I've long been a fan of Bitmap Books, having supported its NES/Famicom: A Visual Compendium on Kickstarter (after its return from a DMCA takedown strike back in 2016). I own three different books from ...

Almost a decade after that game launched, however, one of the best examples of that genre ever hit arcades around the world. Launching on April 19, 1996, SNK’s Metal Slug quickly became a favorite ...

Developer Leikir Studio and publisher Dotemu dropped a new video for Metal Slug Tactics, as the team talks about the legacy of the franchise. The video is pretty simple as they speak with team members ...

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From the beginning, the team at France-based Leikir Studio knew it wanted to adapt Metal Slug Tactics into a completely new format rather than make a new one in the same vein as before. “It would have ...

When Leikir Studio CEO Aurélien Loos first pitched the concept of Metal Slug Tactics to Dotemu, he wasn’t entirely certain whether the studio could actually pull it off. A relatively obscure outfit ...

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After years of scattered, piecemeal releases on various home consoles, SNK marks the 10th anniversary of the original Metal Slug by rolling up all seven Metal Slug arcade games into a single package ...

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: ...

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