Fighting Game Guides
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Fighting Game: Competitive Basics
How Smash Ultimate works as a competitive fighter: percent and knockback, stocks, shields and out-of-shield options, ledge play and tournament rules.
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Combat Explained
Sekiro’s Posture System Explained: Deflects, Posture Damage and Deathblows
How Sekiro's posture bar works: deflect vs block, posture recovery, perilous attacks like thrusts, sweeps and grabs, and how deathblows end fights.
Action Game Guides
What Is a Character Action Game? The Genre Explained
What separates character action games from hack-and-slash, souls-likes and action RPGs, plus the landmark games that define the genre.
Fighting Fundamentals
Combos Explained: Links, Cancels, Chains and Target Combos
Links, cancels, chains, target combos and juggles explained in plain English, plus damage scaling, input buffers and how combo routes are written.
Fighting Fundamentals
Footsies and Neutral Explained: Winning the Fight Before the Combo
What footsies and neutral really mean, how spacing, pokes and whiff punishes work in 2D and 3D fighters, and simple drills to start practising.
Action Game Guides
God of War Series Guide: Play Order From the Greek Era to Ragnarok
Every God of War game in release and story order, from the PS2 originals and handheld entries to Ragnarok, Valhalla and the 2026 Sons of Sparta.
Action Game Guides
Bayonetta Series Guide: Witch Time, Play Order and What Makes It Special
Every Bayonetta game in order, where to play them today, how Origins fits in, and the combat ideas that make PlatinumGames' witch a genre icon.
History
The History of Tekken: How Namco Built the 3D Fighter
From Tekken (1994) to Tekken 8: the sidestep, tag battles, Bound, Rage and Heat, the Mishima feud in brief, and Katsuhiro Harada's long run with the series.
History
The History of Street Fighter: From 1987 to Street Fighter 6
How Street Fighter evolved from a 1987 arcade curiosity to Street Fighter 6, era by era, with the mechanics each generation added to the genre.
Combat Explained
Parry Systems Explained: From Street Fighter III to Sekiro
How parries work in Street Fighter III, SF6, Garou, Sekiro, Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta, and why the risk/reward trade-off makes them so satisfying.