It's a commonly-held belief that Square Enix Kingdom Hearts has one of the most convoluted stories in video games. A commonly-held belief, that is, because it's entirely true. But fret not, because publishers Square Enix has dropped a serie...

Bandai Namco has finally confirmed that Jiren will be heading to Dragon Ball FighterZ. While he was probably the worst kept secret around, the company also revealed another three characters that will be heading to the hit fighter in season ...

Arc System Works and PQube have teamed up to deliver Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Edition, which is now slated for a spring 2019 release date on Switch. It's basically a re-release of the 1998 original plus the already announced Guilty Gear...

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is a fine Guilty Gear. After deciphering the title code that would put Kingdom Hearts to shame, you'll realize that this is actually a far removed upgraded version of 2002's Guilty Gear X2, which was also a...

The Japanese eShop has updated and BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition now has a Switch demo ahead of its February release (it's already on PC, PS3 and PS4). All you have to do to start playing is log in with a Japanese eSho...

Earlier this year at E3, I sat down with Cygames to talk about some of their upcoming projects. It was an odd meeting because, in truth, I couldn't talk about much of what I was shown. In the post I wrote about the meeting, I alluded to the...

This weekend at ArcRevo Japan 2018, Nintendo has announced that upcoming anime fighter Kill la Kill: IF will be launching on Nintendo Switch, alongside its previously announced PC and PS4 platforms.The brawler, currently in development at A...

Arc System Works has been busy. In addition to all the fighters they've been pumping out they're bringing the Psikyo Collections to Switch, propelling the shoot 'em up (shmup) genre back into the forefront. Just today they announced the thi...

It's easy to forget that Dragon Ball FighterZ came out in 2018 (we didn't, it's already being discussed for our Game of the Year lists right now) given that it launched on January 26. But since then it's taken the fighting game community by...

Super-trendy Japanese fashion line SuperGroupies, which sounds way too cool for someone my age, is releasing a range of slicking clothing and accessories based on the epic Arc System Works' anime fighters Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.The new ra...

We aren't, all of us, brimming with confidence about ourselves, our choices, and the narrative we've written in our short time here on Earth. I've been here the best part of four decades and I can honestly tell you that I'm still not comple...

Hidetaka Suehiro is a very busy man. For the past several weeks, Suehiro, who we all know as Swery, has been flying across oceans promoting the first title from his White Owls studio. It’s called The Missing, though the official title...

One of the blessings of the Nintendo DS was that it gave several Japanese exclusive franchises their first taste of international fame. The Starfy series made its debut in the west on the DS in 2008, six years after it had already foun...

A new update has launched for Bandai Namco's tag-team punch-up Dragon Ball FighterZ, bringing seasonal content and other new features to the ArcSys fighter.First of all, a new stage is now available for you to host your three-on-three throw...

According to a translated info dump from Arc System Works, Kill la Kill: The Game IF will feature an original story with series antagonist Kiryuin Satsuki as the lead character. Penned by Kazuki Nakashima (writer of the Kill la Kill anime),...

BlazBlue: Central Fiction closed out the franchise's main Ragna arc back in 2015 in Japanese arcades, a year later on PS3 and PS4, and in 2017 on PC, and now it's back...in Switch form! That's at least one port every year, not a bad ratio. ...

Fighters. DLC. An inevitable match. It didn't used to be that way when you unlocked everything on the cart/disc on day one, with the added benefit of immediately getting into the lab with every character. Alongside all of the negatives that...

Fighting game developer/publisher Arc System Works has released details on their new pro-tour circuit, ARCREVO, which was first announced at EVO 2018 earlier this Summer.Most of the details are fairly standard pro-circuit rulings. Players w...

Bandai Namco have released a lengthy four-minute video featuring gameplay of infamous Dragon Ball antagonist Cooler, who is headed into their fantastic Dragon Ball FighterZ as a DLC character next month.Rather than just a short flash traile...

We are just about one month exactly from the Nintendo Switch release of the controlled chaos that is Bandai Namco's excellent Dragon Ball FighterZ, which will come crashing onto the Nintendo console September 28.The publisher has put out a ...

So there's a Kill La Kill fighting game in the works. It sounds great right off the bat right? Well there's a few things that have people worried. First up there's the rock-paper-scissor system called Ketsui Testament which is framed a...

When Swery65's The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories was announced earlier this year, it left us kind of confused. When the first screenshots of the game debuted not too long ago, that confusion wasn't exactly cleared u...

Japanese publication Weekly V-Jump has revealed that the next DLC character will join the roster of Bandai Namco's excellent fighting title Dragon Ball FighterZ later next month.Cooler, the villain of the 1991 animated Dragon Ball Z movie C...

Dragon Ball FighterZ rocked the fighting game community at large when it arrived in January of this year, and EVO as a whole when it debuted as the most-streamed game ever. It's also due on Switch just next month on September 28, but r...

We weren't sure what to make of The Missing, an upcoming action-adventure game from Swery's studio White Owls and publisher Arc System Works, but now it's starting to materialize. Key word: starting. A new teaser website has surfaced with t...