Our Retro DNA-themed SNK 8-week tribute continues. Check out the links below for our previous features.  Hail To The King (Of Fighters) The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Art of Shinkiro Why The Neo Geo Was Successful Every time a new fighting game crops up, you can be sure that it h

We can't have a continuous SNK retrospective leading up to Retro DNA's showcase this October without doing a King of Fighters article now, can we? Ask and you shall receive.  Here are the past SNK retrospectives:  Why The Neo Geo Was Successful The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Ar

It's now week 3 of our SNK retrospective where we publish SNK/Neo Geo articles for a span of 8 weeks. We are teaming up with Retro DNA to bring you these features. Check out our previous entries below: Why SNK's Neo Geo Was Popular The Top 15 SNK Games You Need To Play Before You Die When you think SNK box art and

From this mid-August until mid-October, we'll be releasing an SNK-themed retrospective per week as part of our tribute to SNK's 40th anniversary. This is in conjunction with the folks at Retro DNA & Versus City.  When you think the arcades and the 90s, what do you remember? Street Fighter? The King of Fighters?

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of SNK, Kakuchopurei and Retro DNA are teaming up to publish a series of weekly features about SNK, the Neo Geo, and its slew of first-party titles. This one's a personal OP ED piece to get the ball rolling. I remember browsing through a copy of EGM back in Malaysia at the Indian-owne

It's great to be an SNK fan, seeing that it's the company's 40th anniversary this year. And what could be better than an opportunity for SNK to create a long craved-for sequel to a fighting game if fans showed their support? According to a One Million Power translated piece of a recent Famitsu interview (via ResetE

We really have no words for this. SNK revealed one more new character in their casual-savvy tag-team fighting game SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. And it's a gender-swapped version of Terry Bogard, arguably SNK's most recognizable mascot next to Iori, Marco, and Haohmaru. The trailer below shows off his moves, ranging f

Retro-gaming fans who own a Nintendo Switch: the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will be out on 13th November and will feature a ton of old 80s SNK classics. Check out the full list below: Alpha Mission Athena Crystalis Ikari Warriors Victory Road Ikari III: The Rescue Guerilla War P.O.W Prehistoric Isle

Following SNK's King of Fighters exhibition a while back, the company is now expanding into the temporary themed cafe business. If you don't mind taking a trip down to Japan from today onwards, that is. SNK is teaming up with the Japanese Princess Cafe to launch a bunch of KOF themed cafes from May 11 onwards in Tokyo

Update: It's missing just one. The SNK Neo Geo Mini presentation on 9 June listed Twinkle Star Sprites as one of its titles. Windjammers is still missing though.  We at Kakuchopurei are stoked for the Neo Geo Mini. SNK is doing good by jumping onto the tiny retro console bandwagon since it had a huge backlog of

SNK has yet to make its Neo Geo Mini reveal official, but we're getting one anyway from an unlikely source. According to YouTube channel Spawn Wave, the SNK Neo Geo Mini looks something like this: Your eyes aren't deceiving you; it's basically a custom-made tiny arcade cabinet with the lovely colours of the Neo Geo

SNK has released more info about its upcoming 2025 2D fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. The upcoming sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolves back in 1999 will be bringing back a bunch of old systems and mechanics, as well as add in new ones. Let's break them down. Old systems from Fatal Fury titles: Combi

At the end of the SNK World Championship 2023 tournament featuring The King of Fighters XV, SNK unleashed a nice surprise for fighting game fans: the first-ever gameplay reveal of its upcoming 2D fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. At least, more than 30 seconds of it. After years of waiting, we get to see

LEGO sets are indeed magical and wonderful displays of craftsmanship meant for showing off, due to how accurate they are to whatever they're portraying. From spaceships to made-up fantasy ninjas, to even Lunar New Year auspicious dragons, you can't go wrong when you're putting down lots of money for hardy Danish toy br

The biggest fighting game tournament is now in its 2024 iteration. Happening in West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Centre, USA, from 19 to 21 July PST, EVO 2024 will feature the following fighting games on the main stage according to a recent livestream: Tekken 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MM4clV2qjE&pp=

SNK CORPORATION has announced that THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV (KOF XV) will receive a free, significant update on 30 January 2024, introducing the Advance Strike mechanic. The Advance Strike allows players to perform more aggressive plays by protecting themselves against throws and attacks. The Standard Edition of KOF XV

SNK Corporation announced that The King Of Fighters XIII Global Match is available exclusively for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The King Of Fighters XIII Global Match is an enhanced version of The King Of Fighters XIII Global Match, the iconic 2D versus battle fighting game, introducing rollback netcode for fast-paced onli

SNK has announced its final character for its The King of Fighters XV Season 2 pass: Hinako. For those who don't know, Hinako is a schoolgirl with abnormal strength and knows the art of sumo wrestling. She's a grappler in a petite body, in other words. She will be available as a purchaseable download in Winter 2023.

SNK has announced via a new The King Of Fighters XV gameplay trailer that its next Season 2 fighter pass addition will be out next week. Duo Lon, a fighter who debuted in KOF 2003 along with Ash and Shen Wu, will be out and available on 12 September. Hailing from the Hizoku ninja clan, he has bendy limbs, can launch

Distributed by VNGGames, the mobile game Metal Slug Awakening, licensed by SNK, developed & launched by Tencent will officially open beta on 22 August 2023. The latest Metal Slug Awakening also marked the comeback of the legendary arcade game which is widely known for its side-scrolling game style and is now rep