvk13d ago

Hopefully it is full of good stuff.

Garethvk13d ago

I would love The Division 3.

RaidenBlack13d ago

The studio just completed Avatar and busy with Outlaws and also got their F2P Heartland cancelled ... IMO, Division 3 will surely come but it'll take more time.
I'd be most thrilled if Ubisoft greenlits a sequel or at least a remake of the studio's first game i.e World in Conflict

anast12d ago (Edited 12d ago )

I would get hyped about Hexe. If the rumors are true, UBI might get a gold edition purchase out of me.

Demetrius13d ago

Hopefully gameplay of ac shadows or star wars outlaws, if they finally announce the new far cry I'm definitely getting that, far cry still fun af and gorgeous games, yeah ubisoft has their faults but atleast they're not copying souls like games their titles still have identity

neutralgamer199213d ago

We will definitely see gameplay for star wars and AC. Farcry let's see

OtterX13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

I'm going to be an outlier amongst the rest of these comments.... give us something NEW! I'm pretty burnt out on Ubisoft franchises, unless you're giving us a new Rayman game!

*Edit - imagine what they could do with a Rayman 3D game in this day and age. I say now is the time to revisit the series.

RaidenBlack13d ago

Would love a AAA PoP too or a back to roots Ghost Recon (none of the open world stuff)

MeatyUrologist13d ago

Hell yes! Ghost recon in the style of the originals with real consequences, permanent and all!

jznrpg11d ago

I love Rayman, played it a ton with my kids years ago. But Ubisoft puts dumb crap in their games. MTs , paid tiers , always online requirement for single player games and as they stand now I could see them doing that to Rayman

OtterX11d ago

Yea unfortunately, you're right. :'(

Garethvk13d ago

Beyond Good and Evil 2: It is coming really; we promise.

OtterX13d ago

Their microtransaction monetization scheme on it will lie somewhere between good and evil!

Haha JK.... it'll be completely evil. 🙃

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