Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I didn’t really know what to expect with Metal Slug Tactics, and I can safely say it shattered any expectations that I may have ...

When Leikir Studio CEO Aurélien Loos first pitched the concept of Metal Slug Tactics to Dotemu, he wasn’t entirely certain whether the studio could actually pull it off. A relatively obscure outfit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. It seems that in recent years that DotEmu has made a real name for ...

Metal Slug Tactics is a much-anticipated take on the SNK run-and-gun arcade classic, bringing turn-based strategy to our heavy machineguns and rocket lawn chairs. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re ...

I was not expecting the Metal Slug franchise to transition to the strategy game genre as well as it did. SNK’s classic action-platformer arcade series is a high-energy, bombastic shoot ’em up perfect ...

A Metal Slug strategy game, Metal Slug Tactics, has been announced – and it's being published by Streets of Rage 4 developer, Dotemu. Shown off at Geoff Keighley's Kickoff Live at Summer Game Fest ...

Metal Slug is returning as a grid-based tactical role-playing game with “roguelike elements,” publisher Dotemu announced during Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. It’s called Metal Slug Tactics, and a ...

In the entire history of videogames, there have only been a few recorded cases of a studio performing the forbidden alchemy of transposing a game into another genre entirely. Until now, the most ...

I love Metal Slug, but when Dotemu and Leikir Studios announced they were turning SNK’s cult classic run-and-gun sidescroller into a turn-based tactics game, I had two responses. They were, in order: ...

It’s not been a great year for tactics games. It looks as though fans of tactics games are in for a bit more disappointment this year. Publisher Dotemu has announced that Metal Slug Tactics won’t make ...

Another day, another game delay. You'll now have to wait until next year to get your hands on Metal Slug Tactics, according to publisher Dotemu and developer Leikir Studio. “Marco, Eri, Fio, and Tarma ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's always been something endearing about Metal Slug. While its contemporaries like Contra ratcheted up the aliens and body horror, Metal Slug ...