2004 is often the year I see the AAA gaming scene making its foothold and changing gaming from a nerdy hobby to mainstream media empire. Huge sequels everywhere, more in-your-face marketing than gamers could handle, $50 buy-ins every week, Halo 2, Metroid Prime 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The gaming world underwent some serious changes that year, and quirky releases that...
Cooler, the brother of Frieza, is coming to the ultra-popular fighting game Dragon Ball FighterZ on Sept. 28, and in celebration of the release date announcement, Bandai Namco has a new gameplay trailer showing Cooler going head-to-head against your’s and my number one champion, Goku. For those who don’t follow Dragon Ball canon or even the non-canon stuff, Cooler appears...
Fighting games have never been more popular thanks to the emergence of eSports and streaming services. Once a hobby reserved for a handful of friends at the local arcade, competitions of the highest level now reach millions of viewers with the click of a button. And while this grand revival occurs smack in the prime of Fortnite’s dominance, the fighting genre has been missing one of...
Bandai Namco and Project Aces are finally returning to their seminal aerial combat series Ace Combat next year with the highly anticipated release of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on Jan. 18. More than just a flight game, Ace Combat has long been beloved by fans for its storytelling and unique setting “Strangereal,” an alternate timeline of our own world with its own geography and...
After a hiatus and dabble in free-to-play, the legendary fighting franchise SoulCalibur is digging back to its roots with SoulCalibur VI and recruiting many of its most iconic fighters to aid in the comeback. This weekend at EVO 2018, Bandai Namco announced that two veterans of the series will be returning to the upcoming fighting game: the series’ longtime villain Asteroth and… gulp…...
There is a new reigning champion on Twitch, and it comes in the form of Dragon Ball FighterZ. The popular fighting game has gathered so much momentum and achieved such positive word of mouth that it now sits proudly as the most watched game in the history of the EVO fighting game tournament on Twitch after its recent showing at EVO 2018. Usually, Street Fighter secures the best ratings...
Bandai Namco has secured some weird guest characters over the years. The Soulcalibur series has played host to Spawn, Link from The Legend of Zelda, Kratos, KOS-MOS, Ezio from the good Assassin's Creed games, and even Yoda and Dath Vader! Tekken has been a bit more relaxed, generally turning to the likes of rival fighting games for guest fighters, like Akuma from the Street Fighter...
When it comes to Dragon Ball Z, I’m a huge fan of the first two story archs. Before Androids, before Gods, before stupid dancing, merged forms, and most importantly, before Super Saiyans, all had a story where a group of characters had a goal of saving their planet from invading aliens, and then taking their fight to an intergalactic tyrant while looking for Dragon Balls to revive their...
Dragon Ball FighterZ is continuing its tear through the fighting game world with a new release on the Switch this fall. Bandai Namco confirmed that Nintendo’s platform will be getting its own release of the game on Sept. 28, and those who pre-order will be receiving a nice present to boot. The free game in question is an old and obscure fighting game called Dragon Ball Z: Super Budoten...
You all know me as a guy who loves his nostalgia. The NES Classic Edition, the SNES Classic Edition, an old black and white Game Boy, it doesn’t get any better for me than fun video games from the late 80s to the late 90s. And yet, even I have a little trouble wrapping my brain around this latest grab for your sentimentality dollars. Tamagotchi, the Japanese pet-simulator that flooded...