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Update: River City Girls 2's release date is added. WayForward has dished out more info about its upcoming 2D beat-em-up River City Girls 2. First up, there's a bit more gameplay of the main characters Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, Riki, Marian (Double Dragon ex-damsel-now-badass), and Provie. You also get to know the villains of this entry: the crim...
Capcom and SNK are fighting game juggernauts then and now, so it only made sense for both of them to team up at one point to make a crossover fighting game between the two factions. That happened with 2000's Capcom VS SNK and 2001's Capcom VS SNK 2, with both games being very popular in their time. Will there be a revival for this? It's a possib...
Publisher Aksys Games and developer RareBreed Makes Games will be delaying its upcoming 2D pixel-based fighting game Blazing Strike, which still looks really gorgeous and fluid in motion. Don't believe me? Check out the trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBG4nWyix8w Blazing Strike will be delayed to Spring 2023, quite a few mon...
The King of Fighters XV's latest characters will be out next week, and will have the long-awaited crossplay feature next year. SNK announced during EVO 2022 that Team Awakened Orochi, which features Orochi Yashiro, Orochi Chris, and Orochi Shermie, will release on 8th August. That's this coming Monday. To recap, they play like their KOF '97, KOF...
With the work it has done for the Bloodstained 2D pixel side games, Inti Creates would be a shoe-in to make a full-fledged 2D action game in the veins of the Castlevania series. Wouldn't you know it, that's what it's working on right now. The company that made the Mega Man Zero and Azure Striker Gunvolt series (and GalGun) has announced a side-s...
Some games age like fine wine. Others may not be the hot title when it first came out, but end up becoming better in retrospect, arguably being a title ahead of its time. At Kakuchopurei, we may cover a lot of new games, but we always fall back to the classics, be it the incredibly old ones or recent titles from a few years past. There are a bun...
Warner Bros. Games' big 2D fighting game MultiVersus, featuring a ton of characters from DC Comics and Cartoon Network (among other IPs) will be out later this month. MultiVersus will launch on 26 July for PC (Steam), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4 according to Warner Bros. Games and developer Player First Games. If you want to access the g...
Turtle Power indeed! Dotemu and developer Tribute Games announced that its new 2D beat-em-up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge has sold over one million units in its first week of release across all platforms, since its 16 June release date. Here are a few words from Dotemu CEO Cyrille Imbert via press release regarding the succes...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D Run-And-Gun Shoot-em-Up; basically Contra If it weren't for Konami who has a tight rein on its Contra brand, you can mistaken WayForward's "new" 2D run-and-gun shooter game Spidersaurs as the next Contra entry. After all, the Shantae developer did make Contra 4 back in...
The fashion-themed retro first-person shooter Fashion Police Squad will be out next month in full svelte form. The shooter will launch for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on 15th August for US$19.99 according to publisher No More Robots and developer Mopeful Games. The game will be out on consoles on a later date. Here's a feature list and ...
The hit Vampire Survivors clone-but-with-Hololive-VTubers fangame HoloCure is getting a ton of buzz for its lovely graphics and addictive survive-til-you-die gameplay. So it's good to know that there's new content oncoming. According to its creator Kay Yu on Twitter, the HoloCure game will be getting new stages, enemies, and related content arou...
We've talked a bit about the potential 2022 GOTY candidate Vampire Survivors, which is a top-down 2D action game where you survive against hordes of the undead clearly tailored after Castlevania sprites. The game is so popular (and insanely cheap on Steam) that it inspired a clone that's using VTubers and Hololive characters. That clone is c...
Hakama, the folks behind the recent Rune Factory action RPG/life sim/romance titles, will be launching a Nintendo Switch game called Worth Life. Worth Life is a 2D fantasy title where you can play your way, be it questing or farming or fishing to your heart's content while living the simple life. The game has a curiosity Spark System where you m...
Platform(s): PC (version played), PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: 80s license cartoon beat-em-up with 6-player co-op and lovely fan service The late 80s and 90s Konami licensed beat-em-ups, particular the ones with the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, rely on fast-paced offensive gameplay, simple controls, and relentles...
In OlliOlli World, you play a skateboarder making a name for himself/herself/themselves in the world of Radlandia, featuring Adventure Time-esque characters and weirdos as well as sick stages filled with ramps and other skateboarding hazards. It was really fun, so I'm happy to report that we're getting some DLC in the mix. OlliOlli World's upcom...
Sad news for action gaming fans who love pixel art and cyberpunk elements. Sad Cat Studios and publisher Thunderful have announced that its upcoming 2D action game Replaced is getting delayed to 2023. This is due to the continued war in Ukraine heavily impacting the Belarusian-based studio. "The priority for Sad Cat was for the safety of the te...
Team Ladybug, the folks behind the lovely 2021 search action title Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, just surprise-launched a nifty 2D shmup called Drainus. It's a short but very action-packed shmup with a nifty counter and bullet reflecting mechanic. If you love 2D pixel art, explosions, and going left to right shooting things to ...
Madshot, a rogue-lite shooter by publisher HOOK and indie developer Overflow will be coming to Steam Early Access on 9 June 2022. Alright, let's cut to the chase, what is Madshot? Madshot is a rogue-lite shooter that is fast-paced thanks to the acrobatic mechanics and allows you to upgrade your equipment along the way as you fight your way throu...
The pretty sweet-looking spin-off to the River City series of games will be out in English in a few months. Publisher Arc System Works and developer APlus Games will release River City Saga: Three Kingdoms for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC on 21 July for US$29.99. River City Saga: Three Kingdoms will have our beat-em-up heroes Kunio and Riki f...
Anno Mutationem is a pretty awesome 2D action game with gorgeous visuals, a lovely soundtrack, and a pretty roundabout anime plot. That last part was made all the more obtuse with how the game ended originally. Thankfully, developer Lightning Games has fixed that and added a few more things with its latest major update. Anno Mutationem's 1.04 up...
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