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Arcana Heart Review: Fatal Fists Of Female Fury

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?

Style versus substance, red versus blue...

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1:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Mike Fahey
13,162 views, 68 comments

Latest by eastx: @Gremory: The US game isn't quite out yet, so I doubt anybody can tell you that. more »

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Fist of the North Star Fighter

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.

The game includes 10 characters, a pretty bitchin soundtrack and some amazing graphics, all packed into a flash game you can play on your keyboard. The controls are a bit awkward because they force you to move with the arrow keys and attack with the number pad, but I got used to it pretty quickly.

Hokuto No Ken

1:00 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Brian Crecente
5,256 views, 60 comments

Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street Fighter Art Book!
[blog.capcom.com] I was looking at Capcom's blog and noticed that Capcom and UDON were holding a contest to add fan art to UDON's new Street Fighter art book.  I remembered Kotaku showing some interesting in the art books earlier and thought it was pretty nifty.

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Soulcalibur IV Features Tasteful Greek Cleavage

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.

Games Radar has a new batch of screens of Soulcalibur IV, which I don't remember looking quite this good before. They feature a fantastic look at both Cassandra and Mitsurugi, the latter of whom Cassandra's modest rack doesn't seem to be lost on.

Soul Calibur IV [Games Radar]

6:20 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Michael McWhertor
7,722 views, 85 comments

Latest by the_Sisko: @Gundam_Halo: And you sound like an ass if you're willing to insult someone's partner over having a different moral code than your own. @filterpunk: How many of the male characters have barely concealed bulging packages? It's not just that they're unrealistic, more »

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How Ninja Clash On The Wii

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.

9:40 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,295 views, 34 comments

Latest by Bearskopff: I just got that Moon Landing trophy. What a fucking nightmare!!! Your best bet is to go for the middle chimney stack on the right of the level and land inside it. Loadsa air for you!!! Hope it helps :) more »

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King of Fighters XII Confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360

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.

6:00 AM on Sun Sep 23 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
25,332 views, 45 comments

Latest by belthegor: Wow, way to misinterpret, kotaku! Now we all know that it's actually a 2D fighter with 3D effects, not the other way around! more »

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Bleach: Shattered Blade Gameplay

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.

2:40 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Mike Fahey
8,824 views, 69 comments

Latest by KM91: Looks like a rent for me. I like a good fighter once in a while. more »

ubisoft

Ubisoft Bringing Senko no Ronde For 360 Over?

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 »

4:20 PM on Fri Feb 2 2007
By Michael McWhertor
1,470 views, 29 comments

legend of the dragon

Legend of the Dragon Announced for Wii

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 »

1:00 PM on Wed Jan 3 2007
By Brian Crecente
889 views, 18 comments

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60 Tattoo Assassins... Err, Fatalities

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 »

7:30 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Michael McWhertor
2,067 views, 20 comments

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New Gorgeous Virtua Fighter 5 Screens

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 »

5:20 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Michael McWhertor
690 views, 26 comments

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"Jay-Z Doesn't Do Fighting Games"

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 »

7:22 AM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
775 views, 19 comments

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God Hand's Amazing Japanese Commercial

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

1:40 PM on Mon Aug 28 2006
By kotaku.com
289 views, 11 comments

only in japan

Senko No Ronde: 10 Minutes Of Hot Shmupping

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 »

1:35 PM on Sat Aug 26 2006
By Michael McWhertor
2,388 views, 8 comments

xbox 360

Senko No Ronde For Xbox 360 Site Love

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 »

9:15 PM on Sat Jun 24 2006
By Michael McWhertor
930 views, 8 comments

Latest by Mr Butterscotch: I can't really tell what's happening there but robots are always... very good! more »

cell phone gaming

Who's Next? Nokia, I Guess

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 »

8:22 PM on Fri May 19 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
226 views, 9 comments

Latest by Robert Summa: I actually took video of that video in action at the NGage party. Here it is on the phone that will launch next year, I believe: http://www.e3byjp.com/MOV00937.MPG more »

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Nokia's One: Mobile Phones Now Have Decent Graphics

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 »

12:40 PM on Fri May 19 2006
By brownlee
161 views, 3 comments

Latest by Altima: Interesting. I wonder if thats running on that Radeon for mobile devices. more »

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E306: Dork Fight! With Video!

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 »

7:05 PM on Thu May 11 2006
By kotaku.com
102 views, 3 comments

Latest by jV: I once played the motion-sensor version of Tekken at an arcade while in a drunken state when, strangely enough, they didn't serve liquor at the arcade. Anyway, I lost to a female friend. She was a five-footer, and the game registered more »