The Importance of Emulation in the Age of a Pandemic

Not a fan of the recent Mortal Kombat 11 expansion? Find yourself reminiscing on some of the better days of Capcom? Emulation is readily available for you, and fighting games are readily available in multiple forms to play in training, arcade, and online against live foes. With most of the world still under some measure of quarantine, emulation has proved an important key to continue engaging in fighting games.

Samurai Shodown pre-orders and early adopters will get Season One pass for free

With the release of the Samurai Shodown reboot right around the corner, SNK took an opportunity to both release a new trailer and a spicy new bit of news: those who pre-order the game and all the early adopters will receive the Season One pass for free by registering the game by June 30th.

Shiki is latest character revealed for upcoming Samurai Shodown reboot

In this week’s edition of “holy fuck this game has so many cool women characters I want to main”, YouTube channel Game Goons did me an early birthday favor by revealing Samurai Shodown’s latest roster addition: Shiki.

SNK announce new Samurai Shodown character and NEOGEO collection at PAX East

SNK appear to have brought the ruckus to PAX East this year, having a playable demo of Samurai Shodown at the event and also holding a presentation earlier today, where they proceeded to announce a new character and a collection of SamSho titles coming out.

Samurai Shodown has received a bunch of new updates and it all looks amazing

Over the past few days, SNK has come up with a whole lot of Samurai Shodown updates, starting with developers playing the most recent build of the game with and for LI Joe’s YouTube channel.

How soon is too soon for a new game in a fighting game series?

Happy New Year! Today marks the dawn of a new year- the year of 2019- and I was instantly reminded of the insanely hype promo SNK released last year for the upcoming Samurai Spirits/Shodown title, which is due this year. SNK also held a meeting with investors, showing that the company also intends to release a new King of Fighters title sometime in 2020, though this has not been confirmed to be a solidified release date, appearing instead to be the more target date of release rather that a full committal. This got me thinking… it has only been a few years since the release of the last King of Fighters title. Is it too soon to be thinking of releasing another?

King of Fighters XIV receives balance update just before Christmas

On the 24th in the West (25th in Japan), SNK released a brand new balance patch for the PS4 version of the game. While the patch addresses a number of bug fixes, there are some pretty significant changes to certain characters in the roster, with one gargantuan bundle of changes to one character in particular.