Derek Lairmore

Koei Tecmo has been a staple of the video game industry since its creation in 2009. Since then, it has hosted several video game companies but most notably among them in recent memory is the famous Team Ninja, the team behind smash hits like Nioh and Ninja Gaiden, and more recently, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty as well as

The remake for the Konami's Team Silent classic, Silent Hill 2 , in development by Bloober Team, has been the subject of much discussion since its initial announcement.

It would be an understatement to say that Kazuma Kaneko is a huge part of video game history. Being the creative mind behind many of the iconic designs and art of ATLUS' Shin Megami Tensei franchise, which includes the ever popular Persona series, has announced that he officially left ATLUS in 2023. This is a massive hit to Shin Megami Tensei fans, and JPRG fans as a whole, as Kaneko's art is practically synonymous with the genre. Or at least, it would be, had Kaneko not announced that he was moving to COLOPL to work on a new IP with them,

Yoshihiro Togashi is a legend in the anime and manga world, most westerners were exposed to his work with the anime adaptation of his extremely popular shonen series YuYu Hakusho, but those same westerners truly fell in love with his work with his later shonen series Hunter x Hunter. As with most anime and manga that

Bandai Namco’s smash hit Elden Ring has been a constant in gaming discussion ever since its release in 2022, for those up to date on just how fast contemporary gaming news comes and goes, that’s impressive to be in the discussion for so long when it had a several year drought of content. What’s even more impressive

EVO is a staple of the fighting game community, a massive tournament and celebration of fighting games and fighting game culture, and this past weekend the Japanese held version of the event, EVO Japan, reached its conclusion. The tournaments themselves are celebrated and beloved as always, but the real draw of the event is, obviously, the trailers. People watch EVO half for the good gameplay and half for the teasers of upcoming content. Luckily, EVO Japan did not disappoint.

Atlus has recently graced us with a new trailer for the expanded edition of their latest entry in the Shin Megami Tensei series, Shin Megami Tensei V , dubbed Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Capcom's 2023 fighting game Street Fighter 6 has been a bit stagnant since release. The nature of current day fighting games demand at least a modicum of change to keep the playerbase happy and curious, and aside from the four DLC characters, that change has been largely absent from Street Fighter 6. Luckily for those still playing it looks like Street Fighter 6 Season 2 is on the horizon, and it brings Akuma with it. This balance patch brings changes for most if not all characters, and a Twitter thread of suspected changes can be found below.

With Lidia Sobieska’s reveal trailer at EVO Japan for Bandai Namco’s flagship fighting game, Tekken 8, fans of the series have been following the breadcrumbs and have put a few pieces together. Ever since it was first announced Tekken 8 has been plagued with several supposed data leaks that may or may not have

Mortal Kombat has a weird history with DLC characters. While they'll pull from their own long history of storied characters their guest characters, of which there are usually many, tend to have a them.