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Skullgirls Picked Just the Right Day to Reveal the Deadly Nurse Valentine

Mike Fahey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:45:00 EST

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You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today's reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain. More »

Virtua Fighter 5 Returns Next Summer as the Final Showdown

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:47:43 EDT

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Sega wants in on the Street Fighter IV-led fighting game resurgence. Their entrant? A new version of 2006's Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, scheduled for a downloadable release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next summer. More »

Street Fighter X Tekken Shows Its Character in Ten More Screens

Owen Good — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:30:00 EDT

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As noted earlier, Street Fighter veteran Dhalsim has been confirmed for Street Fighter X Tekken alongside Poison, and Yoshimitsu and Steve Fox from Tekken. Capcom today released these ten new screens showing them in action. Scarf 'em up! There is undoubtedly more to come. More »

Fight Night Champion Goes Mano A Mano With Baseball?

Owen Good — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:30:00 EST

The debut trailer for Fight Night Champion, published an hour ago on IGN, lists March 1 as the game's release date. If that's the case, it will take on MLB 2K11 and MLB The Show 11. More »

Street Fighter 3DS Will Be a “Perfect Port” of The Console Game

Brian Crecente — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono says that when the spectacularly popular Street Fighter IV comes to Nintendo's 3DS portable it will be a "perfect port" of the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. More »

Sixteen Fighters Make Up EA Sports MMA's Heavyweight Division

Owen Good — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Madden launch week is probably not the best time to drop pre-release hype for your sports game, unless you're EA Sports MMA. Those guys will take on anyone, anywhere, anytime. More »

EVO Kicks Off Today

Brian Crecente — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:49:51 EDT

The EVO Championships, one of the largest video game fighter tournaments in the world, starts at 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Watch it here. Read about it here. [Thanks mintycrys will Vanquish] More »

Eight More Fighters Added to EA Sports MMA

Owen Good — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:20:00 EDT

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Andre Arlovski, Lyle Beerbohm, Roger Gracie, Alistair Overeem, Kevin Randleman, Vitor Ribeiro, Murilo "Ninja" Rua and Fabricio Werdum. Heard of those guys? Me either. But they're in the roster for EA Sports MMA - and a new batch of screens. More »

UFC Undisputed Demo Arrives April 29

Owen Good — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:20:00 EDT

Last week THQ mentioned early access to the UFC Undisputed 2010 demo but didn't mention a release date and was vague on the terms. Now we know it's Thursday, and anyone registering at the Undisputed community site gets a code. More »

EA Sports MMA Realistically Presents Bodily Fluids in Real Time

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:00:00 EDT

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In this batch of screens for EA Sports MMA we can see blood, sweat and spit (I think). Tears qualify as sweat in my book. Do they blow snot bubbles? Does anyone know if the fighters blow snot bubbles? More »

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Unveiling Soon?

Brian Crecente — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:20:00 EDT

Word of a new Marvel Vs. Capcom game could be heading our way in the coming months if rumors from website Team Spooky can be believed. More »

Playing The Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Credits

Brian Crecente — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST

Wii fighter Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom is packed with tons of inside jokes, including plenty I don't quite get. More »

This Week In Video Game Comics

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:40:58 EST

Lots of video game comics hit comics shops in the U.S. this week. That includes an adaptation of one of the least-discussed Zelda games ever made: The Minish Cap. Plus, Sonic is back. Yes, Sonic comics! More »

Tekken 6 Review: The Lag of Iron Fist

Brian Crecente — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:40:00 EDT

One of the only fighting games I've ever bothered to try and deeply understand outside of Street Fighter is Tekken. There's something about the mechanics, and ability to button tap control each limb, that I love. More »

Watch Frank West Golf a Zombie in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

Owen Good — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:00:00 EDT

Frank West's 5-iron isn't just for beating the crap out of your foe in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. As Seth Killian demonstrates, it can also properly motivate the zombies he summons. Don't mess with Frank. He's covered par fours, you know. More »

Fate: Unlimited Codes Preview: Fight

Brian Crecente — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:20:57 EDT

Fate: Unlimited Codes, a 2D fighter based on an erotic Japanese "visual novel", seems to be packing some pretty solid fighting elements. And it should be: The team behind Tatsunoku Vs. Capcom made it. More »

Aksys Brings BlazBlue To America

Mike Fahey — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT

A bevy of BlazBlue screenshots accompany the announcement that Aksys game is bringing the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear to the states this summer. More »

