Limited Run Games is digging up the Fighting Force games for a collection

As part of the LRG3 stream,Limited Run Games revealedthat they’re pulling the twoFighting Forcegames together for a compilation. It will be arriving sometime in 2024. Do you rememberFighting Force? The first one was released in 1997. Reportedly, Core Design pitched it to Sega for the Saturn asStreets of Rage 3D. Sega passed on it. As a result, it didn’t even release for the Saturn, instead arriving on PS1 and N64....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 271 words · Richard Garcia

MAGFest = WIN is chiptuney goodness for your ears

12 tracks from 12 artists featured at this year’s event This past weekend in Maryland’s National Harbor, several thoudand like-minded individuals gathered for the 12th annual Music and Gaming Festival, AKAMAGFest. This was only my second year attending, but man it was a blast. Tons of games, events, panels, and of course, videogame music. This year, there was a huge chiptune representation at the festival, and to commemorate it,Chiptunes = WINreleased an exclusive compilation featuring the artists performing at MAGfest 12....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Ashley Lewis

Mushroom 11 is a very different game than we saw in 2014

And that’s a very good thing We haven’t gotten a look at Untame’sMushroom 11since we gave it a Best of PAX East award in 2014. It captured our hearts at the Boston show, with its approach to kinetic energy proving absolutely entrancing. Seeing it at GDC 2015,Mushroom11isn’t the same game we played 11 months ago. It’s come a long way. The PAX demo put a lot of emphasis on forcing your way from the right to the left as quickly as possible....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Terri Hicks

Namco’s two-on-two fighter Rise of Incarnates enters open beta

May just have to check that out Rise of Incarnatesis that Bandai Namco fighting game that’s supposed to be like theGundam Vs.series but sadly, unfortunately, without any Gundams. If Steven hadn’tpreviewed it, I likely wouldn’t be aware it exists, but I am, so I might as well tell you that the beta is here. And it’s anopenbeta, at that, which means you’re able to get right in. Would-be players can takeRise of Incarnatesfor a spin bydownloading the client here, though it’s worth noting a Steam account is needed....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Diana Austin

New Resistance maps hit PSN, the Chimera count your money and laugh

Insomniac has finally finally dropped the promised new maps forResistance: Fall of Man. This is great news for fans of the game, most of which still play the game religiously (insert joke about how they have nothing else to play here). “Map Pack 1” contains two maps: the chilly, snow drenched Westmoreland, England, and Camborne, England, which features both above ground and underground areas. Both maps will support all game types....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 178 words · Tiffany Anderson

Ninja Theory’s facial tech for Hellblade is pretty rad

Hopefully the game will be good Although I trust Ninja Theory in terms of gameplay as far as I can throw them, they know how to make a pretty piece of art, that’s for sure. This new developer video explains the process a bit forHellblade, mostly in terms of how the facial capture tech was implemented. The main character is actually modeled after Melina Juergens, a video editor on the team, and she shares her experiences in the video above, which involve some really cool low and high tech solutions....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Jessica Hernandez

Risk of Rain 2 tweaked its PC and console roadmap with a new 1.0 time frame

Version 1.0 is aiming for August on PC and fall on consoles Hopoo has been steadily checking milestones off theRisk of Rain 2roadmap, but there’s a change of plans for the 1.0 launch. Originally bound for spring 2020, the Steam Early Access version will now be updated to 1.0 inAugust 2020, and the console versions ofRisk of Rain 2areaiming for this fall. We’re in an age of delays, but as the developers explained on Steam, “the timing has not been altered because of COVID-19....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Stephanie Stevens

Sanitize: Dude jacks it on a KOF arcade machine in Tokyo

You might want to give the next Japanese arcade machine you play a wipe down first after reading this. My Tokyo-based friend and fighting game community figure,Scott Popular(he calls me Yankee Blue Jeans for some reason), blogged about a disturbing find at his local arcade in Shibuya. After eating lunch, he stopped by the famed Kaikan arcade to play a round or two when he found a guy…pleasuring himself on/over theKing of Fighters XIII Climaxmachine in the corner....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Lee Brown

SCUM is Devolver Digital’s biggest launch yet

Not so scummy after all Theoverwhelmingly realisticsurvival gameSCUMlaunched into early-access today and is already breaking records. Not content withbeing a streaming darling,SCUMhas turned out to be the biggest launch ever for publisher Devolver Digital. — Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital)July 19, 2025 Clarifying further,SCUMdeveloper Gamepires shared some player statistics. While exact sales figures aren’t present, 50,000 concurrent players are active on Steam (likely more, now). Using deductive reasoning, the game has sold at least 50,000 units....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Daniel Watkins

Square’s Super Mario RPG pitch: Mario with a sword on horseback

Do YOU know Super Ma-RPG? I regretfully have not playedSuper Mario RPG, but I have a feeling it wouldn’t be so revered as a classic had Nintendo followed Square’s initial pitch, which included Mario riding a horse, wearing a cape, and holding a sword. It’d just be Mario in aFinal Fantasygame, really, which is somehowlessweird than Mario playing basketball with Shaq and Kobe inNBA Street Vol 3on the Gamecube (my create-a-character was a 3-point specialist who looked like Johnny Cage)....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Peter Peck

Thank Halloween for this Shadows of the Damned trailer

Demon hunting in videogames is beginning to feel played out, but that’s not enough to stop me from eagerly awaiting Grasshoper Manufacture’s “punk rock”-style “psychological action thriller”Shadows of the Damned. This timely new trailer gives us a better glimpse at some of the creature designs and, more importantly, that badass transforming gun contraption. Even on just a cosmetic level, I really dig it.SotDunfortunately won’t be out until summer 2011, so for now, we’ll need to be patient....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 78 words · Carl Adams

The 2012 Steam summer sale has begun

It may have started later than anticipated, but this year’sSteam summer salehas commenced, so everyone be quiet and go scan the home page for savings like you’ve never scanned before. Daily deals will run today through Sunday, July 22 and this time we’ve also got “flash sales” to keep up with. These are discounts that are available for less time than even the dailies; the first batch includesDeus Ex: Human Revolution($7....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · John Russell

The best loadouts for Verdansk in Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone’smeta shifts with each update, offering new guns to pull out of your collection or old ones to pop back into your loadouts. Whether you’re firing at long range or dealing with enemies inside one of Verdansk’s many buildings up close, your loadout has to stay fresh with what the top attachments are for when it comes time to maximize your chances of surviving the battle royale....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Brian Pratt