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 ...

Newer beat ‘em ups, besides actually being completable, know how to up the ante, give you a little extra value, a little more ...

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 ...

And thirty years ago the SNES saw the conclusion of a trilogy that’s now regarded as a genre-defining masterpiece. When Final ...

Recently during one of Nintendo’s Direct presentations, a new pixel art beat ‘em up was revealed for later this year named Marvel Cosmic Invasion and it’s coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, ...

Hasan Nasir (He/Him) is a trained journalist based in Ontario, Canada. Growing up playing arcade games, and being a comic-book/superhero game enthusiast, Hasan understands the wide spectrum of ...

Side-scrolling beat ’em up action game RUSHING BEAT X: Return of Brawl Brothers will launch for PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PC (Steam) version, publishers City ...

While the genre isn't as prolific as it once was, beat-'em-ups still tend to follow in the mold of Final Fight and Streets of Rage: You're a muscle-bound mayor or a martial arts expert or occasionally ...

Gamers of a certain age will remember when beat-'em-ups ruled arcades. The cabinets inhaled quarters as four players teamed ...

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 ...

I grew up with arcade beat-em-ups like Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time and X-Men. It was a genre I loved, so I was sad to see it diminish in relevance. Thankfully, beat-em-ups ...