Orochinagi: The King of Fighters

Watch for some solid Clark, a nasty guard crush cancel DM Takuma, and all over you like white on rice Heidern. http://www.youtube.com/user/GAMEacho for more!

It was found on the SNK site and taken down lol too late.  Well done and thx to FightClub and Penpen.  So what about new characters?  Looking at that character select screen it doesn’t seem likely but we can always hope.  Then again, SNK’s priority was pleasing the fans.  Perhaps K’ has a new team [...]

Welcome back to the King of Fighters Love Letter. With King of Fighters XIII just being announced I intend to help further blossom any enthusiasm you may have for the King of Fighters series by offering you the story that few people have successfully explained. Rest assured, this series isn’t easy to make. To be [...]

Went to the beta test today. Few things that I still remember: – Controls. For some reason I couldn’t pull off a dragon punch motion to save my life. This was multiple rounds, on multiple beta test cabinets. That said, plenty of Kyo users were doing uppercuts fine so I guess it’s just me sucking [...]

System notes: CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION ================================= GRAPHICS – Characters are smaller and it’s easier to see the full screen. – As of now there aren’t any stages that make it hard to see the characters. SYSTEM – All KOFXII systems (CC, sousai, guard attack) have been removed – Backstep probably can’t be shortened [...]

Newest observations: Leona’s air qcb A stops mid air! Leona has her double hit Stand D KO effect – I saw the screen intermittently flash red and white Kyo has his air dwn C — oh there’s trouble brewing — but it’s knockdown! Mai vs Kim Yuri and the special KO finish effect… thx ShadowTempest [...]

Click here for the next update Confirmed: “Drive Cancel” Special move cancelling (watch video 1:26) Mai (basic same outfit with tweaks) King (new costume) Yuri EX specials 10 colours each! Hyperdrive Mode (A 2k2 style cancel mode) Gauges/Stocks Joe’s qcb + K Joe’s combo DM Counter CD As you can see in the video, the drive [...]

How?  It’s very simple – dress it up as a new game but really… it’s the same old game.  Before the arguing begins, I have a couple of valid points and some truths that should hit home.  With XIII just around the corner, I feel we’re faced with a  question: what lies in our future, [...]

A day to go before KOF XIII is unveiled to the public, SNK Playmore launched the official Blog of the game. http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xiii/blog/ Also, they show Ash Crimson, Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, illustrated by Eisuke Ogura. The countdown to the preview begins… Now!!!

Two dimensional fighting games are a very interesting genre to me. It’s my personal belief that games should be as simple as possible in order to allow everyone who has a natural interest to be able to enjoy them. That doesn’t mean I want games to be dumbed down, mind you. This is a matter [...]

I was going to use a thumbnail here, but it’s er.. full of spoilers.  Okay, here’s today’s KOF funny! … if you never played KOF 2K and never heard of strikers, this won’t make any sense. But according to the poll, you’re all old skool, so… yeah!

I will be messing with the page in real time, don’t panic if it disappears… edit: lol, it did disappear, typically after I went off to do something else.  Sorry for the 2 hours downtime. I think this new theme is a bit better, the four red squares of the previous scheme was starting to [...]

I needed to check over a few things with Kyo and a few accidental clicks leads us to another round up of KOF youtube. The first vid shows that some people have time on their hands; good to see it’s not wasted.  I do wonder how they got those XII backgrounds though… And then you [...]

Blazblue CT Limited Edition for £29.99 Super Street Fighter IV £24.99 at Zavvi.com Kinda hard to argue with these prices…

It goes without saying that Capcom is the king of oldschool fighting games. I hardly think anyone really has the right to say the company doesn’t deserve to be where it is either. Resident Evil, Mega Man, and Phoenix Wright are all things I love that Capcom has bestowed upon me, but strangely enough I [...]

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/event/kof-xiii/index.html Like Stated, KOF XIII will have a Special Preview at the First Floor of Belle Salle Hall in Akihabara on Iori Yagami’s Birthday (March 25th) around 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Japan Standard Time) or (9:00 AM – 10:30 AM GMT). Admission is free, but it will be open by 5:00 PM (JST)/8:00 AM [...]

After wiping the floor (or sky) at the Geese Tower, not by Geese, but by the Dark Counterparts of Kyo and Iori. We bid America farewell and we fly (literally) to… Europe (which IS a mishmash of various European sights) We start off at the hills (which kind of remind me of Sound of Music), [...]

All that knuckle cracking was a bad influence on me.  Yes I’m referring to the old SF anime, where Guile was cracking his knuckles for dramatic effect - I found it rather… beguiling yet awesome at the same time.  To be honest though, Kenshiro from FOTNS (HNK) is really more to blame.  That man made cracking knuckles [...]

What follows is a few observations that came to mind after attending a few XII sessions in London, ultimately a commentary on the utility of a fighting game community. YOU’RE ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PEOPLE YOU PLAY NeoEmpire staged two XII sessions about a month apart, with good turnouts, a few PS3 setups and [...]