Two years ago, Sharkattack started work on a fighting game called Battle Capacity. Using the 2-D Fighter Maker and his own Pokemon-like design, he was able to create a pretty good game. After balancing some issues and bugs, he released the final product a few days ago. If you’re looking for a fighting game that’s [...]

Take a couple ape-like beasts and a few vicious dinosaurs, throw them in a game to defend the “Urth,” and what do you get? Primal Rage, an execution-heavy, claymation-styled fighting game that rocked the early 90′s. With the successful release of this unique fighter, Atari soon began work on a sequel. Sadly, the game didn’t [...]

Today, Gamespot’s Maxwell McGee posted an interesting piece on how modern fighting games could benefit from an expanded functionality in how they handle replays and replay sharing. His ideas range from simple things like tag integration to more advanced concepts like clip compilation and community highlights. We all know the usefulness of replays in training [...]

Keits and skisonic are back to get your Tuesday night with the fighting game community started right. Tonight’s installment of Wakeup SRK will feature another guest appearance by Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont, who is set to join the duo’s discussion on designing a fighting game system. He’s sure to have a ton of great input [...]

With Skullgirls and Divekick making waves in the community, 2012 may very well go down as the year of the indie fighter. And it might be time to add another title to that list. Developed by Liero, the creator of the Street Fighter x Tekken PC mod for AE 2012, Rumble Pack is a completely [...]

Gamespot’s Fighting Games Symposium by Maxwell McGee was recently updated with five more pages, each one dedicated to a new voice and a new set of opinions. Patrick Riley of Sega, community veteran James Chen, NetherRealms Studio’s Adam Urbano, iPlayWinner founder Neidel “Haunts” Crisan, and Tekken godfather Katsuhiro Harada all weigh in on a variety [...]

A man stood in a subway station during the morning hours of a cold January day in 2007, grasping a violin upon which he played six of the most intricate pieces of music ever conceived. The hour that he played went largely unnoticed by the distracted crowds who swarm L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION in Washington, frantically [...]

While the independent fighting game scene in Japan has been thriving as of late, smaller American publishers rarely set their sights on the genre. Hot on the heels of Skullgirls, CircGeo Studios have announced Gilden Tide, a steampunk influenced fighter currently in development. Though scant details have been revealed as of late, the studio released [...]

The key to effective teaching and learning is in understanding how the human brain works. Before I became a professional geek I had a long college career in psychology and dabbled in teaching. I quickly figured out that if you don’t keep in mind the brain’s psychological limits you might as well be giving a [...]

Earlier this week, we posted a rumor about Sony working on a fighting game similar to the Smash Bros. series. It looks like the rumor might actually be true. A poster on NeoGAF found some test screenshots of the game on one of the developer’s twitter accounts. The images show a character model of Sweet [...]

NYC PRACTICE is a game design conference that takes place at the NYU Game Center, which is part of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. A fighting game panel took place there, featuring Seth Killian, David Sirlin, and Arturo Sanchez as speakers. Seth, as you know, is a special adviser on many of Capcom’s fighting [...]