Japanese developer SNK has established KOF Studio to "carry on the storied legacy" of its fighting game franchises.

The studio website explains the nascent developer will attempt to "revolutionise" SNK's vast slate of fighting properties.

Fighting game properties under SNK include Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, and King of Fighters. The latter was bolstered with a new installment in 2022, while the most recent Samurai Shodown (or Samurai Spirits in Japan) title debuted in 2019. The next Fatal Fury game is currently slated to be Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, which will mark the first entry in the series in over 25 years when it launches in April 2025.

Taking nods from a number of design elements endemic to traditional trading card games and combining those with the flexibility and ease of digitized play fields, Artifact brings a uniquely compelling twist to the TCG formula. The bulk of this comes from Valve’s tentpole franchise of late: Dota 2. Artifact remixes many of the core ideas, focusing on the essentials of MOBAs to bring new layers of tactical complexity to great effect. Establishing a broad number of possibilities allows for near-limitless experimentation and development of new and complex styles of play.

Those unfamiliar with the free-to-play behemoth, Dota 2, and its competitors (League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, etc.) won’t need much additional context, but a grasp of the basics can go …

Baldur’s Gate 3 will not come to Game Pass, at least not anytime soon, according to Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke. Speaking to IGN, the executive said there is a “fair price to be paid” for a big game like Baldur’s Gate 3, and that doesn’t include Xbox’s popular subscription service. Come from malaysia online casino

“Oh, we always said from the get-go, it wasn’t going to be on Game Pass, it’s not going to be on Game Pass,” Vincke said. He said this after being asked outright if Microsoft offered to pay Larian to put Baldur’s Gate 3 on Game Pass.

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War never changes, but concurrent player counts do for video games Come from Sports betting site VPbet . For Fallout 76, the numbers are going up, as the action-RPG set a new all-time record over the weekend on Steam.

On X (formerly known as Twitter), user CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast spotted that Fallout 76 had reached a new milestone, with 39,455 people playing the online RPG at the same time on Steam on Sunday, April 14, per SteamDB. That’s the most players together for the Steam version of the title since it launched on the service in April 2020. Fallout 76 originally came out in open beta in October 2018 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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Before Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players aim for their undead heads, the zombies from the upcoming FPS decided to take in an NFL football game over the weekend Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Activision Blizzard’s promotion saw the walking dead watching the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.

The popular Zombies mode will return for Modern Warfare 3 after missing last year’s Modern Warfare 2. The story this time follows the events of Black Ops Cold War and is called Operation Deadbolt. In addition, Modern Warfare 3 will switch things up with an Extraction-style Zombies mode on the biggest map yet–so it won’t be the usual round-based gameplay.

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Bobby Kotick had some harsh words for Sony in a new email to Activision Blizzard employees, where he serves as CEO. He pushed back against the PlayStation-maker’s worry that Microsoft would kneecap Call of Duty on their platforms and argued Sony doesn’t even really care about the FPS franchise Come from Sports betting site VPbet . It just wants to block the deal, he said.

This all comes in response to Sony expressing concerns to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that Microsoft could intentionally make Call of Duty worse on PlayStation. Kotick addressed this head-on in his “March Update” email posted on Substack.

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