The breakneck action of SNK's playfully over-the-top military shooter series still holds up, despite compromised motion controls and additional load times. After years of scattered, piecemeal releases ...

I love Metal Slug, but when Dotemu and Leikir Studios announced they were turning SNK’s cult classic run-and-gun sidescroller into a turn-based tactics game, I had two responses. They were, in order: ...

Metal Slug Tactics is like fat-free lard. It just doesn’t make sense. I mean, just think about the Metal Slug franchise. At its core, Metal Slug is about loud, run-and-gun action where you go YOLO ...

Seriously? A Metal Slug tactics game? The only "tactic" I remember from these classic side-scrolling shoot-em-ups is "kill everything that isn't you". They were pure cartoony chaos, a delightfully ...

I’ve lost way too much time to the Metal Slug series over the years, that most ubiquitous of Neo Geo arcade shooters. Classic Contra-adjacent run-and-gun shooters; loud, dumb and gorgeously animated.