Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Okay, so Streets of Rage 4 is technically a PS4 game, but when it comes to beat ’em ups, it’s undoubtedly the best there is ...

Development studios Guard Crush and Supamonks have partnered with Gamera Games and Dotemu to announce a brand-new game called Absolum. This is an action RPG meshed with the genre these folks know best ...

Absolum is an innovative beat-'em-up that reimagines genre limitations while delivering brawling designed by the teams behind Streets of Rage 4's combat. Fight as one of four different rebels, each ...

While there are complex systems at work with Towerborne, at its core, it's about picking up a controller and punching the nearest bad guy. Developer Stoic is looking to build something ambitious with ...

It only took 13 years from announcement to release but survival horror title Routine (from Lunar Software and publisher Raw ...

Genre hybrids are everywhere these days—whether a turn-based soulslike or a city-building deckbuilder—but I'm still regularly ...

I just can't get enough of beat-'em-ups if I'm honest. What started as a love of Castle Crashers evolved into trying out the Battletoads reboot and taking a chance on TMNT Shredders Revenge. Thrashing ...

Immortal Hunters is a brand-new beat 'em up RPG from debutant developer Admiral Games that blends a bold, spooky art style with smashing side-scrolling combat. Having recently launched into Steam ...

Absolum review covering gameplay, combat, roguelite systems, co-op, visuals, and soundtrack in Dotemu’s stylish side-scrolling beat ’em up adventure.

This should come as no surprise to anyone who played Shredder’s Revenge, but Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a fantastic retro adventure that feels like it belongs on an arcade machine in a pizza bar; one ...

Largely inspired by the popularity of martial arts films, the beat 'em up genre was pioneered by games like Kung Fu Master and Double Dragon in the 1980s. Known for fast-paced and hard-hitting action, ...