Welcome to a new look launch for the internet’s 173rd favourite fighting game site - High Voltage Online!

Last seen on the 25th May, 2004 under the name Higher Voltage, we’ve languished for almost two years now, spending the time arguing on the forums and little else. The colossal failure of once-proud leader Redranger (now a hated exile) to produce anything of note, his subsequent total disappearance from the internet taking the front door keys with him creating a period of confusion, frustration and world-beating apathy that have all combined to create a losing streak of immense proportions, one that could have all been avoided with a bit of hindsight.

But never mind.

After such aching chasms of time, relaunching as “Higher Voltage 5″ seemed pointless - as if anyone would remember number four! As if anyone has sat there checking the front page daily for the last 700-odd days (although if you were, we fucking love you, man) So we decided that a rebranding was in order, a fresh start and a chance to pay tribute to our forefathers (although Gavok has five) who slaved away, uploading words of wisdom on 28.8kbps modems and carving insulting homophobic slogans onto tablets of granite with Mammoth tusks.

So yes, Higher Voltage is dead (rest in peace, you most awkward to enunciate piece of shit) - long live High Voltage Online!

Sincere apologies to all those who loved using the term ‘HerV’ and ‘HerVerts’ but your day is done. Sharper-eyed witty types amongst you will notice we’ve inserted an all-new pun into the title, and we’re sure you’ll be able to use that to come up with something ‘positive.’

So now, powered by a once-considered-impossible combination of Higher Voltage staffers, Fighters.net curmudgeons and assorted dandy artist/coding types in the boiler room, we return, prettier, stronger and more irresponsible than ever before. The fighting game genre may well be putrefying in an open grave, some of the staff may be careening terrifyingly towards their thirties and the internet may be fatter, stupider and more depressing than ever before, but we just honestly don’t give a shit. As long as the simple joys of a digital crack to an electronic jaw and a cathode-ray flash of polygon thigh remain tantalising, thrilling and invigorating then we’re going to keep on doing what we love regardless, and we hope you’ll be there to join us, whether you’re a bright-eyed new kid or a jaded game-hating cyber-queen.

So when you’re done browsing the review archives, meeting the staff, reading the articles and checking out the happenings in the revamped and extraordinarily pretty New Eleet Speek, you’ll probably be wondering, hand on hip, whether it was all really worth waiting two complete solar revolutions for. We hope you’ll agree with us that it wasn’t, but that you’ll probably stick around anyway.

Hugs and kisses,

EvilNeil
Obijay
DYLE
Bonertown
Gavok
ROFLTRAVOLTA
CKA