While the original R-Type offers more precise action, R-Type III has bigger boss fights, better graphics, and a more forgiving learning curve. The side-scrolling space shooter certainly seems to be ...

Like a Pokemon that hit itself in confusion, my mind was a bit of a mess as I started playing R-Type Final 3 Evolved. See, the game’s opening sequence starts out exactly just like R-Type Final 2. I ...

Kazuma Kujo is taking up the role of game designer once more, while Goro Matsuo, another former Irem employee, will be the producer of the title. According to Kujo, he had originally thought he had ...

R-Type's one of my favorite shooters. It was also a pretty challenging one at that, and a game unlike any I've ever played before. R-Type Final is the fifth and last game in the franchise, drawing ...

Tomas Franzese is a News Editor at DualShockers, writing a variety of reviews and shedding light on upcoming games for both PC and consoles. While he has been a gamer most of his life, he began ...

Mohamed from Egypt has been covering Japanese and indie games for more than 5 years for local and international outlets. He is very interested in the Japanese language and culture, and is a long term ...

In what is already the weirdest thing we've seen in 2025 (two days in), someone decided to make a parody version of R-Type featuring the cartoon strip Garfield. Simply called Gar-Type, this is a ...

R-Type wasn’t supposed to come back. When the studio behind it, Irem, released R-Type Final in the early 2000s, it meant the name literally. Final was supposed to be the last proper game in the ...

Third Person Shooters Arc Raiders was going to be a cross "between Shadow of the Colossus, Left 4 Dead, and PUBG" according to dev, who says Embark initially had no idea "what kind of game loop we ...

Ah, yes the 1980s. The decade that brought us oversized blazers, poofy Aqua Net hair and a certain side-scrolling shoot-em-up known as R-Type. Chronicling the struggle between humanity and the ...