Despite Sega's acknowledgment of its existence and known plans to revive legacy franchises, little could have prepared fans for the reveal of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. The first new Shinobi game ...

With three 'Ninja Gaiden' games, 'Ghost of Yotei,' and 'Shinobi,' ninjas returned to the gaming forefront in a big way.

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. All of a sudden, and all at once, the entire industry seems to have come to a realization: Ninjas are cool. There have been a smattering of recent ...

Four decades of ninja representation made 2025 a year of shuriken and shadows ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. You spend years waiting for a new 2D action platformer starring ninjas to come along, and then two show up within a month of each other. Both Ninja ...

I didn’t expect one of the best low-key rivalries in gaming to make a comeback in 2025, but here we are. Both Sega’s Shinobi and Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden are getting 2D retro revivals this year, they ...

Coming out of Summer Game Fest, Lizardcube’s Shinobi: Art of Vengeance was one of the games that was high on our list, just based on the sample size we got to experience. After playing the game in ...

"Shinobi" was originally created for Japanese arcades in 1987 and features a ninja character who fights to stop a criminal organisation that kidnaps child ninjas ...

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 ...