1994's Shaq Fu isn't the Worst Game Ever, as hyperbolists like to trot out, but it was pretty damn bad. Sure, it was a bizarre one-on-one fighter which featured then-Orlando Magic NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal and a bunch of aliens and mon...

Sega have just announced that Hokuto ga Gotoku is coming to the West as Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. The game will launch in Europe and North America this Fall on PS4.Created by Team Yakuza (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio), Lost Paradise fo...

This week saw Hamster continue to plug away at their SNK re-release catalogue, this time bringing scrolling brawler Ninja Combat back to the fray on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Ninja Combat originally launched in the arcades and on th...

Though many of us may have played Technos Super Double Dragon title, released for the SNES back in 1992, very few had the opportunity to check out its Japanese counterpart Return of Double Dragon, the original iteration of the game that nev...

The crowdfunded sequel to famously bad 16-bit fighter Shaq-Fu will be slam-dunking its way onto multiple platforms in just a couple of weeks. For those of you who wish to show full commitment to O'Neal's return to videogames, Wired Producti...

Bandai Namco have announced that anime brawler Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker will receive a Western release on August 31, just one day after its Japanese launch.Unlike in Japan, where the game will only be available on PS4, North Americ...

Atlus' revamped edition of their heavy-hitting adventure title Dragon's Crown is now available on PS4. A new commercial, released by the publisher, shows that true love can bloom, even on the battlefield.It basically sees a happy-go-lucky c...

Can you imagine working your magic-weaving tail off, all year, reaching your last day of school, only to find that you are forced to relive it over and over again? No summer vacation? No trips to the beach? No mushroom gathering?! This is t...

Omensight is a game about furry, humanoid, animal things that are all trying to murder each other for various political reasons. The whole spectacle of it is absolutely adorable right up until the moment that it chooses not to be. The story...

Ever since the birth of pop culture, fantasy worlds have always been a go-to for adventure. Whether the works of Tolkien, Sword and Sorcery movies, the Fighting Fantasy game-books, or good old-fashioned D&D, it seems every generation ha...

This week sees the Western launch of Sega's Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. For over ten years we have watched protagonist Kazuma Kiryu defend the weak and the innocent with little more than a stoic demeanor, a sharp suit and a nearby bicycle o...

For me, the hook about Kazuma Kiryu, protagonist of Sega's long-running Yakuza series, is that once he shows up to a scene, you know everything's going to be alright. There could be damsels in distress, kids in danger, a buddy at death's do...

Saber Interactive's Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn has been given a release date of June 5. The tongue-in-cheek fighting sequel is coming to PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.A Legend Reborn is the two-decades-later follow-up to Shaq-Fu, whic...

Hamster have dropped another classic SNK arcade title onto modern-day platform as part of their ever-expanding Neo Geo ACA range. This time, however, we've gone beyond the 1990s, with scrolling brawler Sengoku 3.Originally released in 2001,...

Last generation's iterations of fantasy RPG-brawler Dragon's Crown are to receive a new update. This patch will not only prepare both the PS3 and PS Vita editions for cross-play with upcoming PS4 remake Dragon's Crown Pro, but they will als...

It isn’t often that you see a comfortable, workmanlike series like Yakuza do a complete overhaul in game mechanics or engine. The last time a dramatic shift like this happened was after Yakuza 2 to the Japan-only Ryu Ga Gotoku: Kenzan...

Data East's Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja, (or as everyone actually called it, DragonNinja) was a brawler that hit the arcades back in 1988, before being ported to every home computer under the sun. Now it will see its true calling, as it heads...

Square Enix have proudly announced, on the anniversary month of its Western release, that NieR: Automata has topped 2.5 million shipments and digital sales since launching in 2017.PlatinumGames' stark-but-chaotic hack 'n' slash title launch...

The best party games are the ones you're able to pick-up quickly. It's what makes Mario Party or Towerfall or WarioWare: Smooth Moves the go-to games for get-togethers with friends and drinking buddies. These are the types of games anyone c...

Cool-as-fuck gaming rockstar Travis Touchdown is gearing for action, as Nintendo announced, during today's Direct presentation, that Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes will bring its unique brand of mayhem to the Switch later this year.Th...

Although the remastered version of Vanillaware's brawler-RPG, Dragon's Crown Pro, has been available on Japanese PS4 for a few weeks, Western fans are still eagerly await the localisation of the sword-and-sorcery adventure.To help pass the ...

This week in the Neo Geo ACA range, SNK's scrolling brawler Sengoku 2 has been re-released for Nintendo Switch, courtesy of the fine folks at Hamster.Originally appearing in arcades back in 1993, before being ported to the Neo Geo home cons...

Blue Mammoth Games, the indie-studio behind free-to-play fighter Brawlhalla, are an indie no more. The 21-strong team have announced that they have been acquired by big-time publisher Ubisoft.Matt Woomer, head honcho of the Georgia-based st...

PlayStation Japan's spokesdude Takayuki Yamada is back being a loon in another TV commercial. This time, Yamada-san is channeling his inner-Kenshiro in preparation for the release of Team Yakuza's Hokuto Ga Gotoku.I'm not gonna do the tired...

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, a second crack at what's infamously considered one of the worst games ever, is probably going to be better than its predecessor. It's not a high bar to clear, and it'd take a staggering lack of self-awareness to re...