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- 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…
- Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 arrived in Japan on the 4th of March, 2000, not as a follow-up to anything familiar, but as a launch title for an entirely new machine: the PlayStation 2. In a single moment, a franchise built on 2D sprites and arcade…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Dead or Alive (franchise)Dead or Alive began as a wager. In the mid-1990s, Tecmo was in financial trouble, and a programmer named Tomonobu Itagaki made a bet with company management, including vice president Junji Nakamura: he would create a game with a genuine…