Tag Archives: Fighting

I say ‘welcome back’, because while we’re used to numbered sequels to this, the original SoulCalibur, the game was itself a sequel to arcade/PSone beat-em-up Soul Blade – a game that’s equally worthy of praise for its true 3D backgrounds and fights that actually looked like two people having a …

The next update to Sega’s Virtua Fighter series has been announced. After Virtua Fighter 5 debuted in arcades in 2006, it was ported to PS3 and eventually Xbox 360 in 2007. The next update, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, was released in arcades last year, but the upcoming console version …

Earlier this year, WB Interactive said it would release a collection of the original Mortal Kombat trilogy in “late summer.” True to its word, the company has announced said game will in fact come out in “late summer” – August 31 to be precise. It’ll hit both XBLA, PC and …

Street Fighter X Tekken is a game about impossibly muscular roving brawlers using magic spells on debatably female gang enforcers, a premise so sound it’s difficult to imagine the title inspiring any sort of oddity. However, Comic-Con in the middle of a heatwave will bring out the contrived craziness in …

A while back, someone realized that the timeless popularity of %26ldquo;behind the scenes%26rdquo; shorts meant that all you had to do was tidy the development office a bit, trawl a camera through, cut in some sizzle footage %26ndash; and boom, you’d have a trailer. Whereas some devs might use the …

Let’s get it out of the way, unless you already enjoy Super Street Fighter IV, there’s nothing in Arcade Edition that’s likely to change your mind. Unless you’ve got a fetish for Dragonball Z and X-treme skating twins in Kung-Fu shirts. Then you’re in business. So what does AE bring …

Without a doubt, Mortal Kombat’s heyday was the mid ‘90s, a time when it and Street Fighter ruled not just arcades, but home consoles as well. It enjoyed a brief resurgence in the mid 2000s with sequels like Deadly Alliance and Deception, but with each new game came more goofy …

Before we get to the problems, let me tell you why you should care. Streets of Rage 3 may be the collectors’ favourite due to its limited print run (in the UK at least), but Streets of Rage II is definitely the best game in the series. It’s a side-scrolling …

If this week wasn’t enough of an indication, we’re huge fans of Mortal Kombat here. Our love for the all things Outworld is only rivaled by our passion for stupid shit (opens in new tab),and as luck would have it, we get to roll our infatuations into one Voltron ball …