The five remaining new playable characters BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is set to debut during Arc Nama SP live stream on September 22 at 11:00 JST aka September 21, at 21:00 CST.
The free version 2.0 update, due out on November 21, will include major balance adjustments for every character along with the Version 2.0 Content Pack which includes nine additional playable characters, a new scenario, new character interactions and colors.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is available now for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC.
Tekken 7
The Tekken 7 Season Pass 3 first DLC character Zafina will launch alongside the game’s update on September 10, Leroy Smith release date is still unknown. The update includes Battle balance adjustments, New function: Play Stats, Expanded character select function, Adjustment of online rank, Renewal of user interface and Added illustrations to Gallery.
Tekken 7 is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Banjo & Kazooie launched this week for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury will launch in November, Nintendo is killing it in the DLC game! Additionally, the company announced more downloadable content fighters are in development because obviously, Nintendo isn’t stupid.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is available now for Switch.
Dead or Alive 6
Brand new update for Dead or Alive 6 the 1.10 Patch Notes
Bonus costumes for Marie Rose, Ryu Hayabusa, and Mila and introduced Premium Tickets that can be used to unlock individual DLC costumes on the PS4 only.
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Athena Asamiya is a character originally from Psycho Soldier and a distant relative and modern-day counterpart of Princess Athena from Athena. Her official nickname is The Psychic-Powered Idol but she is perhaps best known for changing her outfit and hairstyle for virtually every main installment and is Nona (an illustrator hired by SNK in 1995, he drew various in-game art and portraits in Fatal Fury, KOF01-03, XI-Xiii & SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos) favorite character to draw. Athena is very outgoing, polite, friendly and happy with righteous virtues and well-meaning morals. She was taught by Chin Gentsai, her style is the Wing Chun Kung Fu and her stance was loosely based on Liuhebafa. She treasures her fans and strives to do her best to fight for them. Athena is a powerful psychic, capable of harnessing several psionic abilities, a famous J-Pop star, good at designing, creating websites, anything relating to the internet and she’s especially good at lacrosse.
Kula Diamond
Kula Diamond first appeared as the sub-boss in The King of Fighters 2000. She was created with the codename Anti-K by NESTS (a secret syndicate that used the King of Fighters 99-2001 tournaments to carry out their plans for world domination) but her official nickname is Ice Doll and her original hair color is strawberry blonde (but changes to a light blue when she activates her powers). She was specially made with attempts to depict a 14-year-old girl with appropriate gestures, to exterminate K’ which is why she possesses the same design, and clothes. Kula fears going back to her previous ways so she doesn’t use her powers to full extent and prefers close combat as to not kill anyone by accident. Kula is a Cryokinesis user with impressive control over ice, her powers are strong enough to freeze and shatter a space station. Kula is very flexible, acrobatic and agile so her fighting style is primarily based on K’s but adapted to her ice-based powers, which allows her to fights using her ice skates to their full extent.
Mai Shiranui
Mai Shiranui is from the Fatal Fury series, her breasts were modeled after Fumie Hosokawa and her bottom after the late-Ai Iijima (both women were famous idols). Mai is a very cheerful and temperamental girl, somewhat of an airhead, she admires any kind beauty or attractiveness (which sometimes comes across as being vain). She dreams of getting married to her prince charming Andy Bogard, her self-proclaimed fiancé (which creeped out Andy). Mai is the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, master of ninjitsu and Koppo-ken; uses the Shiranui-ryuu form of ninjutsu combined with her fire powers to fight with more graceful and majestic moves, in reference to traditional Japanese dance. Mai is an expert with climbing surfaces, a master of stealth, can temporarily stay airborne, float, glide, change directions in mid-air or gain temporary flight; plus she can hide/pull out infinite weapons and/or items from her clothing/cleavage, and create/control fire (she can’t control other’s flames and is not immune to other types of fire). Mai can also change clothes within a seconds to distract her opponents and defeat them.
