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During the EVO 2022 The King of Fighters XV top 8 tournament, SNK took to the stage and revealed it's going to work on a brand new Fatal Fury/Garou: Mark of the Wolves game. The new Fatal Fury project has been greenlit, which is great news for fighting game fans since it's been 20+ years since we've had a new entry in the series. The 30-second t...
The King of Fighters XV's latest characters will be out next week, and will have the long-awaited crossplay feature next year. SNK announced during EVO 2022 that Team Awakened Orochi, which features Orochi Yashiro, Orochi Chris, and Orochi Shermie, will release on 8th August. That's this coming Monday. To recap, they play like their KOF '97, KOF...
The King of Fighters XV is getting a new team this August. Technically an old team, since it's the Orochi versions of Yashiro, Chris, and Shermie from the past games. Now dubbed Team Awakened Orochi, these versions of Yashiro (Parched Earth), Shermie (Insanely Violent Lightning), and Chris (Flames of Destiny) have completely different movesets b...
Back in 1999, 2D fighting game Street Fighter 3 had its first real competitor from gamemaker SNK - Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It was lovingly animated, it featured Fatal Fury characters (and their offsprings/successors) years later, and continued the plot of the game after the death of main bad guy Geese Howard. There were plans for a sequel, but 7...
One of the major fighting game esports tournaments is going offline for the first time in years. Combo Breaker 2022 saw a huge crowd turnout, with a 1,000 people participating in the tournament's Guilty Gear Strive segment. Top players like Arslan Ash, Tempest NYC, SonicFox, and MenaRD have attended. Sadly, no Infiltration due to a ton of factors i...
The next King of Fighters XV team will drop into the game on 17th May. Following up from Team Garou's debut, Team South Town will be entering the KOF XV fray. The team consists of Billy Kane, Geese Howard, and Ryuji Yamazaki. To recap, Billy has zoning tools with his fire-laced cane, Geese has counters and Reppukens, and Yamazaki can reflect p...
Xiaohai is a name you hear often in high-level The King of Fighters and 2D fighting game play. Without him, there wouldn't be other Chinese and Taiwanese players like ET picking up the KOF mantle and keeping the scene alive. So when you hear him craft up his tier list for the recently-out The King of Fighters XV, you would darn well listen. His ...
The King of Fighters XV has added a new playable character into the fray: Omega Rugal. Veterans of KOF will remember Rugal Bernstein and his Omega counterpart as the de facto fighting game bosses of KOF '94, KOF '95, KOF '98, and other dream match entries. He has it all: a fast projectile, a way to reflect projectile, a badass horizontal attack,...
The company that made The King of Fighters XV and other classic 2D action and fighting games is pretty much fully owned by Saudi Arabian royalty. In late 2020, the company known as Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), that is owned by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, previously purchased a 33% stake and became SNK's larges...
KOF XV has one more surprise in store: the addition of SNK uberboss Omega Rugal as a playable character. This DLC was announced during the Japan Fighting Game Publishers roundtable that happened an hour ago. Apart from him being a free DLC character, SNK will also release a special Boss Challenge version of him, where he's more powerful and will...
While there aren't any standout The King of Fighters XV figures and statues up for pre-order right now, company Flying Fish has the next best thing. The statue and figure-making company just announced pre-orders for The King of Fighters '97 Orochi Shermie, the Orochi version of sexy wrestler fighter and fan of eye-covering long bangs Shermie fro...
The King of Fighters XV is out now for all major platforms, and it's doing great so far on SNK's side. According to Steam Charts (via Eventhubs), KOF XV has hit an all-time peak of 8,205 players. At this point in typing, the game is being played by 6,049 people for the last 24 hours. This puts KOF XV as one of the best launch SNK titles on PC so...
While it'll take some time for The King of Fighters pro players and content creators to make up a definitive bunch of KOF XV tier lists for competitive play, here's a good alternative to sate your thirsts. Pro gamer Justin Wong, known for having a lot of people pull off EVO Moment 37 on him during online play, just published his own KOF XV tier ...
Platform(s): PS4 (version reviewed), PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series Genre: 2D fighting game with 3v3 and legacy mechanics If anything, SNK clearly knows its audience and niche. Rather than making a mass appeal 2D fighting game from scratch, the company sticks to what it knows best and just pile it on for its loyal fanbase and top players. Th...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: 1v1 2D sports game that's secretly a fighting game The 90s era of arcade gaming was really packed with underrated gems, especially on the Neo Geo arcade hardware. If there's one game that really, REALLY needs to make a comeback from the SNK and Neo Geo 90s arcade 1v1 d...
A new gaming generation means another new King of Fighters game to rival Capcom's offering. The King of Fighters XV was announced and features a nifty art style, some new battle mechanics in its 3v3 combat, and the return of fan favourites. Here are the revealed characters so far, each with their own trailers. Team Rival Isla https://www.yout...
The classic 23-year-old Neo Geo Pocket game, SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch. First released all the way back in 1999, the classic game SNK Vs Capcom Card Fighters’ Clash is making a return on the Nintendo Switch and is available for purchase right now on the Nintendo eShop. O...
SNK has announced that The King Of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Final Edition will finally be getting a highly-anticipated feature via a new major update. Something that online players will definitely appreciate. Rollback netcode. The King Of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Final Edition will receive a major Steam update this winter, adding major ...
SNK has announced that they have delayed The King Of Fighters XV to sometime in Q1 2022. The latest in the long-running fighting game franchise was previously slated to release sometime in 2021. SNK producer Yasuyuki Oda gave a statement on the delay: There are many fans who are anticipating the release of The King Of Fighters XV in 20...
Better late than never, eh? SNK makes a throwback to one of its revered fighting games onto 2019's Samurai Shodown in DLC form. That's right: Hibiki from The Last Blade games makes her way into the game as a guest DLC character, putting her issen sword technique & fast running speed to great use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5PWE3kwwa...
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