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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.

jagiii4002d ago

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

SPAM-FRITTER-1234002d 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 ;)

JoySticksFTW4001d 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

AngelicIceDiamond4002d ago

Marvel 4 Life. Superman got nothin on Iron man.

jbl3164002d 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...

boing14001d ago

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

Baka-akaB4002d ago (Edited 4002d 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_Porkins4002d ago

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

Tonester9254002d ago

Wolverine Origins was a fun game

NukaCola4002d 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's Recent Antics Have Me Fearful For The Sands of Time Remake

Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."

thorstein2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.

*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*

Chocoburger1d 22h ago

At this point, only dummies have any hope left for Ubi-junk games.

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Disney adds Blizzard and Ubisoft veterans to its games leadership team

Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…

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Behind XDefiant's Toxic Work Culture, Crunch, and Years of Delays

Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.

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just_looken22d ago

Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
https://www.theverge.com/20...

This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.

jznrpg22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Every industry has these issues

Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.