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Who Won Those King Of Fighters XII Xbox 360 Prizes?

1:00PM David Wildgoose | Last week we ran a comp for you to win SNK’s King Of Fighters XII collectors edition. Let’s find out who the four Xbox 360 winners were. More »
News

SNK Making Fighting… Shmup Game (Bwah?!)

4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Best known of its King of Fighters fighting games, SNK Playmore is releasing a fighting-meets-shooting game for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It’s currently sporting the temp title of The King of Fighters Sky Stage. More »
Media

Meet (Then Pity) The Cast & Crew Of The King Of Fighters Movie

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | The King of Fighters movie sounds silly. Want to see how silly? Let’s meet the cast and crew behind the project to find out! More »

Here’s Your King Of Fighters XII Roster

4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Street Fighter IV’s able to whip up an internet shitstorm every time it announces one character. King of Fighters XII, meanwhile, likes to be a little more subtle, announcing its full, final roster quietly. More »

More Mai Shiranui T&A Figures For The Pile

12:00PM Michael McWhertor | It doesn’t look like The King of Fighters‘ jiggly ninja Mai Shiranui will be returning for The King of Fighters XII, but that won’t stop SNK from pumping out another plastic knock-up of the girl. More »

King Of Fighters Movie Sounds Like A Disaster-In-Waiting

1:40PM Luke Plunkett | To refresh: Gordon Chan is directing a King of Fighters movie. Previously, details were scant, but today, details on the flick have surfaced. We wish they’d remained scant. More »

Lets TGS! Oh, Mai, Mai, Mai, Mai, Mai

2:30PM Michael McWhertor | SNK Playmore knows how to draw a crowd at Tokyo Game Show — just line up five girls in Mai Shiranui cosplay get ups and let the booth babe hungry masses snap dozens and dozens of photos of their perfectly smooth knees. Then, hope that at least one of them will be interested in playing King of Fighters 2002 or Slot Panic on a cell phone. More »

Here, Another Gorgeous King Of Fighters XII Trailer

10:20PM Luke Plunkett | And this one’s not some shaky cam one, either. It’s a proper one. A long, proper one, that shows off better than any before the hundreds of frames of animation that have been poured into each character. More »

SNK Talk KOFXII’s Gorgeous, Gorgeous Graphics

10:20PM Luke Plunkett | You know one of the key differences between product and art? It’s in the craftsmanship. Lots of people can churn out a 3D model of an alien, few can hand-draw and then animate lush, vibrant, 2D sprites. So those that can, we treasure. And we treasure SNK! Speaking yesterday at the Tokyo Amusement Show, King Of Fighters XII producer Masaaki Kukino spoke at length about not just their upcoming fighter, but its “traditional” graphics: Overall, it’s a very hard process that could take 16 months for even an experienced designer to do alone. In terms of data, the character size is about four times larger [than in previous installments]. But when considering the extra errors that come about in doing the [bigger] pixel art, the trouble is more than four times what it used to be. Each character in KOFXII has around 400 to 600 [sprite] patterns. Every single one of them is hand-drawn, and it’s something that we’re proud of. I’ll only say it here, but we believe that this is something that no other company can imitate, something that only SNK Playmore can do. Amazing. King of Fighters XII knuckles up next year [GameSpot] More »