The creator of the mega Call of Duty franchise, and co-creator of Infinity Ward, announcing a martial arts tycoon game set within the Brazilian favelas, certainly was not on our 2023 bingo card. However, with such a name as big as Chance Glasco behind it, we are fully prepared to explore Martial Arts Tycoon: Brazil.
The Eastasiasoft team are fairly regular with their console releases, popping up on a weekly basis to fill our our digital libraries. The latest game to come from that team is Albacete Warrior - a bloody bonkers, utterly bizarre martial arts adventure.
Listening to the developers of 9 Monkeys of Shaolin talk about their inspirations, it’s clear that they live and breathe martial arts movies. Frustrated at a lack of games that captured the atmosphere of a Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba or Jackie Chan flick, they decided to make their own. 9 Monkeys of Shaolin launches today on Xbox One, PS4, Switch and PC via Steam.
Dead or Alive 6, the latest instalment of iconic fighting series from KOEI TECMO America and Team NINJA, is set to feature two returning characters as part of its roster. That’s right, fan favourites Brad and Eliot will join the other 22 playable characters already announced when DOA 6 arrives in February 2019.
Talented actors and heightened martial arts stop Knights of the Zodiac from tumbling into the pit marked ‘Dragonball Evolution and The Last Airbender’.
Coming to you from Digital Eclipse, The Making of Karateka is an interactive documentary that talks you through how the martial arts action game was developed.
The famous Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts inspired the release of a series of video games for various platforms. The very first game was released back in 2000 for the Dreamcast console. After a while, projects for the Xbox began to appear.
When you think karate, your mind goes to just one man, one child, if you will. The Karate Kid! And with the sequel to The Karate Kid - Cobra Kai proving equally popular with its Netflix release in recent years, it will come as no surprise to see this martial arts extravaganza brought over to the gaming landscape.
The iconic film series, The Karate Kid, received a new lease of life when the follow-up Cobra Kai delivered two excellent seasons of martial arts drama to YouTube Premium. Since arriving on Netflix though, its popularity has grown exponentially and that makes this the ideal timing for a video game tie-in. Hence, Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues steps out of the dojo to bring beat ‘em up action to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. You better be ready to strike hard and strike fast!