Nakoruru
Nakoruru is a character in the Samurai Shodown series of fighting games. She is based on the Ainu people of Hokkaido (Native Japanese). Nakoruru famous “This is nature’s punishment” quote is based on Sailor Moon’s “In the name of the moon, I punish you” line. At 15, Nakoruru accepts the new Kamui warrior of Kamui Kotan position. Fulfilling this role diligently since 1786 until sacrificing herself to nature by sleeping in Kamui Kotan’s forests forever at nature’s beckoned call. She later transcended even further and melded her soul with Gaia becoming a Divine Spirit. As the “Maidens of Light”, she travels across space/time to prevent disasters from occurring. Nakoruru is calm and gentle, shy toward people yet, her mannerisms and appearance make her seem rather “doll-like”. Nakoruru can hear and sense nature/people’s voice and spirits, heal wounds, fill weapon with ki energy and reflect projectile. Nakoruru normally fights with a kodachi and depending on the game, Mamahaha (a hawk) or Shikuru (a wolf).
Leona Heidern
Leona also known as Leona Heidern is a character introduced in KOF’96. Born in an unnamed village, residing with her family until Leona slaughtered everyone in the village because of her Orochi heritage. Leona lost her memories and wanders aimlessly until she was adopted by Heidern. Leona is a reticent individual who has trouble expressing herself outside of combat or a mission. Due to her past, she often keeps her emotions in check, afraid of losing control and hurting her friends because of the Riot of the Blood state. Her official nickname is The Silent Soldier. Leona can create a cutting aura to pierce or cut anything with her hands or feet, create a ball of energy surrounded by several energy blades or go into Riot of the Blood state (due to her Orochi heritage whenever Orochi’s presence is near so long as Orochi’s power remains weak, she retains control). She seems to emulate her adoptive father, Heidern and Ralf’s moves, pay homage to Kamen Rider, references to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and take namesakes from Grendizer.
Yuri Sakazaki
Yuri Sakazaki is a character introduced in the Art of Fighting series as a damsel in distress, alongside her older brother, Ryo Sakazaki. When she was six years old, her mother died in a car accident prompting father to leaves in order to protect his children leaving her fearful and heavily dependent on Ryo for the rest of their childhood. When she was 17, Yuri was kidnapped by Mr. Big (on behalf of Geese Howard). A friendly young girl who always (gets kidnapped) cares about her family, friends, and is the first female practitioner of Kyokugenryu Karate. Yuri uses the lowest-grade version of the Kyokugenryu Karate discipline, she was taught only the basic and low-level moves but she managed to create her own version of the Kyokugen-style (including the signature Ryuuko Ranbu). Yuri can create a ball of energy in her hands to reflect projectiles fire the Ko-Ou Ken and Haoh Shoukou Ken blast normally and gather chi from Gaia. In some games, when Yuri is knocked out with a special move, the top of her costume is torn off!
Shermie
Shermie is a character who first appeared in The King of Fighters ’97 as a member of the New Face Team. She is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi but the true origins of the Orochi fighter known as Shermie are shrouded in mystery. Shermie played the keyboards, along with Yashiro Nanakase and Chris form a music band called “CYS” (based on the first letter of the name of each member). They enter the KOF tournament due to Yashiro’s grudge against a rival, Band of Fighters bassist, Iori Yagami. Shermie is very outgoing and friendly as she doesn’t seem to take battle too seriously, often dancing around and using her cellphone during battle. Shermie blows kisses towards male characters she finds attractive before battles. When not using Orochi power, she relies on grappling combat style and is quite agile using some gymnastics moves. She performs a variety of body slams, most involving acrobatic moves, counter throws, plus she can grab and throw anyone in spite of their weight.
Sylvie Paula Paula
Sylvie Paula Paula is a new character in The King of Fighters XIV. One of the last remnants of NESTS, Sylvie was considered useless by the secret society until the day she demonstrated her electromagnetic powers. After the cartel’s collapse, she was scouted by future employer Antonov during an underground fighting event and was later hired along with Mian and Kukri as part of his Official Invitation Team. Sylvie is a cheerful and innocent, yet strange and childlike individual. Her mind has been affected by the experiments performed on her to bring about her abilities, so she considers the objects she wears and a voice inside her head as her “friends”. Sylvie can take matters seriously and is trying to overcome her past trauma so she feels a certain kinship with fellow NESTS experiment Kula Diamond. Sylvie can control electricity, allowing her to propel herself across the ground and into the air, using her electrokinesis. Her fighting style is heavily centered around electrical manipulation mixed with her own odd improvised form of martial arts.
