Thinking of old-school fighting games, the sprite-based fighters from Capcom and SNK, as found in the recent Capcom Fighting Collection 2, probably come to mind first, especially with the many ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

The biggest problem of the beta was the online system, one that I fear will carry over to the full release. Fighting games have become obsessed with forcing players to use online arcade lobbies during ...

The Green Bay Packers-Denver Broncos aren't rivals. But it has that kind of feeling during Sunday's Week 15 game. There's a lot of chippiness, jawing between players and dead-ball penalties. But that ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

It's not often that celebrity game developers step down from their posts, or personally survey how their games perform in international arcades, but Katsuhiro Harada has done both. After three decades ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Members of Toledo’s Jewish community gathered Monday night to celebrate the second night of Hanukkah, doing so with heavy hearts after a deadly terrorist attack during a holiday ...

The Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos had a high-stakes game at Empower Field at Mile High on Sunday. Both teams are two of the highest-ranked teams in the NFL for the 2025-26 season, which brought ...

A fight during the postgame handshake marred the SC Class 3A football championship game on Friday. Oceanside Collegiate defeated Belton-Honea Path, 28-7, at SC State’s Oliver Dawson Stadium. It was ...

Tekken took that idea and ran with it, refining the gameplay and focusing more on the bombastic potential of the franchise than its more grounded competition. The result was a sprawling multi-game ...

Even though platformers are seen as somewhat archaic, there are a lot of modern ones worth playing. This list features those, as well as some more classic examples of the genre.