Arcana Heart Review: Fatal Fists Of Female Fury

Mike Fahey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT

All-female 2D fighters are nothing new. Back in the days of the original PlayStation and the Sega Saturn, games like Asuka 120% and the Variable Geo series were a common sight in Japanese game stores, offering up hot girl-on-girl fighting action, but generally just that. The games lacked depth, relying on the gimmick of their fully female roster rather than crafting compelling gameplay. Now Atlus brings Examu's PlayStation 2 girl fighter Arcana Heart to North America, featuring 11 classic moe girl archetypes fighting to save the world from a power-hungry nun seeking to merge our realm with that of the elemental Arcana that fight by their side. The game is full of promising elements, but it all comes down to one thing—is Arcana Heart a mediocre game trying to get by on sex appeal alone, or a solid fighting game whose characters just happen to lack Y chromosomes? More »

Fist of the North Star Fighter

Brian Crecente — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:00:42 EDT

Back in the day I was a HUGE fan of Fist of the North Star. So when Julien emailed me to let me know that he had just finished his new fighting flash game, Hokuto No Ken, I was pretty psyched. More »

Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street...

Nirolak — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:16:06 EDT

Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street Fighter Art Book!

Soulcalibur IV Features Tasteful Greek Cleavage

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:20:32 EDT

The fourth edition of Ivy's breasts may be bordering on obscene, only further accentuated by her new, increasingly whorish outfit. Taki's no better in Soulcalibur IV, her tighter than skin tight ninja outfit leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination, making her high kicks the stuff of Hustler magazine spreads. Thankfully—or regrettably, depending on your point of view—the character designers at Namco Bandai exercised a tad more restraint when outfitting Cassandra for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighter. She looks to be the female fighter you'll be picking when Mom comes over. More »

How Ninja Clash On The Wii

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:40:48 EDT

Love or hate the anime, Naruto's Clash of the Ninja series of games are some of the best 3D fighting games I've ever played. Now the series is being refitted for a Wii release, and this video shows you exactly how you'll be kicking faux ninja ass using the Wiimote and nunchuck. It's good to see the disembodied hand method to demonstrate Wii controls return. I have missed them so. Hopefully the game will let you use the GC controller as well, because so far fighters and Wii controls have been kinda spotty. More »

King of Fighters XII Confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360

Brian Ashcraft — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:00:16 EDT

Back in 2006, SNK's Overseas Marketing Manager Yoshihito Koyama told me that the Osaka-based developer thought a "good time" to release a PS3 game was 2009-10. SNK confirmed that King of Fighters XII would be hitting North America on the PLAYSTATION 3 and the Xbox 360 in early 2009. The last non-spinoff entry in the series was KOF XI in 2005, and the upcoming game is a 3D fighter that is shaded to look 2D. Koyama described it as "3D mixed with 2D." Before that, the title will be rolled in its Japanese arcade version in late 2008. Looking forward to seeing how SNK combines this. More »

Bleach: Shattered Blade Gameplay

Mike Fahey — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:40:56 EDT

Here's a Games Convention gameplay clip of Bleach: Shattered Blade, the fighting game based on the insanely popular anime. The Wii title features 32 fighters, including original antagonist Arturo Plateado, created specially for the game by Sega and Bleach creator Tite Kubo. I kind of like the look of the game, and I'm a sucker for a fighter with tons of characters. The whole Wii dynamic throws things off for me though, so I am going to have to reserve any judgment until I've played it myself. Not like my opinion matters much in this situation. Thousands of Bleach fans will swarm game stores no matter what I say once the game launches in October. More »

Bleach Invades DS, Wii

Brian Crecente — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:00:54 EDT

SEGA has confirmed that games based on the anime series Bleach will be heading to the Nintendo Wii and DS. Bleach: Shattered Blade will be coming to the Wii and Bleach: The Blade of Fate will be heading to the DS. Both are expected to hit this fall in time for the beginning of the second season of the show on the Cartoon Network. More »

Ubisoft Bringing Senko no Ronde For 360 Over?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:20:09 EST

Released last summer in Japan for the Xbox 360 and summarily over-pimped by yours truly, G.rev's hybrid shmup-fighter hasn't shown up on any Western release lists. Until now. More »

Legend of the Dragon Announced for Wii

Brian Crecente — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:00:58 EST

Game Factory today confirmed that they are working on a 3D fighter for the Wii based on the JETIX cartoon Legend of the Dragon. More »

60 Tattoo Assassins... Err, Fatalities

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:30:03 EST

Ever heard of Tattoo Assassins? It's okay if you haven't. The game was a bust, an attempted cash-in by Data East Pinball to get a slice of the crowded 2-player fighting game market in the mid-90s. It featured digitized graphics a la Mortal Kombat, with a "fatality" count that made Midway's fighter pale in comparison. More »