Zarina
Zarina is a new character who debuts in The King of Fighters XIV. Zarina fights hard to protect the nesting place of her toucan companion “Coco” whose species is facing the threat of extinction. She reveals to her teammates that she was able to procure the land she wanted with Antonov’s help, as he already had purchased much of the land for one of his businesses. Although the others assume she had won him over by appealing to his emotions, she gleefully admits she simply kicked him in the crotch instead. Zarina is a nice and cheerful person, but as noted above, isn’t above resorting to dirty tricks to get what she wants. Zarina can infuse her attacks with chi, usually in the shape of flowers. Fond of samba dance, she uses her dancing skills to kick her opponents in rhythm. Zarina fights using various kicking and dancing skills resembling Capoeira.
Love Heart
Love Heart is the main character of one of SNK Pachinko game series Sky Love and a new fighter in The King of Fighters XIV. Love Heart is the captain of the Elicion III. Like her father who was killed, she is a skilled fighter who is strong enough to fire two bazookas at once. She wears her father’s keepsake around her neck, which can grant her mysterious powers. Love was transported from her world by a dimension disturbance. She is approached by Nakoruru who requests her help to investigate the phenomenon, after Verse’s defeat, Love expresses her wishes to return home but Nakoruru instead decides to drag her along to explore their new world first, much to Love’s annoyance. Love is a serious, righteous, charismatic leader of the Sky Pirates, dedicated to fighting for freedom. Love fights with a magical sword and flies around
Mian
Mian is a new character in The King of Fighters XIV. Mian is a Sichuan opera dancer and woman fighter who joins Sylvie Paula Paula in underground tournaments. Despite her high dancing skills, Mian is an extremely shy person and doesn’t drop her mask often, except for rare instances where she displays self-confidence. Sometimes, she can be a little greedy when it comes to her contract for money and one of her own desires. Mian’s fighting style is a hybrid of martial arts and Sichuanese opera.
Luong
Luong is a new character introduced in The King of Fighters XIV. Luong is the femme fatale fighter with mysterious motivations. She met Gang-Il during his world tour and fell in love with him. A seductive woman of elegance, Luong likes to “play” with her opponents and feels excited in the heat of battle. Outside of battle, she shows less of her cold side and rather shows affection towards Gang-il and his star student Kim, much to the latter’s dismay. Luong is able to stretch and snap her legs swiftly and at an extreme range like a whip, similar to Duo Lon. Luong fights with an as-yet unidentified fighting style, although it is one that greatly emphasizes her kicks, agility, flexibility, and acrobatics. She is also shown breaking necks, whether from an accurate kick or as part of a standing head scissors grab.
Mui Mui
Mui Mui is the main protagonist from SNK’s pachislot game series, Dragon Gal. Mui Mui is the last successor of the dragon clan martial arts and a master of Kung-fu. With her ancient dragon blood, she can transform into her adult self. Mui Mui travels on a never-ending quest to find gems with mysterious powers. She’s a girl who’s always hearty and hungry like a wolf. Due to her dragon blood, Mui Mui possesses superior strength and can easily crush large boulders. her fighting style is classic kung-fu from ancient times.
Terry Bogard
Terry Bogard is the main protagonist of the Fatal Fury series and Japanese stereotypes for an American. He is often referred to as the Legendary Hungry Wolf and has a pet monkey named Ukee. Terry and his brother were orphans who raised themselves on the streets until being adopted by Jeff Bogard. Terry witnessed his father death at the hands of Geese Howard when he was 10. A decade later, Terry defeated Geese and then his half-brother Wolfgang Krauser a year later. Some time much later Geese who survived multiple repeated encounters with Terry over the years and started up yet another tournament for one final conflict. At the end of this fighting tournament, Terry ended up knocked Geese off the edge of Geese Tower (where the finals were held). He grabbed hold of Geese’s hand but Geese knocked Terry’s hand away, plummeting to his so-called permanent death laughing so Terry adopted his son, Rock Howard! His specialty is accurately guessing a woman’s measurements just by glancing at her & making 50 3-pointer shots in a row
Terry Bogard is an incredibly charismatic, cheerful and friendly man with everyone around him other than Geese Howard. Terry has an incredible power energy, he can sense the presence of people nearby, gather chi energy from Gaia to increase the damage of his normal attacks or fire projectiles of energy that travels through the ground, creating massive geysers of energy and summon extra rows of geysers with a single punch or wave his fist to create more. Terry can also create fire to surround his limbs for delivering a Burn Knuckle or powerful jumping axe kick (Crack Shoot). Terry uses a mixture of boxing, kickboxing, karate, kung fu and street fighting moves to create a very unique fighting style, mixed in with chi techniques, experience gained from brawling on the streets for years to hone proper techniques to his tastes. Terry is an all-around fighter, with extensive knowledge of many martial arts techniques.
