Street Fighter 6: how Capcom aims to reinvent the fighting game after 35 years | Games

Get your kicks … Juri gives what for in Street Fighter 6

If there’s one name synonymous with fighting games, it’s Street Fighter. Dominating arcades in the late 80s and 90s and spawning the living room-conquering Super Nintendo classic Street Fighter II, Capcom’s beat ’em up became […]

17 What-The-Heck Moments In The History Of The ‘Final Fantasy’ Games

17 What-The-Heck Moments In The History Of The 'Final Fantasy' Games

3 Final Fantasy XV was even worse Square Enix What we ended up playing as Final Fantasy XV began life as two different games Square Enix had the beautiful idea of cobbling together. The end […]

Prey, Uncharted on Netflix, and every other new movie to watch at home

Naru (Amber Midthunder) hiding behind a tree as the Predator kneels down to observe her tracks in Prey.

After a light few weeks in new movie releases, this week is perhaps the busiest of the year so far. The new Predator movie, Prey, drops on Hulu (and it’s really good!), three big animated […]

SHIN ULTRAMAN Is a Fantastic Riff on Kaiju-Bashing (Fantasia Fest Review)

People took up all sorts of new hobbies and passions during the pandemic. We had to do something to quiet the existential dread on all sides. For me, I started inhaling Japan’s long-running Ultraman series […]

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Trailer, cast, and more

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Elrond kneels

This year, Amazon is taking a big swing. Come this fall, they’ll officially drop their blockbuster new series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. That subtitle is revealing, of course, but all […]

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero review: A nostalgic tribute to anime’s best dad

Gohan faces off against a new villain — literally, with their foreheads pressed against each other —in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

Originally set to be released in Japan in April, the second Dragon Ball Super movie, subtitled Super Hero, was delayed until June 11 after Toei Animation became the target of a ransomware attack. But if […]

Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much | Games

This week we recommend the knockout Capcom Fighting Collection.

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