Samurai Shodown looks and sounds lovely, but it ultimately fails the playability test due to slipshod control and boring, depthless gameplay. There's no question that Digital Bridges took a risk in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Fighting game fans know the name Samurai Shodown, since it's one of the most respected series among SNK's crop of NeoGeo classics. Granted, many fans ...

They’re calling this the year of the samurai. And why shouldn’t they? The team at SNK Corporation has spent the last several years working to revive the venerable Samurai Shodown series, and the new ...

When I was in university, there was a giant arcade right across the street. It's not hard to guess where I could be found when I had free time (or - cough cough - pretended to have free time). It was ...

Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection is packed to the brim with production notes, character design documents, and interviews, but it's the inclusion of a previously unreleased game, Samurai Shodown V ...

Robin has a passion for games, tech, and entertainment that stretches back as far as he can remember. From big-budget shooters and RPGs to quirky casual titles, anything with focused design and ...

Staff Writer, Paul DiSalvo is a writer, comic creator, animation lover, and game design enthusiast currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts. From its unique and stylized presentation to its ...

The subtitle above is the descriptor of the fourth fighting Spirit in Samurai Shodown VI, which is just one of the games on SNK Playmore's Samurai Shodown Anthology. As has been the case with the ...

It’s been 11 years since the last Samurai Shodown game released. Once a pivotal franchise in the fighting genre, it has since fallen a bit from grace. Samurai Shodown was a different take on the ...

I'd expected this one a little earlier. SNK's Samurai Shodown came to the Virtual Console over two years ago, dropping into the Wii Shop in June of 2008. Its sequel, Samurai Shodown II, then arrived ...

Fast forward to the present day, and Samurai Shodown continues to hold a high level of respect among fighting game aficionados, even if many of them argue that the series saw its zenith with 1994's ...