Happy New Year everyone!  This is the time for New Year Resolutions, for Fresh Starts and New Beginnings.  One new beginning appears to be the end for Marvel games developed by Activision on digital platforms.  Several games including the co-op title Spiderman: Friend or Foe have been pulled from Steam, XBL and PSN.

Spider-man has had a long and generally successful video game career.  Spider-man for the Atari 2600 was an early game based on the web-slinger, and it was quite fun and addicting for the time.  A whole slew of Spidey games followed, for a large variety of game systems.  The Amiga, PC, NES, Game Gear, Game Boy, Genesis, Super Nintendo, and more all had multiple titles, of varying quality.  With the explosion of Spider-man's popularity after the movies, the wise cracking webhead hit the previous generation of consoles, culminating in what in my opinion, is the finest Spider-man game to date, Spider-man 2.