Check Out The Awesome Retro Combat Of ‘The Showdown Effect’

August 1, 2012Erik Kain

Paradox Interactive describes its upcoming “2.5D” multiplayer combat game, The Showdown Effect, as a “multiplayer action game inspired by 80’s and 90’s action movies where champions from different eras of time fight to the death, for fun, for glory and for awesome.” And it does look awesome, both as a platformer and as a combat […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.