Colourful footage has surfaced for incoming brawler River City Girls, currently in development at Shantae-helmers WayForward. The gameplay video appeared as part of a live stream held by fighting game gods Arc System Works, who are also inv...

Taito has announced that their retro remake The Ninja Warriors: Once Again will be kicking ass worldwide on July 25, when the arcade reboot comes to PS4 and Nintendo Switch digitally as the pointlessly retitled The Ninja Saviors: Return of ...

Out of nowhere, Shantae developer WayForward has released, nay, unleashed the first trailer for the next game in the head-cracking River City/Kunio-kun series: River City Girls, coming to PC and consoles in September. The development is als...

Those of you ready to crack heads in Kamurocho (well, those of you who aren't currently doing it in Judgment), should mark down July 10 in your calendars, as Sega and Team Yakuza has announced that they have new information to reveal on tha...

Taito has announced that their recent Japanese release The Ninja Warriors: Once Again will be coming to North America and Europe courtesy of German publisher United Games. The old-school scrolling brawler will launch on PS4 and Nintendo Swi...

During their E3 presentation today, it was revealed that character from hit Cartoon Ntwork series Adventure Time are coming to dinky fighter Brawlhalla today. Finn, Jake and Princess Bubblegum all hit the roster later today.Not only that, b...

At today's E3 press event, Microsoft revealed the first gameplay footage for the new Battletoads title, first announced back in 2018. The Battletoads, for you younglings, were old-school video game heroes, stars of various Nintendo releases...

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...