The team crafted an excellent adventure inspired by Konami’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” adventures on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and arcades, and now, its follow-up echoes another ...

This should come as no surprise to anyone who played Shredder’s Revenge, but Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a fantastic retro adventure that feels like it belongs on an arcade machine in a pizza bar; one ...

A fan of scrolling beat ‘em-ups such as Final Fight and Streets Of Rage offers his list of the very best, including arcade classics and brand new indie titles. With the resurgence of the scrolling ...

While the genre isn't as prolific as it once was, beat-'em-ups still tend to follow in the mold of Final Fight and Streets of Rage: You're a muscle-bound mayor or a martial arts expert or occasionally ...

I grew up with arcade beat-em-ups like Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time and X-Men. It was a genre I loved, so I was sad to see it diminish in relevance. Thankfully, beat-em-ups ...

Recently during one of Nintendo’s Direct presentations, a new pixel art beat ‘em up was revealed for later this year named Marvel Cosmic Invasion and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, ...

Some things are just meant to be. Peanut butter and chocolate. Movie theaters and popcorn. The Cleveland Browns and failure. By all rights, Power Rangers and a mid-90s arcade beat ‘em up should also ...

Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Few video game genres have been as played out as the beat ‘em up, but Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind shows that the format still has juice left in it. This style of simple action game has ...

For my money, Streets of Rage 4 is the best beat-em-up of the modern era – and honestly might give the retro classics that inspired it a run for their money. While one of the three studios involved in ...

It's unfair and frankly stupid to say that beat-’em-ups are a "solved" genre. There is no such thing. Especially in recent years, with indie developers pushing boundaries across the medium, we've seen ...