I am an SNK fan (with a deeprooted fanaticism that will probably last until I die), and Bitmap Book’s earlier Neo Geo book did not disappoint. I will definitely be picking this up, even though Metal Slug is not quite my favorite SNK franchise (though I’ve purchased the individual titles more than a dozen times on…

My appraisal is basically the same as when Microsoft announced it: not only is there no quick-swapable battery, there’s not even a clear way to replace the battery when it inevitably dies without prying the casing open and hoping for the best. So, even with its improvements, there’s really no reason to prematurely…

Oh, in that case I’m behind--I was still thinking of the debate over the choice of Terry versus Mai as the cameo fighter themselves. 

I actually assumed it was because fighting style (here, I looked it up: Shiranui-ryuu ninjitsu) wouldn’t translate well to an arena fighter like Smash Brothers. Yes, I’m aware that there’s no way to articulate that without sounding at least a little stupid, but even back in Fatal Fury 2 (her first appearance), Mai’s…

Sounds like something some good ole’ journalism could get to the bottom of.

The fan is dying on mine--it’s very loud and chronically overheats, even just in PS2 games. 

This is pretty hilarious, as my immediately thoughts were wow a hueg spiderman-font PS3! I haven’t seen one of those in a long that that wasn’t sitting underneath my bedroom television. 

Kenji Kamiyama (the director of Stand Alone Complex, Seirei no Moribito, and Eden of the East) said much the same thing, in his inimitably unflappable style: hand-drawn animation, with less computer assistance, was simply becoming less and less of a skill trained for and utilized by subsequent classes of new…

I’m waiting for a multiplatform release. I’d be genuinely surprised if the first episode didn’t come to PC before the second episode was delivered, though after that, who knows? 

Even back on the Xbox 360 and with that generation’s hardware limitations, Sera has always had a very memorable architectural sensibility to it, at least starting with what’s left of Ephyra. The very, very high-end CG videos in the Ultimate Edition very much highlight that combination of neoclassical epic architecture…

Thanks for the great article, John! While I doubt it’s the most popular franchise overall, I know KOF still has a audience in Taiwan and is much more secure in the public consciousness then somewhere like the United States for much the same reasons: proliferation of capable, affordable hardware in a country…

“War dead” includes civilian deaths relating to the war. Scholarship on deaths of military personnel (admittedly a blurred line in all countries, but particularly those on the Eastern Front), seem to suggest 5 to 6 million German (and Austrian) military deaths and 9 to 11 million Soviet military deaths (this would…

But only if you get the antimatter bomb before the British and Americans. That’s what makes it ironic. 

Like most people, I mostly recognize the name courtesy of War Thunder. But yes, the VVS had thousands of aircraft on the onset of the war....and nothing resembling a strategic bombing fleet, both in capability and organization (of course, it also took time for the B-17 and B-29 to become operational). The Pe-8, as a…

The headliner piece (KOM-44) has a certain...historical?...irony, considering that even 1945, the USSR’s leaders stated publicly: 1) they had probably defeated over 80% of the German Empire on the battlefield almost single-handed and 2) whatever horrors had been committed in the process, they had done it without the…

That was actually an interesting account, thank you for sharing.

I take it you weren’t in North America during the start of Britney Spears’ career.

Halo 5 did it first, but this is still very impressive.

In Japan, tattoos and the yakuza often seem inseparable.

Littering aside, I found this enormously charming (probably more so than could be justified) when catching the other side (RT’s Ruptly-affiliate interviewing the retired skipped of said Soviet fishing ship). I was convinced it was from the Soviet merchant marine (eh, pretty close?) before turning the subtitles on.