Kukri
Kukri is a new character in The King of Fighters XIV. Kukri is a mysterious fighter that lives in the underground society. He hides his face with a hood at all times. Nobody knows his true identity. He is familiar with Verse, especially with the monster’s half-power within Shun’ei. He has been hired by Elisabeth to enter the King of Fighters XIV Tournament to find and rescue Ash, whose soul resides inside Verse. At first glance, Kukri comes off as a very rude, foul-mouthed, arrogant and sadistic fighter. However, it’s shown that Kukri is very observant and has a good side in him. Kukri has the power of sand in order to trick, attack, and defend against his opponents.
It has been revealed that Terry Bogard from SNK’s Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series will be joining the roster of Fighting EX Layer. All of this was shown in a special “upcoming plans” video for Fighting EX Layer which revealed that Pullum Purna and Vulcano Rosso will be added as part of a game update at the end of August or September. Area and Sharon were also teased. Remember that these fighters are completely free of cost!
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will add nine new characters via the Character Packs 4, 5, and 6 add-ons due out on August 6, developer Arc System Works announced following the BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Finals at Evo 2018.
Yuzuriha Sougetsu (Blade of Godspeed/Hyde’s other Waifu), is a playable character and one of the supporting protagonists, whose family was one of the known associates of Night Blade until their defections, in Under Night In-Birth and its updates. She uses to be a childhood friend of Hyde Kido, and often training together in a kendo training sessions.
Mai Natsume,(Pure Grimoire), is the Mai is the heir of the Hazuki family, one of the Twelve Originators noble families. One day, Mai had an encounter with a grimoire that permanently transformed her into a girl. Mai would later go on to attend the Torifune Military Academy and met a little artificial human girl known as Bell, whose body eventually becomes Platinum the Trinity and her soul become a part of the legendary weapon Outseal, Mai’s current main weapon.
Merkava is very unique for a Void who can enter the real world, due to his amount of powers and human intelligence, having once been a human until he was consumed by the power of Existence, Merkava is driven by the instinct to consume EXS. Merkava is also suspected to be a murder of Orie Ballardiae’s parents. Being a Void, Merkava can only consume EXS and cannot actually use it anymore, which is now transformed as an FLS. He wields the FLS of The Basilisk: Jormungandr, which grants him the ability to morph his body and sprouting wings to take flight.
Mika Returna (Fauster/Orie Bestie) is a member of Licht Kreis, holding the rank of “Tenth Executor”. She is a dear friend of Orie, and there is no force or being on Earth, human, In-Birth, Void, Re-Birth or otherwise, that will keep her from fighting alongside her. Once imprisoned as punishment, Mika dugged her way out of her cell with a spoon, steal a plane, crash it en route to Japan, and make the rest of the voyage on a homemade raft while fighting her way through the coast guard; so unwavering is her loyalty in Orie.
Konoe Ayatsuki Mercury, a.k.a. Nine the Phantom (Fallen Great Mage/Jubei’s Waifu) Originally one of the Six Heroes, alongside Hakumen, her husband Jubei Mitsuyoshi, and the eventual traitor Yuuki Terumi. She is also the older sister of Celica. Nine ended up being killed and throw to the Cauldron and as a result of her soul spending time within the cauldron and sees an awful truth, Nine’s mind becoming insane and she is planning to destroy her own universe as a resurrected vengeful revenant.
Kihiko Sanada (The Two-Fisted Protein Junkie/Chie Satonaka’s master) is one of the three founding members of the S.E.E.S., other being Mitsuru Kirijo and his fellow childhood orphan friend Shinjiro Aragaki. He was captain of the Gekkoukan High Boxing Club and would go on to cross the globe, honing his skills as a boxer while also aiding Mitsuru when she calls upon him for help. He also dreams to become a policeman in the future.
