GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It was just about 20 years ago that the Vic Viper, the world's best-known alien-armada-killing single-pilot spacecraft, flew her maiden voyage in the ...

To understand how it ends, first you must go back to the beginning. Gradius was born from the 80s post-Space Invaders gold rush, created by a team within Konami's Osaka headquarters headed up by the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Alien swarms and galactic scourges everywhere live in fear of the Vic Viper, and for good reason. This noble, lone starfighter has a long and ...

As long as there have been video games, there have been shooters. Spaceships defending the world against alien onslaughts have been a staple since “Space Invaders,” but the genre has fallen out of ...

Konami’s PS2 classic has been re-released on PSN, as GameCentral offers a retro review of it and the modern state of 2D shooters. We’re not sure exactly what logic publishers use when adding older ...

Classic shoot-'em-up Gradius 5 will be re-released today for PlayStation 3, publisher Konami has announced. Eurogamer's Martin Robinson just got very excited. The game will launch as a digital ...

Initially released on the PlayStation 2 in 2004, Gradius V may soon be making an appearance on the PlayStation 3, assuming a new ESRB rating is to be believed. The rating - "T for Teen" with "Mild ...

I'm looking for an amazing shooter. I've never been into these games enough to get hooked. Recently, however, I've gotten the bug for frantic, beautiful gameplay backed up by sexy visuals.<BR><BR>I ...

Gradius V by comparison is much more reflex- and reaction-dependant.<br><br>In short, if you already like shooters like Ikaruga, R-Type Final, Silpheed, etc., Gradius V will probably get a lot of ...

In the days of yore, mastering a game was a true challenge with one-hit deaths and furious amounts of opportunities to be hit with flying objects. Yes, I'm talking about the old-school shooters and of ...

The masters of the shooter were given one of the genre's granddaddy's for their latest project, and from what we can see both the series and developer's legacies will live on. We spent the weekend ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Gradius V Gradius V is the fifth entry in Konami’s Gradius series, originally released for PlayStation 2. It introduces new mechanics while retaining core ...