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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, A sequel decades in the making
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is the long-awaited sequel to the Fatal Fury series. Fans of the Fatal Fury franchise waited for a sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolves for 25 years. Fans thought there would never be a sequel because a handful of Fatal Fury and Garou characters are on the roster of King of Fighters. Here’s the thing, though: The King of Fighters is set in an alternate universe. Fatal Fury characters are from the 90s, yet they get to meet Art of Fighting characters who are from the 1970s, and Samurai Shodown characters are from the 19th century. Originally, it was a crossover of SNK games, but it doesn’t look like it anymore since multiple sequels of KOF introduced more original characters over crossovers.
Grid: Save Humans or Kill Humans?
In “Grid”, a phantom or ghost is on the loose and it’s the weirdest thing. The first time the ghost appeared was to save humankind and then about 20+ years later the same ghost shows up and helps a serial killer escape the police. What gives??
Crunchyroll’s Spring Finale Week Is On
It’s an eventful seven days on the Crunchyroll app. By sheer coincidence (or is it?) eight different anime on Crunchyroll will be ending their seasons within the same week’s time.
F-Zero Maximum Velocity Joins Nintendo Switch Online Tomorrow
The latest addition to Nintendo Switch Online will be F-Zero Maximum Velocity: a sequel to the SNES original. The first game was mainly built to show off the SNES’s Mode 7 background scaling capabilities, which were new for a game console. Likewise, it was also new for a handheld in 2001, and served a similar purpose.
Sweet Stranger and Me: Gold-Digging Gigolo or World’s Best Dad?
In “Sweet Stranger and Me”, Hong Na-Ri is a stewardess who has been engaged to Jo Dong-Jin for almost 10 years. Her father had abandoned them both for another woman when she was young. They never kept in contact with each other. She lost her mother in a tragic car accident.
Forest Hills: The Last Year Gaining Unexpected Troma Crossover
Forest Hills: The Last Year, due out this summer, is an asymmetrical survival horror game — you know the type, one player is assigned the role of a deadly monster or killer and the other players are given the task of escaping, or staying out of their way for a certain period of time. Dead By Daylight is the most famous example of this.
Between Horizons Now Available For PC
Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer DigiTales Interactive have released their video game Between Horizons for PC. The game is a narrative 2.5D detective adventure with a sci-fi setting.
SF8: Can Robots Kill? Can Robots Pray?
In “SF8: The Prayer”, Gan Ho-Joong is a robot caregiver, required to take care of a terminally ill patient, the mother of Yeon Jung-In. The robot is an excellent caregiver for the patient, but she also strives to understand the daughter of the patient. Perhaps evolving and becoming more “human-like” it part of her programming.
Tensei Released To Steam
A Japan-based indie dev team called Project Pegasus has just released their casual platformer Tensei to Steam. It has a cool ink-shaded look reminiscent of old illustrations from the region.
D&D Comes Full Circle, Announces Campaign Inspired By Stranger Things
If there’s one common theme throughout the four existing seasons of Netflix’s Stranger Things, it’s the love of its creators for Dungeons & Dragons. A session of the game is one of the first things seen on the show. Names of classic creatures from the original manual are directly used. Entire plots and arcs are inspired by D&D stories and monsters. Would there even be a Stranger Things without D&D?
Tensei Released To Steam
A Japan-based indie dev team called Project Pegasus has just released their casual platformer Tensei to Steam. It has a cool ink-shaded look reminiscent of old illustrations from the region.
New Anime Series “Dan Da Dan” Acquired By Crunchyroll
Though Crunchyroll announces new anime by the bucketful, “Dan Da Dan” is viewed as a pretty huge one, so it gets its own separate announcement. In fact, it’s so big that Crunchyroll is making this announcement now even though the show doesn’t actually debut until the fall.
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