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What is it? One of the most intricately drawn 2D fighters in SNK’s classic era. Play it if you like…  Street Fighter 3, Fatal Fury, The Rumble Fish and simple but technical 2D fighting games. Format: PS4, PS Vita Price: $14.99 Release date: Out now SNK is back. Starting in …

If you play games long enough, you start to notice a lot of similarities. “Hey, these games sure have a lot of chest-high walls.” “Wow, there sure are lots of games with zombies.” And so on. One thing you’ll also begin to notice is how many video game characters share …

This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special is looking, well, super as the Time Lord travels to New York where a hero called the Ghost rules the skies. In an exclusive interview in the brand new issue of SFX magazine (opens in new tab), Doctor Who writer and showrunner Steven Moffat …

We all do it. In those first few moments when you enter a game and take control of your character, you want to get a feel for what’s in store – so instead of pursuing progress straight away, you fidget around in place for a spell. Running back and forth, …

Persona 5 (opens in new tab) has style. It’s something I knew going in, having played the previous two entries in the series and seen various trailers and screenshots for the new one out of Japan. But seeing is one thing; I actually got to play a brief snippet of …

If you’re getting impatient for Stranger Things season 3 (opens in new tab), there’s a programme you might have overlooked. It has two whole seasons already on Netflix in the USA and it’s been out for so long it can be picked up comparatively cheaply on Amazon (opens in new …

After 10 spectacular episodes, Westworld (opens in new tab) has finished its first season. While I’m not sure how I’m going to make it until 2018 to see more, it turns out that there’s a much easier way to get your AI fix than time travel. It appears that pretty …

Hype is a dangerous fire to stoke, I’m aware. Fan the flames too much and everyone ends up burnt. Just ask the engineers of the Virtual Boy. Just ask Hello Games. But there is a bright side to the unfair No Man’s Sky backlash, at least: with this many people …

The Big Topic: Puzzle games to help refocus your mind Further Discussion: Dishonored 2’s prescient and entertaining stealth What we’re into: Infinite Warfare is the best Call of Duty game in years What a week, huh? We’re here to help get you back on track though, as we discuss a …

It was a dark and stormy night when I interviewed Stéphane Beauverger, Vampyr (opens in new tab)’s Narrative Director at Dontnod entertainment, the creators of Life is Strange (opens in new tab). He had plenty to tell me about Vampyr, the role-playing game where you play Jonathan Reid, a newly-turned …