Mitsuru Kirijo (The Imperious Queen of Executions) is the only child of Takeharu Kirijo, who sacrificed his life saving her and her friends and reprogram Aegis’s mind back from Shuji Ikutsuki, the mastermind behind the Dark Hour. Mitsuru has battled the Shadows longer than any of the other members of SEES, having been trained since a young age to use her Persona. Now a well-rounded fighter who uses her rapier to poke and attack her opponents at a distance, Mitsuru uses misdirection to open up and exploit weaknesses in her foe’s guard while using her Persona Artemesia to attack with ice.
Labrys, known by her unit number 031 (Yasogami’s Steel Council President/ Aegis’”big sister”) is a 5th-Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon. Labrys was created using the personality of a young girl from Kansai dying of illness as a template for her own personality. Being the strongest of the 5th Generation, Labrys’s fighting capabilities are far above average and were only strengthened when she gained a Persona. Using her multi-use weapon, a giant axe that she is strong enough to swing with ease, she can easily do massive damage to any opponent she comes across.
Tsubaki Yayoi (Scarlet Wings of Justice/ Jin/Hakumen’s Waifu) is a dear friend of Noel Vermillion, Makoto Nanaya and Mai Natsume, and the childhood friend of Jin Kisaragi, who also in the pursuit of justice, took up the dangerous weapon known as “Sealed Justice: Izayoi”. Ever since she was a child, she admired Hakumen of the Six Heroes. Nine the Phantom’s mind control spells awakened Izayoi’s true power Zero Vessel form known simply as Izayoi corrupted Tsubaki’s good nature, however, she was able to break free of the Izanami and Nine’s control to take Izayoi’s power for herself.
Character Pack 4 ($4.99)
Izayoi (BlazBlue)
Mitsuru Kirijo (Persona 4 Arena)
Merkava (Under Night In-Birth)
Character Pack 5 ($4.99)
Mai Natsume (BlazBlue)
Akihiko Sanda (Persona 4 Arena)
Yuzuhira (Under Night In-Birth)
Character Pack 6 ($4.99)
Nine The Phantom (BlazBlue)
Labyrs (Persona 4 Arena)
Mika (Under Night In-Birth)
These characters will all be released August 6, 2018.
Kill la Kill the Game was first announced last month after a mysterious countdown appeared as a joint project between Arc System Works, APlus Games, and Studio Trigger though we were told we would need to wait until Anime Expo to see the game’s first trailer.
This new trailer shows Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuuin battling it out in Mako’s neighborhood this game will play with whether it will play more like a 3D arena fighter like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm. Kill la Kill the Game: IF’s first public playable demo will be at EVO 2018
Another new character reveals & this time from SNK their hungry like a wolf, who is it, Terry Bogard, no it Mui Mui that’s been announced as a playable character in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. The guys over at EventHubs learned of Mui Mui’s inclusion on the SNK Heroines roster by way of the game’s trophies about two weeks ago.
SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy said that they will have 14 playable characters at launch and we have 13 of them officially revealed, so the only remaining mystery is if it’s Terry. SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy comes out on the PlayStation 4 & Nintendo Switch September 7th, 2018.
My Hero One’s Justice will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 26 in the Americas and Europe & pre-orders will include the ability to play as Endeavor, which makes no sense with the game’s full roster of playable characters already announced.
Though I may have called Endeavor as a playable character months ago, even if he’s DLC it’s still 15 Heros Vs 5 Villians, which for the villains’ side is seriously lacking!
Bandai Namco has released the official overview trailer for Black Clover: Quartet Knights, which introduces the game’s roles, stages & customization which I had to cut for time, so I choose to focus on the story mode. Black Clover: Quartet Knights is due out for PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam on September 14 in the Americas and Europe.
Talim, The Last Priestess of the Winds, fights with her elbow blades in this latest installment of the series. This fast-moving fighter has the ability to control the wind, several of Talim’s attacks incorporate large gusts of wind. Revealing Talim familiar fighting style Talim fans love with some new tools added to her arsenal. Thank you Bandai Namco for bringing Talim back, Soul Calibur 6 is due out October 19th, 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, & PC.
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The five remaining new playable characters BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is set to debut during Arc Nama SP live stream on September 22 at 11:00 JST aka September 21, at 21:00 CST.
The free version 2.0 update, due out on November 21, will include major balance adjustments for every character along with the Version 2.0 Content Pack which includes nine additional playable characters, a new scenario, new character interactions and colors.
Additionally, the company announced more downloadable content fighters are in development because obviously, Nintendo isn’t stupid.
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