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Samurai Shodown’s next two characters are Cham Cham and The Last Blade 2 rep Hibiki Takane. Cham Cham is expected sometime in March, along with a new Guard Crush mechanic and balance changes.

King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match is heading to PlayStation 4. Like previous SNK re-releases, it will include rollback netcode for more consistent online play. No release date was provided.

King of Fighters XV has been officially revealed with a 2021 release window. While very light on gameplay, the teaser does provide a great look at the stylish new graphics and returning characters like Kyo, Benimaru, Leona, K’, Mai, and Shun’ei.

Fatal Fury: First Contact is now available on Switch. This is the latest entry in the Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection, a group of formerly handheld, old-school fighting games re-released by SNK throughout 2020.

SNK confirmed today that Kyo, Benimaru, and Shun’ei will be in King of Fighters XV, with a gameplay reveal scheduled for January 7, 2021. The game was originally announced back at EVO 2018.

Samurai Shodown’s next character is the Warden from Ubisoft’s For Honor, giving us one of the wildest fighting game crossovers in recent memory. Players will be able to see how chivalry stacks up against bushido when Warden drops tomorrow.

With Gals’ Fighters out and Samurai Shodown! 2 coming soon, the next NeoGeo Pocket Color game coming to Nintendo Switch this summer will be King of Fighters R-2, AKA one of the best games on the system. Bookmark the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection website for news on more portable SNK games coming to the Switch.

Huh, SNK just released Gals’ Fighter on Switch. Neo Geo Pocket Color’s cool clicky stick let it host some strangely good fighters, and this was the cutest. Nice to see NGPC games reappearing, and $7.99 is a lot easier to swallow than the $450 a U.S. copy of Gals’ Fighter recently fetched.

The SNK World Championship in Japan has been postponed indefinitely over coronavirus concerns. This event, which would have capped off months of Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters XIV competition, was originally scheduled for late March. The CDC recently placed Japan on ’Alert’ in response to the disease’s spread.