It may be its technical proficiency as a competitive fighter for which its hardcore fans love the Street Fighter series, but it’s not necessarily that which made it popular in the first place. A large part of Street Fighter’s suc…
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We’re playing as Raiden, and we’ve just grabbed a man by the crotch and electrocuted him. But that’s not enough this is Mortal Kombat so we broke his jaw by swinging our heel into it. The X-Ray cam zoomed up on this, too, and we …
Graphic Violence Is pretty much the twisted, shattered backbone of the Mortal Kombat franchise, but something has changed. Now, in an era where visuals are only getting more lifelike by the day and games are growing ever more com…
This isn’t your standard, bread-and-butter RPG. No, this is much better. This is slicker and cooler and more colourful and more intense. This is about being a kid, rebelling against modernity’s dreary routines. This is about subv…
“Fighting games are dying.” It’s said time and again. With dwindling sales and a limited appeal compared to the triple-A games of other more popular genres, it can be easy to believe that fighting games’ health bar is somewhat di…
We’ll be sure to toe the line of decency with this one, but there are obviously varying definitions of the word ‘hardcore’. Be it horror movies, exercise, gaming or the other thing you’re thinking of, the term means different thi…
At the highest levels of play, fighting game players obsess over character tier lists. These endlessly debated leaderboards are defined not simply by a character’s power, but how they fare against the rest of the cast in a series…
Fighting-game singleplayer modes have a lot to answer for. In Street Fighters of yore, any human playing Ken who follows one missed dragon punch with another to catch your intended punishment before it can hit him is only doing i…
Did you know assuming you know something about the history of Mortal Kombat and its increasingly convoluted back-story that Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage had a thing for each other? Well, apparently they did, and the resulting offs…
Stepping into NetherRealm Studios for the first time, we weren’t sure what to expect from the office that the notoriously violent Mortal Kombat series calls home. water coolers that dispense blood? interns staggering around with …
Capcom’s UK PR team’s out-of-office was on. Officially, it was for the Christmas party, but you’d have forgiven the staff for seeing what had just happened, throwing their hands in the air, and decamping to the pub. A massive ann…
Normally, when we say that a set of screenshots isn’t a fair representation of a game, we mean it as a negative. Here, it’s the highest of praise. Believe it or not, this is a 3D game you’re looking at, the characters not hand-dr…
There’s always a risk that with the arrival of a new Mortal Kombat, the series will just descend further into a grisly parade of even more obscene violence and ridiculous fatalities. But NetherRealm Studios has been showing great…
While everyone’s busy clamouring over the upcoming PS4 exclusive powerhouses like Uncharted 4, The Order: 1886 and No Man’s Sky, few other exclusives get a look-in. There’s another exclusive that’s been busy putting out trailers,…
It’s more than just a line. It’s something that every gamer can identify. It's synonymous with a franchise that has helped change fighting games into the shape we know today. It’s so iconic, that whenever we hear it we know e…
