No pants required for today's contest; win an Xbox One copy of Brief Battles! Well lookie here -- another padawan from Getting Weird with Wes graduates to the spotlight for its own contest! This warms my heart. It means that people like wei...

Following on from the mysterious rating we reported last week, Shantae developer WayForward and anime game gods Arc System Works have officially confirmed they are working together on a new entry in the face-smashing River City series.Detai...

The arcade beat-em-up genre was very strong in the '80s and '90s. Enter any arcade and you were bound to find at least 10 machines from different developers all in a row. Golden Axe, Ninja Gaiden, Final Fight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Dotemu has dropped a short gameplay trailer for Lizardcube's upcoming brawler Streets of Rage 4. The clip features ex-cops Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding ripping through a selection of recognisable enemies, backed with a sweet remix of the f...

Some might say that there are already enough Yakuza titles in the world, especially counting spin-offs and re-releases. Fortunately, those people are wrong, and Sega intends to prove so with the continuation of their face-smashing action-RP...

Sega has halted shipments and digital sales of its high-kicking detective title Judgment, following the arrest of actor Pierre Taki, who features in the game as Tojo Clan subsidiary captain Kyohei Hamura.Taki was arrested for alleged cocain...

So, I've played thousands of video games across the past 30 odd years. Thousands. But it's still amazing to me that the medium attained perfection as far back as 1989, with the release of Capcom's grindhouse brawler, Final Fight.They say yo...

It's a testament to the medium of video games that we simply haven't run out of ideas yet. Video games, with no rules or limitations set on length, flow, realism, or narrative, can conjure up an almost infinite number of wild situations pop...

Don't get yourself in a jam; enter our contest to win a copy of Hyper Jam for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. At 32, my reflexes aren't what they used to be. I'm slower, less aware, and overall just older than I was once. I hear that sort of thing h...

One of my favorite overlooked PlayStation 2 titles is a 2003 brawler called War of the Monsters. Inspired by B-movies of the 1950s, the game let you choose from a wide variety of Kaiju and giant robots, then battle it out in a 3D arena full...

To say that Square Enix FMV/brawler The Quiet Man met with critical derision is not an unfair statement, with a staggering 20 negative reviews of aggregate site Metacritic. The weird passion project, which sees a young, deaf mob enforcer on...

The latest addition to Hamster's Arcade Archive collection features a brand that we all know very well indeed. Even if the original games are kind of a massive chore to play through today, (don't get mad at me unless you've played Double Dr...

This contest will help you feel heroic: Win a Switch or PS4 copy of I Am the Hero. If there's one thing I definitely am not, it's a hero. Whenever games present the choice I of a "good" and "bad" playthrough I always choose the good side --...

Sega has released a new demo of the next release from Team Yakuza, the action-packed detective adventure Project Judge. The succinctly titled Project Judge Chapter One Special Demo is available to download for PS4 from the Japanese PSN stor...

All the talking and speculation and hype of the past few months has reached fever pitch, and now Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has gone gold and is ready for its highly-anticipated release on Nintendo Switch in just a few weeks' tim...

One week after release, Square Enix has released a new update to their critically mauled brawler, The Quiet Man. This new update adds dialogue and sound to the game, and is expected to add some clarity to the PS4 and PC adventure's obscure ...

That leak from earlier in the month was correct! Yakuza Kiwami and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition will be headling November's PlayStation Plus free games. Both are well worth checking out, especially at the low price of free. I'd suggest no...

Ys Net and Deep Silver have dropped a selection of new screenshots for Shenmue III, which is still a long way away from release. Still, nothing wrong with showing the people your current progress, right?The screens show off some of the loca...

A Kunio-kun compilation is going to be released in Japan this December. Coming to the PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch, it is set to include 18 games (19 with a pre-order) that span the entire legacy of Kunio-kun. If you aren't familiar with t...

Koei Tecmo has will be releasing another Dynasty Warriors title on the Nintendo Switch, with the announcement that the succinctly-titled Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition DX is coming to the hybrid console in December.The ...

For many western '80s kids, Akira was their first introduction to anime, with Katsuhiro Otomo's dystopian classic being one of the first anime movies to get a major push by the mainstream media. For me, however, my first anime encounter was...

Golden Axe, Sega's classic scrolling brawler from 1989, is to be immortalised on stage in the form a play, written and performed by Japanese collective Spiral Chariots.The old-school arcade classic, which sees three heroes on a quest to def...

Next month brings the launch of edgy underground hack 'n' slasher Darksiders III, which sees the flame-headed Fury take on an army of monstrosities in her quest to hunt down the Seven Deadly Sins.THQ Nordic has recently released details of ...

THQ Nordic has dropped another trailer for their hellish hack 'n' slash adventure title Darksiders III, helping players learn a little about the lore and backstory of the miserable den of sin and the denizens that reside within it.This shor...

THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games have dropped another cataclysmic trailer for underworld adventure sequel Darksiders III. In the new video, we get to see cyber-goth hero Fury adopt her "Force Hollow" form, giving her devastating new weapons and...