Back in 1993, Mortal Monday hit the world and the arcade behemoth Mortal Kombat came to the home console. Now, over 20 years later, Digital Eclipse and Atari bring us Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, a curated collection celebrating the early years of the gory fighter with titles from the arcade, home, and handheld console releases. […]
Outside of your Capcoms, SNKs, and Namcos, you also have the unsung heroes of the fighting game world, such as the subject of my topic today, Eighting. Let’s see if their checkered history of traditional and anime fighting games strikes up another win or loss for them with Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact. Double […]
In typical Capcom numbering style, we now get the third Capcom Fighting Game Collection with Capcom Fighting Collection 2. Following the dream re-release of Marvel Vs Capcom Fighting Collection a year earlier, we have a slightly more SNK-themed release this time around. Perfectly timed with the recent return of Fatal Fury, right? Will this be […]
It has been 26 years since the Wolves last threw down in Southtown. Although the original Mark of the Wolves was overlooked at the time for the more popular SNK titles like Samurai Shodown or King of Fighters, the world made noise when Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves was announced a few years back, […]
We are in the middle of an SNK resurgence, and I couldn’t be happier. Between new releases and rereleases, we have been eating well lately. Joining the group of SNK rereleases is The King of Fighters XIII, but with rollback netcode. This has gone well for previous fighting games such as Guilty Gear XRD/AC+ and […]
It is another year and another release for the king of the anime tie-in, Dragon Ball. Fans around the world are offering their energy to Bandai Namco as they take on the test of producing the next contender in Dragon Ball’s Budokai Tenkaichi series. Put down your Xenoverse 2 and your FighterZ; it’s time for […]
After Netherrealm shook up their release cycle by releasing Mortal Kombat 1 after Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, many were curious as to what the team would do to follow up the polarizing title. It seems that the team isn’t quite ready to move on from this iteration of the series just yet. They’ve followed up […]
Back in the 90s, everyone had their dream matchups: Batman vs Superman, Spiderman vs Ironman, and so on. Following the boom of X-Men and its fighting game debut, gamers around the world asked the question, could Cyclops beat Ryu in a scrap? Well, Capcom was happy to answer that question in a string of some […]
The year is 2003, two years after Capcom’s release of one of the most popular fighting games of all time, Capcom vs. SNK 2. SNK had a tall order to follow it up, and through a lot of trials and tribulations, they released SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos. Twenty years later, we are getting a […]
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys: Celes is the latest in the rather niche “anime fighting game” franchise developed by French-Bread, famous for the Melty Blood series. Will this game add to the ever-growing landscape of fighting games in 2024, or be condemned to death on arrival? The Midnight Hour Approaches For fans of the lore […]