The future is dead
sonictempest Earlier this week there were rumblings that Masaaki Kukino, producer on KOF XII and KOF XIII, had left SNK Playmore as of November of last year. Today, this rumour was…
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Random thoughts on recent happenings
Starcraft II is out this week and I’m not buying it. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but I’m not. Part of it has to do with how I left…
So, King of Fighters XIII…
…actually surprised me a little. I wasn’t expecting the tag system to be resurrected, and indeed it looks like it’s hasn’t been. However, they’ve done something else, and resurrected a…
Oh, who would ever want to be king
Looks like King of Fighters XIII is en route. (logo yoinked from Dengeki Online) To be clear, I didn’t like KOF XII at all. I did pay $60 for the…
GG SNKP
SNKP, you clowns 🙁 I don’t think this has been confirmed to be a console-only bug yet, but seriously, with all the crap you left out of this game…
If this is what they mean by ‘re-birth’, screw reincarnation
Ever find your skepticism to be completely justified? Everything about KOFXII’s game system feels weird. The game is definitely slower than XI, 98 and 2K2, no doubt about that. On…
SNKP does my work for me
For a while now, I’ve suspected something wasn’t quite right with the look of King of Fighters XII. Sure, I’ve ranted on and on about how the system they’ve put…
“I used to rule the world…”
I could say much about what I think of King of Fighters XII (and indeed, I have, multiple times), but if anything the most telling thing about the game is…
Gaming odds and ends
This post might be a little disjointed – I’ve been playing a bunch of games recently and thought I’d just pen down my thoughts in one single post since I…
The King of Steam
It looks like EA has finally decided to set up shop on Steam. The most interesting part of this venture is that the Steam-purchased versions of their games will not…