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Godzilla Unleashed on the Wii
How’s this for the cheesiest commercial ever? From what I can gather, Godzilla Unleashed is basically a button-mashing bonanza involving some of your favorite Godzilla characters. It’ll be available for a variety of systems, but the Wii rendition looks to be the most physically involving. Flail your arms around like an idiot and pretend to […]
Video: Soul Calibur Legends
I know. Soul Calibur Legends technically isn’t a fighting game, but neither is staring at Cassandra’s boobs. Namco Bandai is expanding the Soul Calibur series beyond the usual one-on-one fighting game genre with Soul Calibur Legends, destined for the Nintendo Wii.
Strangely, the trailer above lacks sound, but the one below will satisfy your aural […]
Retro Gaming: Street Fighter II Glitches Video
Everyone knows just how awesome Street Fighter II is and that’s why Street Fighter: The Later Years is so popular and why everyone can’t wait for Street Fighter IV.
Part of what made Street Fighter II so great — and old-school video games in general — was that it was filled will all sorts of glitches […]
Retro Gaming: Primal Rage
There have been some pretty great fighting games, especially in the 90s when everyone was trying to clone the success of Street Fighter II and all of its incarnations. After Mortal Kombat opened the floodgates to ridiculously bloody and gory violence, Atari stepped up with a primordial fighter of their own, known as Primal Rage.
I […]
Retro Gaming: World Heroes
After Street Fighter II hit arcades in 1991 and everyone realized just how great fighting games were, every other company started developing all sorts of Street Fighter clones. They’ll probably never own up to it, but there’s no denying the similarities between the Street Fighter universe and these games. One of the lesser known variants […]
Street Fighter: The Later Years - Part 5
And so the Street Fighter: The Later Years saga continues. This time, we find a disgruntled Guile, an impotent Ken, and a Blanka that can’t wait to go watch the Transformers. If you missed the first four parts — where the hell have you been?!?! — you can find them all at collegehumor.com.
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core for Nintendo Wii
IGN reviews Guilty Gear XX Accent Core for the Nintendo Wii, finding that the game plays and looks much the same way as other Guilty Gear XX fighting games — ridiculously fast-paced and stylized — but the Wii controls make this a “much worse game.” They highly recommend that you use a Classic Controller to […]
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Gameplay Video… with Sonic!
This could be the moment you’ve all been waiting for. As we still anxiously anticipate the arrival of Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Nintendo Wii, here is an actual gameplay video of the awesome fighting game in action. While it’s nice to see Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Samus Aran (from Metroid) […]
Street Fighter IV Officially Announced
Street Fighter IV. Official trailer. I think I just soiled myself.
What better way to kick off the launch of this fighting games blog than with the official announcement from Capcom of Street Fighter IV. What you see above is the stylized trailer shown at Gamer’s Day in London, giving us a glimpse into what […]
