The core problem of the beat-'em-up genre in 2025 is content. They're games designed to be beatable in two or three hours.

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Five miles off Taiwan’s coast, ZTD-05 amphibious vehicles roll out of ships and zip over the water amid a hail of artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have their orders: Seize the beach, or die ...

The next beat ’em up from developer Tribute Games, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, is a great title that builds on what the team made with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. But it’s not ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Tribute Games clearly believes in the power of nostalgia. Its last project, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, brought the heroes in a ...

Three years after the release of the excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Tribute Games and Dotemu are back with another licensed beat ’em up game that blends nostalgia and love ...

Depending on who you talk to, beat ‘em ups are either repetitive, button-mashy coin munchers or a deceptively simple vehicle for absolute combat mastery. Me? I’m in the latter camp. But how do you get ...

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