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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...
One of this year's premiere fighting game tournaments and expos, Community Effort Orlando (CEO) in Florida, USA, took place during the weekend. Many of the country's best are fighting for top spots in Street Fighter 5, Guilty Gear Strive, and other popular fighting games. Even overseas players like Thailand's Book and Japan's Kudo are representing ...
To distract us from the fact that SNK is dabbling in NFTs, the company has announced a new team in its new fighting game The King of Fighters XV. Or rather, a kinda-new team in the form of the Awakened Orochi team. This team consists of the "awakened" versions of Yashiro, Shermie, and Chris. Yashiro has Earth grapple powers, Shermie has lightn...
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...
The biggest fighting game tournament is making an offline comeback in 2022 from 6th to 7th August GMT+8. The games that will be in this year's EVO tournament are as follows: Street Fighter 5 Guilty Gear Strive Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Tekken 7 The King of Fighters XV Melty Blood: Type Lumina Dragon Ball FighterZ Granblue Fantasy Versus...
The King of Fighters XV is out and is taking the fighting game online space by storm. So how's the game's future looking in terms of DLC? Apart from the new Garou Mark of the Wolves team (Rock Howard, B.Jenet, Gato), the Southtown team (Geese, Billy Kane, Yamazaki), and a few others, there's probably going to be more oncoming. It really depends ...
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...
A new King of Fighters game equals a new bunch of uber bosses that uphold the SNK Boss Syndrome mantle at the end of their respective story modes. And KOF XV is no different: the 15th mothership title features two new bosses at the end of the game's story mode that will test your patience and endurance. Fortunately, we're here to help. Here are ...
Score yet another KO for Malaysia video game production work. It turns out that Malaysian video game outsourcing company Lemon Sky Studios had a hand in making & beautifying SNK's latest 2D fighting game The King of Fighters XV (thanks Fat Cat Lim). The company worked on the game's character and environment art, amidst other things related t...
You may remember anime character designer & director Masami Obari for his art style and vision, with shows like Gowcaiser and the Fatal Fury animated films with his stylized character designs and interesting interpretation of the female anatomy. Just today, the esteemed artist/director and his animation crew has worked on a new The King ...
SNK just published its future plans for its upcoming hit 3v3 fighting game The King of Fighters XV, and it's looking prosperous just like the Lunar New Year. There will be an additional 12 fighters added to the base KOF XV roster in 2022 post-launch. Here's the full list of fighters: Team Garou (March 2022) Rock Howard, Gato, B.Jenet. These ch...
Someone at SNK might get fired. Or promoted, depending on how you look at it. The final few characters of 2D fighting game The King of Fighters XV have been confirmed (via Reddit). In fact, the game will feature a number of DLC characters who are from various SNK fighting games. They are... ...Kula, Maxima, and Elisabeth. ...
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