It’s every fighting-game player’s worst nightmare. Online hecklers trash those who suffer it. People don’t enter tournaments for fear of it: getting mauled in a tournament stream with thousands of your peers watching you online. It’s the virtual version of …
Last month, I asked the community to examine the controls of their games and their effectiveness for the Total Control Bitmob Writing Challenge. Four writers submitted their takes on both classic and modern titles, and all of these pieces made …
This month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge on game controls is due by Sunday, September 30. You can read the rules here, and now I'm going to share an example piece focusing on Persona 4 Arena. Those who have grown partial to …
It’s somewhat fitting that was I was having trouble writing an introduction for a Bitmob Writing Challenge roundup about crafting five different openings for a piece. The beginning of your article sets the tone for the rest of your work, …
Not all World Warriors are created equal. The Street Fighter series may have revolutionized fighting games with its diverse cast of characters, but making sure that they all have a chance against each other is an arduous balancing act. Whenever …
Fun for newcomers and veterans alike, the Bitmob Writing Challenge asks our community to write about a specific topic every month. Now is the time, however, for you to get a grip on reality – virtual reality.
Immersion is vital …
Fighting-game stories were once just a flimsy pretense for having a bunch of colorful people beat each other up, but now they have become a selling point. The recent Mortal Kombat reboot garnered rave reviews for its cinematic narrative that …
This month, I’ve asked the Bitmob community to dig deep and come up with five different introductions for one of their articles as part of the Bitmob Writing Challenge. In case you missed the rules the first time, here they …
I remember watching the finals for the Street Fighter X Tekken tournament at Community Effort Orlando 2012, the largest fighting-game event in Florida. Unlike the most of the other competitions at the event, it wrapped up on Saturday night instead …
Video games and education have had a complex relationship, and I asked the Bitmob community to write about them for last month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge. These five entries cover a range of topics such as the true success of a …
Each month, the Bitmob Writing Challenge offers both old and new community members a chance to write on a specific topic. If you find this introduction a bit bland, then that’s what I want to hear — this month we’re …
Last month, I challenged this website's community to write about marketing practices in video games as part of the Bitmob Writing Challenge. My sales pitch was a success, as five people turned in great articles, and most of them appeared …
The Bitmob Writing Challenge helps both new writers and veterans come up with article ideas. While school may be out for the summer, it’s never far from the minds of people. Education plays a vital role in creating a well-informed …
While I’m nowhere near the level of the best fighting-game players in the world, I’d like to believe that I am a somewhat knowledgeable and decent competitor. I enjoy going into training mode and trying different techniques out. I wrote …
Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 8 (UFGT8 for short) is different from other events. Hosted by Shoryuken.com’s Adam “Keits” Heart, the competition has an array of special features besides the usual weekend of non-stop battles. Visitors can participate in a mystery …
The Bitmob Writing Challenge is a monthly prompt we host to help both new and veteran writers generate interesting articles and look at the game industry from different ways. I took a break last month following the drawing-based Cartoon Opinion …
Ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to the results for last month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge. For the Cartoon Opinion prompt, we took a break from article writing to stretch our creative muscles in the field of political cartoons. Our community members took …
Full disclosure: I received a download code for Skullgirls from Autumn Games for the purposes of a GamesBeat review. You can read my take on this game here.
Fighting games are like tennis: It's fun to play one-on-one, but some …
This month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge asks our community members to draw a political cartoon about a particular gaming issue. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to provide examples for the Cartoon Opinion prompt to help generate ideas until now. Because of this, …
Normally, the Bitmob Writing Challenge asks community members to write an article about a specific topic every month. Today, however, we’re heading back to the drawing board for the first time in over a year.
Most people have seen political …
Video games have grown from a small-time scene to a billion-dollar industry with profits that rival television, movies, and music. But like a paranoid youngest child, we always fret about what our siblings think of us, and we question our …
Street Fighter X Tekken's controversial Gem System has overshadowed a lot of the positive things the 2-D fighter does. The tag-team battles between the two most-popular franchises in the genre are fun. The gameplay feels closer to classic fighters …
The Bitmob Writing Challenge gives new and veteran community members a chance to create an article based on a specific topic. This month, we’re going to discuss how games have been represented in the outside world and how we have …
Money may be the root of all evil, but that didn’t disqualify it from becoming a topic for last month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge. Our community members sat in their virtual high-rises and pondered the economic systems of role-playing games, speculated …
No, you're not living in 2003 again. This is an example article for this month's Coins and Sense Bitmob Writing Challenge. We have already received several articles about video-game currency, item creation, and economies, but I wanted to demonstrate how …
I'm upset that I didn't create an example piece for last month's Bitmob Writing Challenge, which was to analyze the themes of a specific game as one would with a book, poem, song, or movie. Fortunately, that didn’t stop the …
The Bitmob Writing Challenge encourages community members new and old to submit an article based on a specific topic. We had a very successful prompt last month, and I will post a roundup of the entries soon. But for now, …
Namco Bandai’s Soul Calibur series is my favorite 3D fighter, but this sword contest has a reputation for rewarding button mashing. This is understandable: Each character have around a hundred attacks that hit in a variety of ways and may …
The Bitmob Writing Challenge is entering its third year, and its mission is to help our community members come up with unique topics and hone their craft. These prompts can be useful to both new writers and veterans.
I recently …
Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition Version 2012 is the fourth version of Street Fighter 4 in as many years. It has no new characters, and the developer’s notes read like a foreign language even to other gamers. But even …
Full disclosure: Publisher Atlus provided me a copy of The King of Fighters 13.
The King of Fighters series may be obscure to folks raised on Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, but people know when they become fans. They aren't …
Semi-regular upgrades have once again become a way of life for fighting-game players. I regularly pay for the latest versions of today's brawlers while others sneer that the developer will just release the same thing with minute changes next year. …
Sky Sanctuary is better than I remember it.
The Sonic & Knuckles stage is reimagined as an ivory mausoleum in Sonic Generations, the video-game equivalent of a greatest hits album for Sega’s mascot. I bounce across clouds to dreamlike …
Every day someone endures the tragedy of a bad game. Somehow developers with good intentions commit sins like bland level design, poorly thought-out gimmicks, and frustrating boss fights. We at the Bitmob Writing Challenge asked our community to report the …
Street Fighter X Tekken is a dream come true for fighting-game fans: They’ll be able to play as warriors from the two most-popular franchises in the genre, create crazy tag combos, and get a power boost for taking two fireballs …
This is the example piece for the October 2011 Bitmob Writing Challenge, called Levels of Shame. If you have been traumatized by a bad game, write about how terrible a particular level, puzzle, or boss fight is and post an …
We have all played a bad game at some point in our lives. Not an average game. Not a game that failed to live up to the hype. A terrible game. The Bitmob Writing Challenge encourages our community members to …
Welcome to South Town, USA!
You may have heard of our fair city from the depictions you’ve seen of it in the Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and The King of Fighters series of games. Those titles depict …
Back when I first joined Bitmob in 2009, I wanted to wait until after I “made it” as a writer before making a Meet the Mob post. Being an on-staff moderator who has written over 70 articles certainly counts in …
One Christmas a decade ago, my brother opened a box-shaped gift hoping that it was Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the Sega Dreamcast. It turned out he got Street Fighter 3: Third Strike by mistake. He was disappointed, but I …
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