Celebrate the Neo Geo’s birthday with these re-releases.
Everything you need to know about SNK Playmore’s King of Fighters XIII.
Unless you’re especially enamored with the Samuari Shodown brand, Namco’ Soul Calibur series is still the king of the weapon-based fighter hill.
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s King of Fighters XIII. As a longtime fan of SNK Playmore various 2D properties, the gaming community’s eye-roll reaction to the recent King of Fighters XIII announcement left me saddened. [...]
If you’re a fan of the Metal Slug series, then you know what it’s like to have all the odds stacked up against you. Whether it’s dodging zombie vomit or getting stuck in absurd crossfires, running with guns blazing into the impossible has never lost its appeal… until now. Metal Slug XX for the PSP [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: King of Fighters XII is one of the most misunderstood video games of 2009. Sure the roster and movesets were sacrificed to the grand god of high-resolution 2D sprites, but SNK Playmore built a remarkably fun fighting engine that made up for some of the game’s [...]
Atlus doesn’t know when to quit. Not satisfied spoiling us with hardcore ridiculousness like Demon’s Souls and tons upon tons of Shin Megami Tensei games, they deem Feb. 23 the time to bestow Metal Slug XX for PSP upon us. A port of Metal Slug 7 for DS, Metal Slug XX (pronounced “double-ex”) heralds the [...]
Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s your favorite Metal Slug game. Metal Slug XX, the upgraded multi-player version of the underrated Metal Slug 7, is headed to the Japanese XBLA sometime next year as SNK Playmore’s [...]
If there’s a lesson learned from my completion of the Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Super Mario Bros. live-action flicks, it’s that a) I can tolerate the trashiest films ever made and b) I should never hold hope that a fighter will translate into a decent, watchable flick. So when I got word that SNK [...]
Garou: Mark of the Wolves is heavily inspired by Street Fighter III, but it represents one of SNK’s finest 2D fighting game achievements.