New Gorgeous Virtua Fighter 5 Screens

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:20:26 EST

Sega gave us some new screens of their upcoming arcade to PlayStation 3 fighter Virtua Fighter 5 and damn does it look sexy! Especially that hunky Blaze! More »

"Jay-Z Doesn't Do Fighting Games"

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:22:45 EDT

Out of retirement and running Def Jam, rapper Jay-Z won't be appearing in EA's hip hop brawler Def Jam: I con. While Jay-Z's does make an appearance in NBA LIve as an unlockable character, he's just not keen on fighters. Says former Def Jam president Kevin Liles: More »

God Hand's Amazing Japanese Commercial

kotaku.com — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:40:32 EDT

Okay, it absolutely sucks the sound on this video is so bad. But any commercial this wonderfully surreal deserves a post, regardless. For the upcoming PS2 brawler, God Hand. Florian Eckhardt More »

Senko No Ronde: 10 Minutes Of Hot Shmupping

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:35:55 EDT

One of the disadvantages to being Weekend Editor, is that when something pops up during the weekday that I'm really psyched for, I have to wait until Saturday morning to gush about it. The other downer is that none of the other editors seem to give two squirts about Senko no Ronde Rev. X for the Xbox 360. Jerks! More »

Senko No Ronde For Xbox 360 Site Love

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:15:53 EDT

If you've been reading Kotaku weekends for the past four months, you might notice a dearth of Xbox 360 content. It's not that I'm biased against Microsoft, just apathetic. Frankly, I'm more often into games from Japan, a region in which the Xbox family has noticeably struggled (plus they still haven't sent that complimentary 360 to my house). So when something as wacky and, well, plainly Japanese like Senko no Ronde gets the Xbox 360 console treatment, I'm forced to start paying attention. More »

Who's Next? Nokia, I Guess

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 19 May 2006 22:22:46 EDT

It's no secret that the best thing about Nokia's empty, desolate N-Gage booth at E3 was that perfect for cutting through the crowds. The company is gung-ho about their upcoming cell phone fighter One—Who's Next? I didn't check out their stuff at E3 that much (see booth cutting comment above), but the images floating around online are impressive. Nokia says the game clip is real time, but is it really real time or just real time? —Brian Ashcraft More »

Nokia's One: Mobile Phones Now Have Decent Graphics

brownlee — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:40:20 EDT

Thanks to Ruben to pointing us towards this video of the upcoming Nokia fighting game One The video claim that this is real-time rendering on a mobile phone, and the designers are also promising the ability to customize characters with accessories and texture mappings... possibly microcontent. We're as excited as anyone else to see some great graphics finally come to mobile phones, but the issue with mobile games isn't graphics: it's absolutely terrible controls. Until a company can figure out how to get over that hump, we'd rather carry a DS Lite around for our portable gaming. - Florian Eckhardt More »

E306: Dork Fight! With Video!

kotaku.com — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:05:00 EDT

E3 featured two rival makers of motion sensitive controllers for fighting games. In a positioning faux pas unseen since someone decided to put Poland next to Germany, they were situated right beside each other, and each had an employee demonstrating their strap-on products. Sadly enough, they didn't actually pit them against each other, either in-game or just handing them crowbars and promising that the winner will be allowed to live. There's no reason we can't correct that, at least in our sick little fantasies. More »

Reach Out and Touch the Hand of God

kotaku.com — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:40:00 EDT

It seems that God Hand, the upcoming "god action fighter" from Clover that we just heard about a few days ago, is so far along its production schedule that it will be playable at E3. Hopefully that will answer some of our questions, like "God action fighter?" IGN has the news, along with other games hitting the E3 floor. More »

Gear Up For Guilty Gear XX Slash

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:22:25 EDT

To whip Japanese gamers into a fury, Sega did a promotion for the upcoming Guilty Gear XX Slash, complete with playable demos and joysticks. Over twenty players gathered for an impromptu tourney. The game is an arcade port and features two newish characters (Order-Sol and A.B.A.). The console game gets an interface facelift as well. Don't you just love that Sega does this little event, rolls out demos on crappy TVs and window dresses with girls in Sega windbreakers? But wait, that sign says the DS Lite is still sold out. Thunder stolen. More »

Fighting Upskirt Game

Brian Crecente — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:00:00 EST

What's better than hot girl-on-girl fighting action? Hot girl-on-girl fighting action that includes upskirts, of course. LineKill Spirits is a 3D fighter with a freaky, weird twist: The damage you inflict will auto-heal unless you take a picture of your opponents panties. Inverted Castle put it best: More »