It was just about 20 years ago that the Vic Viper, the world’s best-known alien-armada-killing single-pilot spacecraft, flew her maiden voyage in the original Gradius. That game is hardly the first ...

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As long as there have been video games, there have been shooters. Spaceships defending the world against alien onslaughts have been a staple since “Space Invaders,” but the genre has fallen out of ...

Back when arcade cabinets still attracted queues of eager gamers, the Gradius series was a titan of the 2D shooter genre. To this day, the various Gradius games, sometimes known under the alternative ...

I'm looking for an amazing shooter. I've never been into these games enough to get hooked. Recently, however, I've gotten the bug for frantic, beautiful gameplay backed up by sexy visuals. I hear ...

Konami’s PS2 classic has been re-released on PSN, as GameCentral offers a retro review of it and the modern state of 2D shooters. We’re not sure exactly what logic publishers use when adding older ...

A PS2 exclusive game has just been removed from the PlayStation Store, and there are no currently no plans for it to return. The PS2 game in question hails from 2004, one of the great years in video ...

Retro-games. Space Invaders and Ikaruga, Monkey Island and Super Monkey Ball, Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64, Game & Watch and Neo-Geo Pocket Color, 1975 and 1999, Pong and Virtua Tennis, Centipede ...

In the days of yore, mastering a game was a true challenge with one-hit deaths and furious amounts of opportunities to be hit with flying objects. Yes, I'm talking about the old-school shooters and of ...

The masters of the shooter were given one of the genre's granddaddy's for their latest project, and from what we can see both the series and developer's legacies will live on. We spent the weekend ...

Somewhere in a darkened, dusty, slightly damp corner of Planet Earth there is a being capable of playing Gradius V the way it is meant to be played. No continues, no pussyfooting about on 'Very Easy' ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Gradius V Gradius V is the fifth entry in Konami’s Gradius series, originally released for PlayStation 2. It introduces new mechanics while retaining core ...