At last year’s E3, you couldn’t escape the Flash. I mean, you can’t really escape him normally but it was especially egregious wandering between halls in the Los Angeles Convention Center last June. Huge, spanning banners for Injustice: Gods Among Us dominated the entire airspace in the walkway between South and West Hall and all [...]
Fighting games and all that surrounds it is inherently insular. There are no other genres that focus so much on netcode variance and frame counting because no other genres demand it to be successful. Up until the Cross Assault debacle in February of last year, few people even knew that the fighters and fans referred [...]
I, uh, don’t really know how to put this, but there’s a new Shaquille O’Neal video game out. Sure, this was announced back in December, but now it’s really real. It’s been almost 19 years since the release of his last interactive entertainment endeavor with the fighting game classic Shaq Fu, but that changes today [...]
Way back in 1998, the thing that stuck out to me about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure was that it was often touted as the “new CPS III game,” with CP System III being at the time the latest arcade board for head-to-head fighting games from Capcom. This, of course, was mostly meaningless to an 11-year-old in [...]
You know what? I like it when games don’t try to pretend to be something they’re not. I don’t need a fighting game to masquerade as something with a story (though the last Mortal Kombat actually did fairly well) and I don’t need Kinect games to pretend they work (ooohhhh snap! Also, just kidding (mostly)). [...]
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