Picture the scene: it's the turn of the millennium and the biggest video game brawlers are beginning another term at Fight School. Swatty Streetfighter is still the teacher's pet; Tekken is busy beating up the new kids and Dead Or Alive is being its usual pervy self behind the bike sheds. And then there's the eccentric loner - and that would be DarkStalkers. None other than the quirky cousin of Streetfighter, it may not have garnered the same level of notoriety, but then, the real mavericks always were too cool for school. The PSP's 2005 launch saw a remarkably unlikely return to centre stage for a series that had been largely dormant for six years. ...  Read the complete review

While it hasn’t ever been one of the company’s more famous or successful franchises, for some reason Capcom opted to open it’s PSP account not with an entry into one of it’s world-famous Resident Evil or Streetfighter franchises, but instead a Darkstalkers game, and one with a real mouthful of a title at that. Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower was one of the handheld console’s launch titles, and was it’s sole fighting game release upon launch, so naturally it was one of my first games for the machine. For those of you, and let’s face it there are a few, who’ve never heard of the Darkstalkers series, a brief explanation may be in order. In the peak of ...  Read the complete review