Fighting Games

"You lost $40 million": Dev lost Mortal Kombat rights because he went on a family vacation

Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero and Kitana team up after figure skating duo's win to pull off a competition illegal move

"This is a Komplete FAILURE": Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is off to a rough start with massive input lag and netcode issues ruining fighting game fans' experiences online

Mortal Kombat co-creator says the movie sequel's opening has made him cry every single time he's watched it: "It punches you in the face"

Mortal Kombat 2 is as much about Kitana as it is about Johnny Cage: "They go in and out of each other throughout the movie"

Mortal Kombat 2 gets a big release date delay, but ends up in a promising spot

After 28 years as a legend among Mortal Kombat fans, "the holy grail of MK lost media" has been preserved and made playable for Legacy Kollection

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has a $150 Kollector's Edition with a delightfully stupid Goro statue, but I think the $80 Deluxe Edition might be even better for '90s arcade nostalgia

After 857 hours spent playing 8 RPGs this year, I'm finding solace from open world burnout in the most curious of genres

Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai says it would be "impossible" to grant every fan request

Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai confirms those food JPEGs heal more based on how many calories they contain

Now that Kirby Air Riders is out, everyone is making the same joke about Nintendo immediately asking Masahiro Sakurai to work on Super Smash Bros 6: "Alright. We let you make Air Riders. You know what comes next…"

After conquering YouTube, Kirby and Super Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai is now getting a 160-page manga about his life and art

If you play a pirated Super Smash Bros exactly 69 times on N64, Nintendo's "sneaky" anti-piracy measure will "lull the illegitimate user into a false sense of security" and trap you as Mario forever

A Super Smash Bros. Melee modder has finally added the most powerful Nintendo character of all: a cease and desist notice

One of the best Super Smash Bros. players of all time tried a new indie platform fighter and immediately got destroyed without landing a single hit: "What the f*** just happened!"

Massive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, and its new 15-minute trailer rivals Masahiro Sakurai's best work

"We must change our methods": Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai says game development has become "too time consuming and unsustainable"

Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco after 31 years: "I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close"

Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids

Tekken 8 game director owns up to Season 2 screwups: "We will continue to make steady, meaningful improvements one by one, and do our utmost to regain your trust"

As Tekken 8 emergency patch runs back controversial Season 2 changes, series producer Katsuhiro Harada says "I personally do not think this backlash is at all unjustified"

After preserving the AI ghost of a fan's late brother, Tekken 8 boss says it might be a glimpse of the future where you don't "need an opponent who is human that has the exact same skill level"

Despite fans begging for Tifa, Final Fantasy 16's Clive is "significantly more popular" than any other Tekken guest fighter

"I didn’t have a single ally": Tekken 4's negative reception put series boss Katsuhiro Harada under so much stress that he left Namco for a year

Tekken 8 boss gives broken Tifa stans hope after Clive got to join the fighter instead: "It's not like we're only limited to one character from Final Fantasy"

Final Fantasy 7 fans have been begging for Tifa to be added to Tekken 8, so they're taking the news of FF16 star Clive being added as well as you'd expect: "IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HER"