“This is likely a huge turning point for the industry,” a guy on Twitter breathlessly enthuses, after it was revealed that MultiVersus has done quite well for itself at this early stage. Of course, it’s not uncommon for people to have breathlessly excited responses to games they kind of like…
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Capcom’s previous retro fighting game compilation, 2018’s Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, was an excellent and loving historical record of Capcom’s most valuable property. Four years later the company has done much the same thing with the Capcom Fighting Collection… but if anything I think this is the superior option…
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Interview by Matt S. The most recent instalment in the King of Fighters series, KoF:XV, launched not too long ago. We thought it was a pretty decent effort overall, and certainly the kind of title that competitive fans will enjoy. We had the chance to get some very (very!) quick…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Athena might not be Marie Rose, but it’s close. It is so, so close. In King of Fighters XV, one of the alternative colour options for Athena gives her slightly darker skin and white hair and… I just about lost it when I saw that. Gorgeous.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Demon Slayer has become an anime behemoth. The recent(ish) film had the rare achievement of pulling in over $500 million in the box office, and that is something other beloved anime films like Your Name and even the classic Spirited Away weren’t able to manage. As…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I went into Guilty Gear Strive expecting to spend three-quarters of the review talking about Guilty Gear’s best character, Dizzy. I even had an awesome joke planned, since Dizzy wears skin-tight tiny shorts. I was planning on breaking out the old Austin Powers “how do you…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Among the hardcore fighting game community, there aren’t many names with greater prestige than Melty Blood. The series stretches right back to 2002 and now, in 2021, we’re getting the rarest of rare treats – a worldwide release of the new one, to be called Melty…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. SNK has announced the sixth in its ongoing effort to bring its Neo Geo Pocket Color classics to Nintendo Switch. The new one will be SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, and this one is apparently very, very good. Related reading: Our review of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Having never owned a Neo Geo Pocket Color, I have really appreciated SNK’s efforts to emulate a range of the classics and bring them to the Nintendo Switch. Fatal Fury: First Contact is the fifth in the series, following SNK Gals’ Fighters, Samurai Shodown! 2, King…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People often forget that the genesis of Super Smash Bros. was as a modest, local multiplayer, fun-over-competition brawler. Given how bloated and meta the series has become it is easy to forget that, but on the Nintendo 64, Super Smash Bros. had a tiny few characters…
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