Fighting games by their very nature are designed to be played multiple times, from their origins in arcade cabinets to modern day console and PC-based fighting tournaments. It takes time to fully ...

Fighting games have always drawn me in one way or another. Sometimes it’s the characters, other times it’s an intuitive combat system or flashy combos. Whatever the reason, I tend to at least sample ...

All of the franchises that tend to dominate the genre, at least in terms of mass appeal and sales, forwent brand new releases in 2025, which left the field truly wide open for smaller series to come ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

Fighting games provide some of the very best and heated competitive gaming experiences out there, whether it’s duking it out with friends locally or mixing it up in an online environment with players ...

Virtua Fighter 5 has been a gift that kept on giving since 2006. Sega just keeps making new versions of it. However, it isn’t for lack of reason. Virtua Fighter 5 has been one of the most technical ...

Fighting games have been around for a long time, but the ’90s was the decade when the genre truly came into its own. It featured some of the all-time best games in the genre, including arguably what ...

2026 may be the height of the fighting game genre, but there is an important aspect that its biggest releases are missing.

Released 25 years ago, and regarded by many as one of the greatest fighting games of all time, Street Fighter 2 put the genre on the map in a big way. In a time where the fighting genre was relatively ...

There are dozens of Naruto games, and the very best ones are among the greatest anime releases of all time.

Blake Morse is a contributor that has been working in the video game industry for over 18 years as a journalist, content creator, and has helped to publish and promote a number of indie games. In that ...