Even though they'll finish the game in a hurry, fans of the Contra series should by all means play Contra: Shattered Soldier. There's no denying that Konami's Contra is a classic. First released in ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Fans of classic gaming were overjoyed when Konami announced earlier this year that it was bringing the Contra series to the PlayStation 2. The ...

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Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Side-scrolling PS2 classic Contra: Shattered Soldier will release in this week's North American PlayStation Store update. According to the PlayStation Blog, two-player co-op has survived the port ...

Contra is back with a new entry that’s coming exclusively to mobile devices. On Monday, Konami announced Contra Returns, a new take on the side-scrolling run-and-gun series that’s coming on July 26.

The latest instalment in the legendary Contra series is coming to more countries including the US. Contra Returns — a free-to-play mobile game jointly created by Konami and Tencent's TiMi Studios back ...

Contra is the videogame equivalent of those wire-buzzer games you used to get at school fetes. You remember the ones. You had a little metal ring on a stick, like a needle with its eye opened wide ...

After holding a ten game poll throughout the last week asking our readers what game they'd like to see covered IGNPSQ, a solid 35% of you said that you wanted to know more about Contra: Shattered ...

Though Contra: Shattered Soldier has already made it to retail in the states, followers of the game may be interested in a Contra web-comic beginning serialization today on the Konami TYO webpage. It ...

Continuing the non-stop excitement of the original NES and Super NES games, Contra: Shattered Soldier offers a mix of 2D and 3D shoot 'em up action, as one or two players battle their way through a ...

Nostalgia is a powerful sales tool, and the people from Konami thought I would be very excited about Contra: Shattered Soldier, a sequel to the 1987 video game Contra. And when they told me that a ...