samurai shodown
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Samurai Shodown Feels Like the Real SNK is Back
5When I was a lad the highlight of every month was the games magazines. And apart from the actual writing inside, they all came with adverts at the back which were every bit as delicious to drool over. The ones from importers especially: games you’d never heard of, even consoles you’d never heard of, along…
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Samurai Shodown Is Slow And Deliberate In The Best Way Possible
Samurai Shodown, out now for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is the series’ first original outing in eleven years. Although it’s unnumbered, this release represents the seventh mainline instalment of the storied fighting franchise, bringing its unique brand of methodical swordplay to a generation already overrun with sequels, reboots, and resurrections. My biggest question heading…
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If SNK Made StarCraft…
SNK does not make StarCraft. Blizzard makes StarCraft, and SNK made its name with 2D games like Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters. But if SNK made a game with Blizzard’s characters, it might look like this.
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‘Brawl’ Art Contest Spawns Beautifully Reimagined Fighters
When the CG artists who inhabit the Polycount forums direct their creative juices at redesigning the famous fighters of video games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Tekken and more, we’re the real winners.