Samurai Shodown

SNK’s new trend of bringing classic NeoGeo Pocket games to Nintendo Switch continues, with King of Fighters R-2 and Samurai Shodown! 2 being the latest games to join the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection range. Both games released last Friday, priced at NZD $13.20 / AUD $12.00 each. They offer “perfectly …

Good news, everyone! SNK hasn’t forgotten about Samurai Shodown (or Samurai Spirits, as the series is known in Japan), with a new game set to release on PlayStation 4 next year. SNK announced the new game during Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show media showcase, after a teasing some sort of reveal over the past …

As much as I love Samurai Shodown, the premier samurai-themed fighting game, to me, has always been The Last Blade 2. When it first caught my attention back in the early 2000s, it was the Bakumatsu setting that really grabbed me. It’s a period of history that I was fascinated …