Going into Summer Game Fest 2025 Play Days, I was invited to get hands-on (and hands-off) with a bunch of upcoming titles. But if I’m being honest, there was only one game I was truly excited about: Marvel Cosmic Invasion.
You have no idea how much this game means to me. I grew up on Marvel, watching all the old cartoons, reading stacks of comic books, and playing every Marvel video game I could get my hands on. My Marvel video game journey started all the way back with that Spider-Man game on the Atari 2600. The one where Spidey can’t even crawl onto the windows. It was janky, but it was Marvel, and I loved it.
Now here we are in 2025, and not only are we getting a brand-new 2D beat ’em up, but it’s coming from Tribute Games, the team behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. That alone had me hyped. But then you throw in Dotemu. Yeah, the same Dotemu that helped bring back Streets of Rage 4 with Guard Crush Games and Lizardcube. Now we’re talking beat ’em up royalty.
You gotta understand. I’m a 40+ year-old gamer who...
