SNK will be getting the second season of its successful fighting title Samurai Shodown underway next week, launching the first DLC character of its second season pass, the spiritual Mina Majikina.Making her debut in 2003's Samurai Shodown V...

We've got a double-dipper in today's contest: Win either Marooners or Crash Drive 2 for Switch! What's better than a contest featuring a free game? A contest featuring two free games! Duh. We've outdone ourselves on this one -- we're giving...

Boy howdy, we've come a very, very long way since that infamously fantastical Rainbow Six Siege demo was first previewed at E3 2014. Since then, Ubisoft's tactical shooter has certainly prospered, as a fairly blah launch has since evolved i...

Among the Rainbow Six Siege community, there is perhaps no operator more quirkily beloved than Alexsander Senaviev - better known to the Siege faithful as Lord Tachanka. Having been present in Siege since launch, the Russian Spetsnaz operat...

Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege is about to embark on its fifth year of operation in 2020, bringing with it new mechanics, modes, quality-of-life tweaks, and new door-smashing, head-popping operators. This week, at the Six Invi...

In a sudden bit of news, Japanese game studio Examu - best known for the niche-but-great anime fighter Arcana Heart - has announced that it will be suspending all of its business operations at the end of February.Examu - formerly Yuki Enter...

Respawn's super-popular battle royale title Apex Legends is feeling the luuuurve of the Valentine's season, and will - for a brief time - be offering players the opportunity to tag up with that special someone on their next chaotic run thro...

We're just a few days away from the biggest weekend in the Rainbow Six Siege calendar, as The Six Invitational grand finals will take place in Canada on February 14. Not only will fans get to see some amazing Siege players compete for the p...

Publisher Cygames released its luscious-looking Granblue: Fantasy Versus in Japan this week, and the spin-off fighter has had a ring-rocking start, having sold over 150,000 copies in its first two days of release. This number beats out the ...

It's February and love is in the air... or so I'm told. In keeping with the spirit of the season, Ubisoft's free-to-play smash-'em-up Brawlhalla has received some new and returning content to help transform its Legends from fighters into lo...

A new tweet from the official Call of Duty Twitter appears to be teasing the return of one of the blockbuster franchise's best-remembered characters: Ghost. The short teaser video takes the form of a personnel database, and has (presumably)...

The EVO Championship Series will return to Las Vegas this summer, and the team has finally announced the nine titles that will take to the main stage for the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, and a highlight of the competitive g...

Capcom is giving players the chance to check out the fully-updated edition of its flagship fighting game Street Fighter V over the next few days. Until February 9, both PS4 and PC users can run around in Championship Edition for free, takin...

Mortal Kombat 11 fans waiting on footage of DLC kharacter Spawn unfortunately have a bit of a wait ahead of them. Developer NetherRealm Studios has officially announced that it will not be debuting The Dark Avenger's gameplay until March's ...

We've got a giveaway going so you can try out Disintegration in its special closed beta! Hey, remember when Disintegration was revealed and everyone wanted to play it because it looked really cool? Well, now you can do just that! They're ru...

During this past weekend's EVO Japan festivities, it was announced by Tekken 7 producer Michael Murray that a free update is headed to the 3D fighter this week, that will apply several balance changes to the King of Iron Fist Tournament, al...

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has quashed recent rumours that Street Fighter V is coming to Nintendo Switch in the near-future, following a seemingly erroneous tweet posted by retailer Electronics Boutique this past weekend.EB Canad...

It's been a good weekend for Samurai Shodown fans. First we got the trailer for lead character Haoahmaru's guest appearance in Soulcalibur VI, and now we get to see two more DLC characters heading to Samurai Shodown itself, arriving this ye...

As part of the ongoing EVO Japan 2020 fighting game tournament, Bandai Namco has streamed a brand new trailer for its swords and sorcery fighter Soulcalibur VI, giving us a good look at its next DLC character, Haohmaru, who will be taking t...

In a very surprising bit of news, a new update has seen a netcode overhaul applied to the most recent re-release of one of the greatest fighting games of all time: SNK's Garou: Mark of the Wolves.The patch was developed by Code Mystics - wh...

Dead or Alive 6 continues to push towards its dubious goal of becoming the most expensive fighting game of all time, as today sees the launch of a fourth season pass - this one costing $89.99 - and bringing with it 50 more costumes and othe...

At the Frosty Faustings XII tournament, which took place in Chicago this past weekend, Arc System Works dropped a brand new trailer for the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive, giving us our first decent look at the return of one of the weirdest ch...

Infinity Ward has announced that season one of military shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been extended by two weeks, and will now end on February 11, as opposed to the previously scheduled January 28.The extra fortnight will give pl...

In today's contest, we're giving away copies of wacky and weird multiplayer game Toasterball! You guys know how much I love weird stuff. I don't have to keep telling you -- but you can bet your sweet ass I won't stop. Today's prey is a nice...

nWay Games, in partnership with Lionsgate and Hasbro, has announced the formation of a "pro-league" of sorts for tag-fighting title Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. The new league will offer BftG's best players the opportunity to fight i...