Speaking of The King of Fighters, major Japanese retailer Bic Camera put KOF XII on ultra clearance and re-priced it to 980 yen.

Fresh off the afterglow of Street Fighter IV, I was ready to dive into a different type of fighting game. Luckily, right when I needed to take a break from SFIV, King of Fighters XII was released. I hadn’t played a KoF game since the Neo Geo games and was eager to see what I […]

SNK knows The King of Fighters XII has buggy online play. They released a patch that addressed “minor performance issues.” Now they’re getting to tackling other problems like the Raiden/Elisabeth animation glitch.

The King of Fighters XII is in some households and early reports claim online play has been less than stellar. Ignition is stepping in to intervene with a patch, which is available for the PlayStation 3 version now.

So, Mai didn’t make the first draft. SNK could sell her and other characters as future downloadable content. King of Fighters XII has a marketplace mode where users can purchase additional items online.

The King of Fighters XII attempts to replicate the feel of an arcade at home. The online setup has rooms where users can watch fights and discuss how Goro walked right into one of Ryo’s fireballs.

The King of Fighters XII is getting the fastest arcade to console conversion in the history of the series outside of playing an arcade cartridge on a Neo Geo. SNK will bring their “KOF Re-Birth” to arcades in Japan this April. Three months later the console version comes out on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox […]

Street Fighter IV went 3D while SNK stuck with slick sprites for the King of Fighters XII. A good decision on SNK’s part since we already saw 3D SNK fighters in the King of Fighters: Maximum Impact series. The downside about the new hand drawn sprites is SNK can’t reuse their old work and the […]

Ever since SNK closed its New Jersey office Ignition Entertainment has been publishing all their games. So, it’s not much of surprise to hear Ignition will also be responsible for The King of Fighters XII in North America and Europe next year. No other details like a release date or platforms were announced at this […]