Curated playlist
Crossover fighting games
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 opens its story with two powerful organizations trying to ease political tension through martial arts. The Garcia Financial Clique and the Masters Foundation stage a tournament called Millennium Fight…
- Tekken X Street FighterTekken X Street Fighter was announced to the world on the 24th of July 2010, at the San Diego Comic-Con, and it never came out. That single fact contains a story that stretched across more than a decade of teasers, poll campaigns,…
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 arrived on the 16th of May 2025 as the third entry in Capcom's Fighting Collection series. Its headline feature was a pair of fighting games that had been absent from the market since the early 2000s. Eight…
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution arrived in arcades in 2004 carrying a premise that sounded almost too good to be true. Characters from Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Darkstalkers, and the obscure CPS…
- SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumSNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium arrived in 1999 as something that fighting game fans had argued about in arcades for years: which company's fighters were truly the best? SNK and Capcom were bitter rivals, each running a stable…
- X-Men vs. Street FighterX-Men vs. Street Fighter arrived in Japanese arcades in September 1996 and claimed the top spot on Japan's arcade charts the following month. Game Machine tracked the country's most commercially successful arcade releases. The publication…
- Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began not on a home console but in a Japanese arcade. At the Japan Amusement Expo trade show in Chiba in February 2015, Square Enix announced a new fighting game built on PlayStation 4 core technology. The plan…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos arrived in arcades in 2003 as the dream matchup fans of two rival fighting game giants had been waiting for. SNK Playmore built the game on Neo Geo hardware, a platform long associated with the company's most…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes arrived in Japanese arcades in February 1998, and within weeks it had done something its predecessors had not: it flung open the door beyond Street Fighter. For the first time in the series, players…
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter hit arcades in 1997. Game Machine ranked it the third most successful arcade game in Japan that August. Capcom built the game as the direct sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter, which had arrived in…
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsMarvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics was not revealed at a fighting game tournament. It surfaced during a June 2024 Nintendo Direct, a presentation aimed at casual audiences and families. The competitive gaming community…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: InfiniteMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is a 2017 crossover fighting game built by Capcom. It sends heroes and villains from the Marvel Comics universe up against Capcom's own cast in tag team battles. Capcom expected the game to sell two million…
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixSuper Gem Fighter Mini Mix arrived in arcades in 1997 with a simple, disarming premise: what if Capcom's most beloved fighters were shrunk down to chibi proportions and sent on ridiculous personal errands? Ryu is looking for worthy…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades in the summer of 2001, asking a question that fighting game fans had argued about for years: whose fighters were better, Capcom's or SNK's? The game put 48 characters from…
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii USuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U arrived in 2014 as two separate games sharing a single vision: to find the ground between two very different versions of the same franchise. One version fit in your pocket; the other filled a…
- Super Smash Bros. UltimateSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate began with a dying wish. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata died in 2015. His final request to series director Masahiro Sakurai was to bring Super Smash Bros. to the Nintendo Switch. Sakurai honored that request by…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two WorldsMarvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds arrived in February 2011 carrying a weight of nearly a decade of silence. The series had gone dark after legal disputes froze Capcom's license to use Marvel characters, leaving fans with nothing new…
- Street Fighter X TekkenStreet Fighter X Tekken arrived in 2012 as one of gaming's most unexpected partnerships. Two of the biggest fighting game franchises in history, built on completely different philosophies, were finally sharing a stage. But which studio's…
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 arrived in stores on the 15th of November 2011, less than nine months after the game it was based on had launched. That is an unusually short gap between a fighting game and its successor. The reason it exists…
- Fighting EX LayerFighting EX Layer is a 2018 fighting video game built and published by the Japanese studio Arika. On April Fools' Day in 2017, Arika posted online footage of an unnamed fighting game prototype. Staff had built it while experimenting with…