{"id":1155552,"date":"2023-06-29T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1155552"},"modified":"2023-06-29T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:00:37","slug":"its-a-good-time-to-be-a-fighting-game-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1155552","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a good time to be a fighting-game fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video games have been competitive for as long as people could land their three-character initials on a digital scoreboard. The fighting game genre got its start in the 1970s, but it was when <em>Street Fighter 2<\/em> hit the arcades in the &#8217;90s that the genre would ascend to a whole new level. Since then, many groundbreaking series have graced the genre, such as Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Super Smash Bros. and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While fighting games may never have the same mass-market appeal they did in the &#8217;90s, 2023 is proving to be a mini-rennaisance for the genre. We&#8217;ve already had <em>Street Fighter 6<\/em>, <em>Mortal Kombat 1 <\/em>is arriving this fall, and there&#8217;s <em>Tekken 8 <\/em>still to come. That&#8217;s without mentioning the upcoming reboot of <em>Dead or Alive <\/em>or Riot Games&#8217; <em>League of Legends<\/em> spin-off Project L. It&#8217;s a good time to be a fighting game fan \u2014 watch the video below for the full story.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"0cd9d2fae94349978f417b063d458f25\">\n<div style=\"left:0;width:100%;height:0;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\" \/><\/div>\n<p \/>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/its-a-good-time-to-be-a-fighting-game-fan-130037581.html?src=rss&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Engadget &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/its-a-good-time-to-be-a-fighting-game-fan-130037581.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s a good time to be a fighting-game fan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games have been competitive for as long as people could land their three-character initials on a digital scoreboard. The fighting game genre got its start in the 1970s, but it was when Street Fighter 2 hit the arcades in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1155552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1155552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}