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Squigly is Heading to 'Skullgirls Mobile', Check Out Our Exclusive Gameplay Gifs of Her in Action



Fighting games have been split into two distinct camps on mobile. On one side there's the traditional fighting game that offers free movement of characters and pretty much behaves like a fighting game on other platforms by using a bunch of virtual buttons to approximate physical controls. Then there's what I've come to call "swipe fighters" which take most of the mechanics of a normal fighting game but streamline them to be conducive to taps and swiping gestures on the touchscreen. The traditional-style fighting games have found a small but passionate audience on mobile, with Street Fighter IV CE being the best example of that version done right. However, the swipe fighters have been the ones to break into the mainstream of the mobile market, with games like Marvel: Contest of Champions and Injustice 2, among many others, amassing millions of active players and raking in money hand over fist. There's a problem though. While lots of fighting game fans may appreciate something like Street Fighter IV CE, they may not get on too well with virtual buttons, or may not care for having to buy an expensive controller to get the physical controls they desire. Those same people might get along much better with the swipe-based controls of the streamlined fighters, but in most instances all of those games leave out a lot of the elements of a regular fighting game that makes people love fighters in the first place, and so they can't quite scratch the same sort of itch. I'm sor...
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