Rivals of Aether’s creator details his Smash Bros. inspirations
How about: Super Smash Bros. is a popular fighting series, so it’s lack of clones when compared to other successful games stands out. Most...
Street Fighter V shows how Capcom wants to make fighting games — and players — better
Eight years ago, I sat in a hotel room with Seth Killian, then the community manager at Capcom, where he had invited me to get an...
Street Fighter V round 2: Yoshinori Ono, Matt Dahlgren take on monetization
Street Fighter V is just around the corner, and it’s one of Capcom’s biggest, if not most important, releases of 2016. As the company’s...
Street Fighter V’s Yoshinori Ono has more energy than a Ryu fireball
The game industry is full of interesting real-life characters. Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono is one of them. The charismatic caretaker of the...
The overlooked games of 2015 — Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
This industry sometimes makes me feel like I am a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. Like I am just too mentally...
Esports reports shows the consumer habits of 15M competitive gaming viewers
Report tracks the consumer habits of the 15 million large esports audience
Street Fighter V gets an Arabic character
Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono has been teasing fans for the last few days with his usual style of showing only partial screenshots. This time, he was just showing small pieces of an image of a character doing tornado-like movements.
Yomi is a fun way to learn a fighting game through cards, but be ready to learn the hard way
People often describe fighting games as a combination of speed chess and poker (and other, more convoluted mashups). Take the intricate combos out of...
Pokkén Tournament is more Pokémon-like and skill-intensive than you’d expect
It seems like the most obvious thing in the world to make a fighting game spinoff of an role-playing game property that features monster...
A new Street Fighter V character? Let’s see who lurks at the end of the Ken trailer
Who is this mysterious fighter?