Review by Matt S. Pokken Tournament is a difficult game for me to review. Fundamentally I don’t like it much, but that’s simply a consequence of the kind of fighting games that I do like, rather than a comment on the quality of this game itself. Pokken Tournament is popular…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Having played almost every fighting game that Capcom has pushed out over the years, the Marvel vs. Capcom titles have been among my favourites. The series has never had the technical precision of the Street Fighter games, but there is a certain charm that comes with…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Last year, fans of bullet hell shooters were treated to Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet. Fusing bullet hell madness with the psychology of fighting games, it proved the genre is more adaptable than casual observers give it credit for. It’s easy to forget, though, that this…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Did you ever play “Roseball”? In the wake of the console release of Street Fighter IV way back in 2009, this mini-game emerged where people would play what was effectively Pong, but played in a Street Fighter setting. Each player would pick Rose, a character with…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. What springs to mind when you hear there’s a new cross over fighting game in development? Surely your mind sifts through images of Super Smash Bros. and the Capcom VS [insert company here] titles of the world. Perhaps you’re more in tune with the anime universe,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I know that the 3D Dragon Ball brawlers that Bandai Namco has been pushing out have their fans, but they’re not for me, at all. I find them to be clunky, limited, and generally uninteresting games that lack the nuance and style of the top-tier fighting…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have to start the review by giving credit to Nintendo for bringing something genuinely new to the fighting game genre. Just as Splatoon was able to create something distinctive within a fairly staid genre, even as it operated within the bounds of familiarity so that…
Read MoreTekken 7 has landed, finally! What a great game it has proven to be. This week on the podcast, the DDNet team talks all about the new addiction that we have to the big new fighting game. Because there have been so many fighting games released recently, we also take…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve never really been a fan of Tekken. Perhaps on a subliminal level the infamous rivalry between the creator of Dead or Alive and the creator of Tekken got to me. Or perhaps not. I’ve always appreciated the series for what it’s achieved, but I’ve never…
Read MoreList by Matt S. You may have noticed that we reviewed quite a few fighting games this week. A new Guilty Gear, Street Fighter and Injustice game, to be precise. In addition to that, on the Nintendo Switch there was an old King of Fighters game released as a Neo…
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