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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Is Somehow Coming To Both Switch And Switch 2
31.7.2025
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is effectively Budokai Tenkaichi 4, bringing the hit manga and anime to modern consoles with better graphics and fresh levels of fan service. It seemed like only a matter of time before it arrived on Switch 2, but I didn’t expect to see it on Nintendo’s older hardware...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Is Almost Certainly Coming To Switch 2
28.4.2025
The Nintendo Wii was the best place to play Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, so its only fitting that its successor would eventually land back on a Nintendo console. It now seems all but inevitable that Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, one of the biggest games of last year, will arrive on Switch 2...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Fans Are In Love Again After A Surprise Update Addresses A Ton Of Complaints
12.12.2024
The vibes in the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero community have been absolutely rancid lately, but a huge free update has just changed that. The 3D arena fighter’s latest patch fixes a ton of broken mechanics and OP abilities that were ruining the game’s ranked mode. Even more importantly, local...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero: How To Survive Online Play
10.12.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has a ton of offline content to enjoy between its Episode Battles and player-made Custom Battles. But playing online is a different beast altogether. You’re bound to see more variance playing against people than you will against CPU, not to mention some prevalent metas...
Blink And You Might Miss This Returning Attack In Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero
2.12.2024
After a seventeen-year gap since the last entry in the Budokai Tenkaichi series, you might think Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a much different game. While it certainly has plenty of new characters and fresh features to spruce things up, there are many returning mechanics from previos games. The...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Doesn’t Explain Battle Assist Settings, So We Did
30.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a fun time, but the flashy combos and quick-time events can bump up the intensity. Although you can’t make the latter easier, the game does have an incredible selection of features called Battle Assists to make the general gameplay more approachable. There is one major...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Broly's Ring Is Majorly Glitched
25.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s massive 180+ character roster isn’t exactly balanced, which fans are admittedly happy with. Helping to offset (or further expand) these differences are various Ability Items that provide characters with helpful buffs. One of, if not the rarest Ability Item is called...
Jiren's Endings In Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Are Confusing Everyone
24.10.2024
Episode Battle, the story mode of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, briskly glides through various sagas of the franchise. While it’s fun to revisit these iconic fights against giant space apes and gods, all from different character viewpoints, it’s more exciting to check out the unique alternate...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, As Told By Steam Reviews
23.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has been out for a few weeks now and it seems to be going over well with fans, who’ve been waiting a very long time for a new fighting game based on the hugely popular anime. The recently released fighter is the first installment in the long-dormant Budokai Tenkaichi...
I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
20.10.2024
I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wasn’t going to continue watching because...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Is About To Nerf One Of Its Most OP Fighters
18.10.2024
The Bean Daddy had a good run. After a week of terrorizing Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero players through his infinite bag of health-restoring Senzu beans, Yajirobe will have his stats evaluated in an upcoming balance patch, Bandai Namco confirmed. That suggests an all-but-certain nerf for the cowardly...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Five Epic And Exciting Games We’re Getting Lost In
11.10.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio and Dragon Ball Z: Sparking Zero are out this week, so many of you are probably set for video games to play this weekend (and beyond). But if you’re not a fan of social sim RPGs or Dragon Ball, you might be lacking a piping hot new release to play with your precious downtime....
Here’s How To Unlock Every Character On The Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Roster
11.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero features a massive roster, with over 180 playable characters. But just like some other entries in this series, you don’t have access to them all at the start. There’s a bunch of ways to unlock them in the game, and we’ve broken them all down.Read more
Struggling With Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Great Ape Vegeta? We've Got You
10.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a lovingly crafted tribute to the iconic franchise, its myriad of characters, and exciting attacks whose names need to be shouted. It’s a tribute so accurate that seemingly every player has been quickly stumped by Great Ape Vegeta, the most threatening villain during...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's 'Bean Daddies' Are Using Yajirobe To Destroy Everyone
10.10.2024
Yajirobe is a samurai who loves running away from fights and is generally useless except for when he’s giving Goku health-restoring Senzu beans or slicing off Vegeta’s tail. Now the “bean daddy” (not that guy) is destroying players in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and being accused of breaking...
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero’s Great Ape Vegeta Fight Is Kicking Everyone’s Ass
8.10.2024
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero officially comes out later this week, but thanks to an early access period, a slew of players have been jumping into the game ahead of time. From the sounds of it, the newest DBZ title, which returns to the long-dormant Budokai Tenkaichi sub-series of arena fighters, is...
Dragon Ball :Sparking Zero Previews Suggest That We Are So Back, Y’all
19.9.2024
The passing of legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama earlier this year forced me to weigh the importance of his work in my life. After all, my older brother had all but forced Saturday morning cartoons on me, including anime like Dragon Ball and its successors, Z and GT. But it goes beyond even...
The Latest Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Trailer Has Shocked Fans In The Best Way
12.9.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which remains Budokai Tenkaichi 4 in the hearts and minds of many diehard fans, continues to reveal more characters in its massive starting roster ahead of the fighting game’s October 11 launch. The latest batch is particularly noteworthy, however, offering something...
Hands-On With Star Wars Outlaws, Weighing In On Dragon Age Discourse, And More Takes For The Week
15.6.2024
With Kotaku in attendance at last week’s Summer Game Fest, we got to go hands-on with some of the biggest games on the horizon. Read on for our impressions of Star Wars Outlaws, Horizon Lego Adventures, and the delightful-looking Astro Bot, among other games. We’ve also got an early look at one...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Hands-On: Shaping Up To Be The Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Sequel Fans Deserve
13.6.2024
Fans have been waiting 17 years for a sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, a PS2 and Wii-era arena fighter that celebrated the beloved anime with a story mode that retold all of its biggest moments, a massive roster full of iconic characters and deep cuts alike, and spectacle-fueled...