There's no more perfect a marriage between side-scrolling beat 'em up and IP in our mind, and after Bitmap Bureau's ...

These six beat 'em ups on the PlayStation 1 were a blast back in the day, and are still quite fun to go back to.

The Sega Genesis has some great beat 'em ups, but these five classics take the cake as the best on the system.

Sidescrolling beat ‘em up games were one of the defining arcade genres of the late 80s, early 90s. Whether you were huddled around the darkened screen of your local arcade or assaulted by noise and ...

Become Art the Clown, the sinister and unpredictable villain from the Terrifier series, as you unleash chaos across a variety of locations. Each stage is a movie set where a film about Art is being ...

It's giveaway time on the Epic Games Store again. The latest promotion is taking over from last week's Cat Quest II freebie. Following the refresh, PC gamers can now claim River City Girls as their ...

Development studios Guard Crush and Supamonks have partnered with Gamera Games and Dotemu to announce a brand-new game called Absolum. This is an action RPG meshed with the genre these folks know best ...

The once-adorable world of FULL STEAM: Fluffy X Machina is being taken over by the evil, greedy and environmentally unfriendly megacorporation Krok Inc. and its army of diesel powered, A.I-controlled ...

While the genre isn't as prolific as it once was, beat-'em-ups still tend to follow in the mold of Final Fight and Streets of Rage: You're a muscle-bound mayor or a martial arts expert or occasionally ...

Simple mechanics, satisfying action, and a pocket full of quarters. The beat ’em up genre defined arcade gaming for a generation. From ’90s classics to modern masterpieces, we’re counting down the ten ...

Publisher Justdan International and developer YOHCAN will release side-scrolling beat ’em up game QUIT TODAY for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on October 22 for $11.99, the companies ...

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, credited as one of the main pioneers of the beat ’em up genre, has died aged 64.