Riot Games, the company behind League of Legends for gaming PC, has confirmed that they are currently developing a new fighting game. The news came from the co-founder of the Evolution Championship Series, Cannon, who also happens to be a current employee of Riot Games after their acquisition of Radiant Entertainment. Riot then confirmed Cannon’s…
Dead or Alive 6 Team Ninja Fighting games haven’t evolved much over the last few decades. Some of the 90’s most promising games, such as the Bushido Blade and Tobal series—which offered totally unique fighting mechanics—fell by the wayside long ago. Meanwhile, soon to be stalwarts of the fighting game industry, namely Street Fighter and…
Jump Force Bandai Namco I used to be a huge fighting game fan back in the day. Back in the hallowed days of yore when physical arcades were still relatively popular, and I’d meet up with some friends after making a quick trip to the change machine in order to magically transform dollars into handfuls…
Tekken 7 Season 2 Pass Bandai Namco Ah, the glories of fighting games. I remember going down to my local arcade and plunking quarters into many a fighting game when I was a kid. I played everything from weapon-based fighters such as SoulCalibur and Samurai Spirits, to brawlers such as Street Fighter, The Art of…
Northgard Shiro Games It’s sort of sad that the classic real-time strategy games of yore have pretty much disappeared. Tween-bait MOBAS and E-Sports games have pretty much taken over and see no sign of letting up, at least anytime soon. I used to play Age of Empires 2 (and it’s expansion Age of Kings) until…
For Honor Ubisoft I have to admit that I used to be a big fighting game fan. I remember sauntering into my local city arcade with a pocket full of dollar bills, transforming them into handfuls of quarters (or tokens for certain arcades), and then heading to the nearest fighting game cabinet of choice. I’ve…
Injustice 2 NetherRealm Studios/WB Games Marvel has long dominated the movie industry, with both representations of solo characters such as The Punisher and Spiderman, or super-teams such as the X-Men and most recently, The Avengers. Meanwhile, the DC comics universe has faltered at the box office with disastrous one-offs of heroes such as Green Lantern,…
Absolver Sloclap/Devolver Digital I’ve been a longtime lover of fighting games, ever since I first played Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and its sequels back in the early to mid-90’s. I also got into my first 3D fighting series, Tekken, around that same period. Although both SF and Tekken were two of my favorite…
Tekken 7 Bandai Namco Entertainment Okay, I’ll just come right out and admit it—I’ve had a long and heated romance with fighting games throughout my whole life. Ever since I first started playing Street Fighter 2 back in 1991 I was hooked. But even though I loved SF 2 and its little pixilated 2D sprites,…
Mortal Kombat XL Netherrealm Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive First off, I just have to say that back in the day when people still used to pump quarters into video game consoles in the old, now defunct video game arcades, more often than not, I’d chose to deposit mine into Street Fighter games. The more anime-styled aesthetics…