Zen Studios’ latest title KickBeat has arrived on the PlayStation 4 and the Wii U this week in Special Edition form. How does it fare in a world of gaming that has largely moved away from the genre of ...

Kickbeat began as a PS3 game, and as the Vita version took center stage Zen was quietly still making PS3 assets, according to creative director Neil Sorens. "We actually started development on ...

As a modern rhythm game that doesn’t involve dancing but does appear on the PlayStation Vita, KickBeat is practically a unicorn – a glossy, kung fu-themed unicorn that challenges players beat up bad ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Zen Studios is best known for Pinball FX2, but this week they released two totally different ...

After debuting on the PS Vita months ago, Zen Studios’ kung fu-themed rhythm fighter KickBeat has finally landed on Steam. The discrete, one-song-at-a-time setup arguably makes a lot more sense on ...

Zen Studios, the mind behind the popular Zen Pinball games, has been keeping secrets from us. For one, apparently it's an industrial electronic dance music fan. It also appears Zen Studios has known ...

Zen Studios' KickBeat is a PS Vita and PS3 rhythm game with its own personality. Rather than package the timing-based gameplay simply with musically informed button presses, Zen Studios packages the ...

At first I was worried that a few hurdles would stand in the way of me enjoying KickBeat. The art style wasn’t quite my cup of tea, the circling aggressors as input markers felt visually messy, and ...

The combat-oriented premise is certainly novel (unless you count certain sections of PaRappa the Rapper), but claiming KickBeat combines rhythm and fighting games is slightly misleading. Your rhythmic ...

This week the developers at Zen Studios have made clear their intent to bring their biggest games from the previous generation to the next. This includes KickBeat – Special Edition as well as ...