My first experience with the Street Fighter series came when I was still a bit young. It was Street Fighter II: Champion Edition on the Super Nintendo. The game had come out only a few months earlier and a buddy of mine had just gotten his hands on a copy. He invited me and another friend to a sleepover at his house, and the three of us stayed up all night playing it. We were all new to fighting games, so we spent hours passing the controllers around, taking turns obsessively battling it out in order to learn the basics and familiarize ourselves with the characters. It was quite a lot of fun.

Over the next several years, I kept playing different versions of Street Fighter II (Hyper, Arcade). Eventually, I picked up my very own copy of Super Street Fighter II (The New Challengers) for the Sega Genesis. I appreciated being able to play with some newer characters, particularly Dee Jay and Cammy. Even though I enjoyed spending a lot of time with all of the various iterations of Street Fighter II, I eventually grew weary of game's limitations and moved on to other, more interesting fighting games, such as Virtua Fighter 1 & 2, and SoulCalibur.

Then in December of 2000, my interest in Street Fighter was rekindled. I was home from college for the holidays and browsing around the local Media Play store for potential Christmas gifts. My brother and I had spent most of that summer playing the hell out of his new Sega Dreamcast so I decided to hit the games section to see if I could find any possibilities there. I happened across a marked-down copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3. Neither of us had ever owned a PlayStation or Saturn so we weren't very familiar with the Alpha series. I decided to take a gamble anyway.

When he unwrapped the gift on Christmas morning, I explained to him that I had picked it out because of our prior shared enthusiasm for my Genesis copy of Super Street Fighter II. He looked at it approvingly and agreed to give it a shot. Later that day, we fired it up and inadvertently ignited what would become a life-long passion for all things Street Fighter.

After 3 years in development, the highly-anticipated spiritual successor to Capcom's famous blue bomber has finally arrived. While not quite living up to the mega-hype of its predecessor, Mighty No 9 does manage to exist as a pretty decent action platformer in its own right. As long as you know ahead of time not to go in expecting Mega Man 2.0, you might just come away satisfied with the experience.

Also out this week, a new variant of the classic formula, Pac-Man 256, a very cool-looking (and completely free) fan-made Half-Life game called Transmissions -Element 120-, and Drawful 2, a drawing-based party game from Jackbox Games. Get mighty, then jump past the break to see more of this fortnight's new releases.

More news out of E3 2016. Nintendo aired their live video presentation yesterday and it was unfortunately quite pathetic. They only had two games to show off. Two. One for each of the two game systems they are currently "supporting". And one of those games won't even be released until some time next year.

The way Nintendo has been struggling as of late, it's somewhat difficult to imagine that they were once the undisputed king of the gaming landscape. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. One wonders why they even bothered presenting anything for E3 this year (or just how long they can manage to sustain interest in their products in the face of such a significantly apparent lack of effort on their part).

At least one of the two games they showed was The Legend of Zelda (even though it's the same game they've already been teasing fans with for the last two years). This year they did finally confirm the title though, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We also got to see some new gameplay elements such as horse wrangling, wall climbing, grass burning and food crafting. The game kind of looks to be a mixture of Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, The Elder Scrolls, and the Zelda universe (which sounds pretty fantastic, actually).

​In case you missed their presentation, you can check out the trailer after the break. It's pretty much all they have to offer you right now.

And E3 continues. Sony held their annual press event last night and they had plenty to show. One of the more interesting surprises had to be Resident Evil VII: Biohazard.

Fans haven't been certain whether Capcom would continue on with another sequel or just reboot the franchise after the slight misstep that was RE6. Based on the reveal, it appears that they decided to forge ahead with the next chapter, though this game does look like somewhat of a change in direction for the series. See for yourself by watching the official trailer after the break. (Or, PlayStation Plus members can go download a free demo to actually see how it plays.)

Well, it's that time of year again. E3 is upon us once more and in full swing. EA kicked things off yesterday with their pre-show press conference, where they showed off the highly-anticipated sequel to the well-received 2014 PC and Xbox hit, Titanfall.

Titanfall 2 looks to expand on the original in some pretty significant ways. Firstly, they've added a campaign mode (which was sadly missing in action with the first game). Secondly, the game will be arriving on PlayStation 4 as well as Xbox and PC this time around. And lastly, grappling hooks! Just do yourself a favor and watch the official multiplayer trailer after the break (if you haven't seen it already). (If you have, well...may as well watch it again, right?)

It's been 3 long weeks since the last great Steam title was released. Sad. Sure, there have been plenty of decent ones, but nothing really worth posting about. Luckily that changed this week with the arrival of SteamWorld Heist. As mentioned earlier this week, SteamWorld Heist is a port of our 2015 3DS game of the year. A semi-sequel to 2013's fairly well-received SteamWorld Dig, Heist is an incredibly fun gun-toting turn-based strategy game. If you've been holding out recently for something really special to play, your wait is now over.

Also out in the past few weeks, Total War: Warhammer, a cute and amusing little shoot 'em up from the Neo Geo called Twinkle Star Sprites, and the second game in the ninja beat 'em up Senran Kagura series, Shinovi Versus. Recruit your crew and go let off some steam, then jump past the break to see more new releases from the past 3 weeks.

Nintendo fans rejoice! A new Kirby game came out this week! And Kirby: Planet Robobot is so much more than your average Kirby game, it's your average Kirby game...with mechs! Transforming mechs, no less! If that doesn't sound completely rad to you, you either don't love Kirby or don't love mechs (and it should go without saying that in either case, you don't love fun).

​Also out in the past two weeks, a pair of Nintendo 1DS Virtual Console releases, and a fairly well-received fantasy point-and-click adventure game. Suit up and kick some bot, Kirby style, then jump past the break to see more of this fortnight's new releases.

No PlayStation Store update last week due to nothing incredibly groundbreaking coming out. This week featured several hot releases, thankfully. Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- is probably the standout.

The newest release in the fantastic arcade fighting series, Revelator is a minor update to 2014's Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-. Like that game, Revelator features cross-platform online play between the PlayStation 3 and 4 versions of the game. Unlike that game, the PS4 version of Revelator also features (quite welcome) legacy support for PS3 arcade sticks. In addition, three extra characters join the roster (as well as three more via DLC).

Also out this week, a PS4 port of our 2015 3DS game of the year, a remake of one of 2007's best PS2 games, and a PS4 port of the PS2 version of one of 2005's best games. The classics abound this week. Jump past the break to see more of this fortnight's new releases.