SNK's Metal Slug series is, in many ways, the last hope for 2D side-scrolling arcade fanatics. From the very first Metal Slug all the way up to Metal Slug 6, hundreds of thousands of coins have been ...

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Metal Slug 3 is now available on iOS and Anrdoid mobile platforms. Given that it's one of the hardest games around – now made even harder with touch controls – we're assuming it was released solely as ...

New Metal Slug figures will be reporting for duty. SNK announced that four from Tunshi Studio based on Metal Slug 3 characters are in the works. Marco, Tarma, and two Rebel Soldier figures are ...

Before it became cool to eschew polygons and return to sprites, SNK was pumping out gorgeous graphics in its run-and-gun series Metal Slug. Now one of the best in the series, Metal Slug 3 from back in ...

Metal Slug 3, one of the crown jewels in SNK Playmore's retro video game catalog, remains an exciting, well-crafted experience more than a decade after its original Neo Geo release. Charming graphics ...

It’s hard to believe that once upon a time, the shooter genre – one that is now essentially relegated to niche market status – was one of the largest and most profitable in the videogame ...

Only a few years ago, console and arcade games were comparable graphically. In fact, it wasn't until the Dreamcast and the amazing Soul Calibur that console games began surpassing the quality offered ...

Metal Slug 3, one of the crown jewels in SNK Playmore's retro video game catalog, remains an exciting, well-crafted experience more than a decade after its original Neo Geo release.

While the character select screen might not be as common nowadays, here are some of the ways it has let us choose our favorite characters over the years. This week Final Fantasy XIII comes out with ...