Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Did you know it’s been over 20 years since we last got a new 2D side-scrolling action-platformer Ninja Gaiden game? Once the series shifted to 3D hack ‘n’ slash action, it basically never looked back ...

Ninja Gaiden fans are feasting in 2025. In addition to January’s surprise-dropped Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and a proper, long-overdue sequel in Ninja Gaiden 4 coming this fall, there’s a new 2D platformer ...

Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden games are infamous for their difficulty, from the NES era trilogy of punishing side-scrolling action platformers to the modern Team Ninja games. The latest entry in that franchise ...

Back in 1988, ninjas were all the craze. The teenage mutant turtle variety had taken over Saturday morning TV and waves of shoddy martials arts flicks filled the shelves at video stores. They had ...

The game industry has seemingly made 2025 the "year of the ninja" with the release of Assassin's Creed: Shadows and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound earlier in the year, as well as the upcoming Ghost of Yotei ...