Fighting
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Review (PS5)
What in the bloody hell do you think you’re doing, Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco? You can’t just go into a fighting genre, change up how they work, ...[Read More]
Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns (PS5) Review
Mortal Kombat 1’s first major expansion, Khaos Reign, is by no means a terrible expansion. Overpriced? Maybe. Possibly. I could be convinced that payi...[Read More]
SNK vs. Capcom – SvC Chaos Review (PS5)
My fighting game experience stretches back to the first Street Fighter game with punching pads for buttons. Outside of a badly designed cabinet that m...[Read More]
Duelists of Eden Review (PC)
Much of why I, among many other players, enjoyed the Mega Man Battle Network Series is because of how it flipped the script of the entire Mega Man ser...[Read More]
Tekken 8 Review (PS5)
Back in 2007, I briefly peaked in the top 100 Tekken 5 players in North America. I was rank 96, to be exact. I start this review off not to brag (okay...[Read More]
Mortal Kombat 1 Review (PS5)
Netherrealm Studios (NRS) has turned its Mortal Kombat franchise into Chicago’s leading gaming export. What was once an arcade game prominently featur...[Read More]
Yomi 2 (Chumps Preview)
Chumps Preview is a special kind of post where we unofficially preview games in Early Access, Beta, or are otherwise “unfinished.” This kind of previe...[Read More]
Crash Team Rumble Review
Sometimes when you take a popular series and turn it into something wholly other, it works out. Look at Paper Mario. Nintendo took a platforming chara...[Read More]
Street Fighter 6
Crouching in the corner of the Amazon River Basin, Blanka furiously swiped at the oncoming threat. Whatever humanoid this was–be it Guile, Ken, ...[Read More]
God of Rock (PS5)
Experimental titles deserve the attention of players because of how they push boundaries and expectations involving how gameplay should be experienced...[Read More]
Wild Hearts Preview
A week or so ago, we were allowed to start early on EA Original and KOEI TECMO’s Wild Hearts. The game is a bigger version of Monster Hunter with a pu...[Read More]
Century: Age of Ashes Review
It has been a long time since I played a game featuring a dragon that I rode around on laying down death and destruction for hours. I think the last g...[Read More]