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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Tekken is a mainstay of the Evo tournament series--and of the entire fighting game genre. But things haven't been entirely rosy at the King of Iron ...

Even with the difficulty spike, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is a remarkable 2D action game. For $30, it provides substance and fun, and Lizardcube escalates difficulty just enough to make finishing a ...

My first Evo was all the way back in 2003, when it was held at Cal Poly Pomona. It was a ragtag yet passionate operation where a bunch of weirdos crammed into one of the university's big halls to play ...

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Masaaki Hayasaka, producer on Dragon Quest 1+2 HD-2D Remake, tells us about how this version of the first game could have ...

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Hideo Kojima made a messianic decree during the Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia this week: the video game industry has undergone the third significant change in its existence, because now people can ...

As I watch a hungover puppet plunge a grim toilet, my brain tries to make sense of what I'm seeing. It's not the utter absurdity of a disheveled, post-divorce Elmo-like character trying to jam a day's ...

Silksong, Shinobi, and Ninja Gaiden are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 2025's bounty of 2D platformers.

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