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Ninja Gaiden has returned as a new 2D side-scrolling action platformer called Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Revealed at The Game Awards 2024 with the trailer, below, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound sees new ...

2025 was a banner year for action games. From a surprise breakout Soulslike with one of the hardest-hitting and most brutal combat systems the genre has ever seen, to the hotly anticipated follow-up ...

Onikura is a 2D platforming boss-rush action game built around lightning-fast slashes and surgically precise parry actions. Every clash is a battle for survival—attack, parry, heal, and consume souls ...

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Ninja Kiwi’s Bloons franchise is still going nearly 20 years after its Flash game origins. The studio has a balance between legacy and innovation, devoting roughly 75% of resources to existing IPs and ...

There’s a special sort of bliss that comes from a dumb action game. It doesn’t matter if the plot works or if the impetus for slicing up bad guys makes sense; the only thing that matters is how good ...

Ninja Gaiden 4 is set to release in several days, on October 21, 2025. That game would not exist without the vision of Tomonobu Itagaki, who revived the long-dormant Ninja Gaiden series with 2004's ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history.Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Dormant for more than a decade, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance ($30) does everything right ...