(AfroGamers.com) One of my favorite storylines in all of anime is the story of Ken and Ryu from the Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha series. This friendship/rivalry was best told in the anime than the video games. The Core of Ken and Ryu Canonically, Ken always felt that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Mortal Kombat is one of the most iconic game franchises of all time and one of the greatest fight game franchises of all time. It had its pros and cons story mode-wise and that’s what we’ll be getting into here. Not just MK but Street Fighter and King of ...
(AfroGamers.com) In 2016, I was playing a lot of Civilization 5 leading up to the release of the newest game, Civ 6. Of course, I was excited for the game. I have been playing Civ since the back end of the second game. Usually, it is not a game that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Double Dragon is an OG of beat ‘em up games. Developed by Technos, the first game dropped in 1987 and was supposed to be a sequel of the Kunio-kun franchise, one of my favorite beat ‘em up franchises of all time. Four years later, Rare developed Battletoads. Then someone ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Super Mario franchise has a number of spin-offs in its over 40-year run. We touched on two spinoffs in our “Here Are 5 of the Best Video Game Spinoffs” piece. Now we’re focusing just on Super Mario and ranking the spinoffs from strongest to pretty damn strong. Will ...
(AfroGamers.com) Roughly three years ago, our own Joe D wrote a tribute to the late Stan Lee in the form of his favorite Marvel games. Number three on that list was a favorite of mine: Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage. Spider-Man and Venom Team Up This game takes the 1993 ...
(AfroGamers.com) Super Street Fighter II was a landmark in the Street Fighter franchise. It featured the best roster of fighters, a graphical improvement, and was just tons of fun to play and sh** talk with friends. The Super Nintendo version was the one I regularly brought to school during the ...
(AfroGamers.com) Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man is one of the legendary franchises in video game history. It’s one of the franchises that put Namco on the map in gaming while eating up high score-chasing arcade goers’ quarters for decades. If you can find an arcade, there’s likely to be a Pac-Man or ...
(AfroGamers.com) With a couple of classics getting HD remakes in recent years, it wouldn’t be surprising to see plenty of them coming down the pike going forward. There was a time when there wasn’t a big deal around remakes but that’s definitely changing. The best thing about these HD remakes ...
(AfroGamers.com) Recently, we got another “State of Play” for the PlayStation family of consoles. Most of it was geared towards the PlayStation 5 which is still not in the greatest supply. What games stood out? Let’s take a look! Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2023) For me, this was the standout from ...