As you may or may not know, I'm a huge fan of beat 'em ups/brawlers. It's a love which comes from a youth misspent in arcades, resulting in Capcom's Final Fight being, arguably, my favourite video game of all-time. However, ask me which is ...

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, like a lot of fighting games recently, continues to get heaps of support even a year after its release. Square Enix has been steadily adding and revealing new costumes and characters since its January 2018 launch ...

Good news for shmup fans, as City Connection has announced that anime arcade blaster Deathsmiles and its sequel, Deathsmiles II, are currently being prepped for ports on a selection of currently unknown platforms.The announcement came this ...

The Summer season may be coming to an end, but retro game enthusiasts Hamster are keeping the sports-day spirit riding high, having released Konami classic Track & Field on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, as part of the publisher's ongoing Arc...

Today's contest is for a Switch copy of arcade soccer game Golazo! I like soccer as much as the next guy, but let's get one thing straight - it can be downright awful to sit through. When the action is up it's aces, but when a grown man is ...

The cult classic Killer Queen is breaking free from the arcades that it was restricted to. First revealed at E3 2018, multiplayer party game Killer Queen Black is headed to homes next month. Developer Liquid Bit has finally naile...

Publisher SNK has spilled the beans on its new arcade stick hardware, which it first revealed to the public last week. The Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro is a multi-function device for use with PC, TV via HDMI, or SNK's own cutesy console, the Ne...

It's a good season for beat 'em up fans. This week saw the release of WayForward's radical brawler-cum-RPG River City Girls. There's an exciting looking return to the Streets of Rage on the horizon, and even Battletoads is getting a look-in...

SNK continues to make the current generation of consoles one of its most productive in years. Alongside the release of great games such as King of Fighters XIV, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy and Samurai Shodown, the long-time publisher has ...

Retro game publisher Hamster continue to reach out for titles from the NES VS. range for its weekly Arcade Archive releases, as this week's offering sees the return of NES launch title Pinball, now available to download on Nintendo Switch. ...

Sega may have got off to false start with its upcoming sports compendium Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. A recent update to the publisher's TGS 2019 website appears to have revealed the entire launch roster for the track ...

There's something inherently old-school about water skiing. One of the more classic water sports (grow up) water skiing wither conjures up images of girls from the 1930's forming dangerous pyramids, or some poor sap getting annihilated in m...

Windjammers fans got a double dose of day-glo news yesterday, as Dotemu released a new trailer revealing new characters headed to the upcoming Windjammers 2, along with the announcement that the sequel would be hitting the Google Stadia pla...

Hamster have pulled out an instantly recognisable name for this week's retro release - even if it isn't quite the arcade original - as VS. Gradius joins their Arcade Archive lineup on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.VS. Gradius is the Nintendo lice...

M2 continues on its quest to re-release a bevy of awesome Cave shmups on modern platforms. The publisher recently dropped a new trailer for its next planned released, ESP Ra.De. Psi, coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan this holiday s...

Retro funsters Hamster have us blasting into innerspace for this week's Arcade Archives release, with the re-release of body horror shmup XMultiply, available now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released in Japanese arcades in 1989, just two yea...

Devolver Digital has bestowed North America a physical release on the Nintendo Switch edition of Enter the Gungeon, Dodge Roll's high-intensity arcade adventure that took the indie scene by storm back in 2016.For those of you who haven't ha...

For this week's retro release, Hamster has reached into its bag of '80s games and pulled out Victory Road - the sequel to classic scrolling shooter Ikari Warriors - now available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades in 1986, befor...

"So what's California Extreme?" I hear you asking. Simply put, it's a yearly convention where arcade cabinet and pinball collectors converge in San Jose to show off their favorite machines. Enthusiasts bring their perfectly maintained arcad...

Yesterday was a pretty chaotic, intense day for the Evo 2019 fighting game tournament. Saturday usually is. There's a helluva lot of brackets to complete, games to play, dawdling people to manage, attendees to sign-in and streams to run. Fo...

Day Two of Evo 2019 is about to get underway, as the world's best fighters traipse into the Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas for another day of wrist-snapping warfare. For your convenience, here is a quick post featuring a link to the schedule ...

Retro fun fans Hamster have dropped another classic title into their Arcade Archives range, making Konami's top-down racer Road Fighter available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released way, way back in 1984, Road Fighter is a high-speed drivin...

UFO Interactive has released, nay, unleashed the awesome power of Raiden V: Director's Cut onto Nintendo Switch. The high-intensity, updated edition of the shmup sequel can be picked up in physical or digital form right now.Raiden V: Direct...

[Update: Pre-orders are now open for The Star Wars Home Arcade Game.] Just days after revealing it was creating arcade cabinets for classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel games, Arcade1Up is back with one more huge announcemen...

In a very timely bit of marketing, retro-fans Hamster have released classic scrolling brawler The Ninja Warriors on Nintendo Switch, just one week before the launch of re-remake The Ninja Saviors, which hits Switch July 25.Released in arcad...