Announced this weekend during the 2016 Dead or Alive Festival in Japan, The King of Fighters' Mai Shiranui will be joining the roster of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round for the PlayStation 4 in September. Nippon ichi!

Koei Tecmo has teamed up with one of my favourite Japanese RPG developers to create a set of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round costumes based on the delightful costume designs from the Atelier series and other Gust games. I'd almost pay $44 for them. Almost.

Naotora Ii overcame many hardships to become the female daimyo of the Ii clan in 16th century Japan. She's time hopping from Samurai Warriors to Dead or Alive 5: Last Round next month.

Surprise! The thing absolutely nobody was expecting happened: some Dead or Alive players on PC have modded the latest game so they can play with naked characters. NSFW content ahead.

Acknowledging that the Dead or Alive fighting franchise has a sexy image problem, community leaders at the series' go-to forum have added an over-sexualized costume soft-ban to their tournament rules. Reactions from the community-at-large have been overwhelmingly negative.

Team Ninja's Dead or Alive franchise has never been one of subtlety. In fact, the developers have been more than willing to discuss what's involved in making their games more "realistic". That said, there is a line they're unwilling to cross and with the impending release of Last Round on PC, Team Ninja has politely asked the modding community to treat the game in a "good moral and manner".

For their upcoming fighting game, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, the developers at Tecmo Koei have created a new engine to bring their characters to life. Called the "Yawaraka Engine" (やわらかエンジン) or "Softness Engine", it is the result of attempting to up the visual realism of character skin in order to make characters look more naturally realistic on the latest platforms.