Jeffrey L. Wilson confesses his love for the admittedly sucktacular China Warrior.

Double Dragon iPhone updates the classic two-player brawler. Verdict? It’s an essential game for mobile bea ‘em up fans, and a 2D-X Excellence Award winner.

Let’s get ready to rumble.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a go, Final Fantasy Agito renamed Final Fantasy Type Zero, first Kingdom Hearts 3D details, and more!

Developer Twisted Pixel rocked the gaming world with two original IPs that garned much critical accliam (The Maw, Splosion Man), but the team isn’t resting easy on its successes. Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley, a side scrolling beat ‘em up that packs plenty of hand to face action (as well as double-gun blasting) [...]

Dungeon Fighter Online (2D-X‘ favorite beat ‘em up of 2009) is receiving a big league content update in “Threshold of Power,” which will be available tomorrow January 27. This major addition ups the level cap to Level 50, and offers players hundreds of new items, dozens of new quests, several new skills for each character [...]

There aren’t that many 2D, sprite-based beat ‘em ups released nowadays, but Nexon America proved that the genre is still a terrifically viable one with Dungeon Fighter Online. A mash up of the traditional fist-to-face brawler with MMO and fantasy elements, Dungeon Fighter Online allows you to select one of five character archetypes (Gunner, Priest, [...]

Video Games | The King of Fighters Online | Debut Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii I’ve been harping on the need for a company to take the Beat ‘Em Up genre by the hand and modernize it for quite some time now, so when the further details of King of Fighters [...]