SNK has revealed Hokutomaru as a playable character in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. The disciple who trained under Andy Bogard and Mai Shiranui will not only make his return from Garou: Mark of the Wolves; he will also complete the launch roster for the fighting game.

SNK has also ed the Hokutomaru trailer in two language versions. The first one confirms Junya Enoki as the character's new Japanese voice actor. The voice actor change from Junko Takeuchi will show how Hokutomaru has grown up over two in-universe years since his debut in Garou: Mark of the Wolves, where he was 14 years old.

The other trailer showcases the English voiceover mode, where the same character is voiced by Caleb Yen:

Previously, during the Tokyo Game Show 2024, SNK announced that City of the Wolves would have 17 playable characters at launch. With the newest addition of Hokutomaru, the character list on the new Fatal Fury game's official website has also reached that number. The launch roster will also include two guest characters based on real-world celebrities: the soccer/football player Cristiano Ronaldo and the DJ Salvatore Ganacci.

Here is the full launch roster for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves:

1. Rock Howard
2. Terry Bogard
3. B. Jenet
4. Marco Rodrigues
5. Preecha
6. Hotaru Futaba
7. Vox Reaper
8. Tizoc a.k.a. Griffon Mask
9. Kevin Rian
10. Billy Kane
11. Mai Shiranui
12. Kim Dong Hwan
13. Gato
14. Kain R. Heinlein
15. Cristiano Ronaldo
16. Salvatore Ganacci
17. Hokutomaru

The game's overall roster will eventually increase from 17 to 22. SNK will gradually add Andy Bogard, Ken Masters, Joe Higashi, Chun-Li, and Mr. Big as post-launch DLC characters. Players can also purchase the first Season to guarantee access to the extra characters as soon as they are available.

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will be available worldwide for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on April 24, 2025.

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SNK revealed way ahead of April Fools' Day 2025 that it will formally add Cristiano Ronaldo as a playable character in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves at launch. This means players of the fighting game will be able to have the famous soccer/football player duke it out with the likes of Terry Bogard, Mai Shiranui, and Billy Kane.

Even though Cristiano Ronaldo is also known to be proficient in English, the athlete will not voice his own character in this fighting game. Juan Felipe Sierra will instead become the voice actor who provides the English voiceovers for the character, as shown in the new official trailer below:

City of the Wolves will have an option to toggle the voiceover languages between English and Japanese, and that means a Japanese dub for CR7 will also be available. SNK has simultaneously ed the Japanese version of the trailer, which features voiceovers by Masaaki Mizunaka:

As a side note, investment from Saudi Arabia to SNK may have played a major role in this addition. The Electronic Gaming Development Company under the Saudi MiSK Foundation notably acquired a majority of SNK's shares in the early 2020s. As of 2025, Cristiano Ronaldo is playing for the Al Nassr club in the Roshn Saudi Pro League.

Cristiano Ronaldo will not be the only guest character appearing in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. SNK revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2024 that it will also bring Ken and Chun-Li from Street Fighter 6 via the first Season , which will gradually add new playable characters throughout 2025.

SNK will release Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC simultaneously worldwide on April 24, 2025.

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SNK announced that it will hold the second open beta test for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves in late March 2025. Players all over the world can get another opportunity to try out the new Fatal Fury fighting game for free with nine playable characters, including Tizoc, in four available stages.

The new open beta test will launch worldwide on March 27, 2025, with exceptions for Mountain, Pacific, and further western time zones that will see the beta go live on March 26, 2025, at 11 PM MDT or 10 PM PDT. Those in the Eastern US time zone can access the beta test from March 27, 2025, at 1 AM until March 31, 2025, at 4 AM.

For the record, SNK held the first open beta test on February 20-25, 2025. It featured eight playable characters: Rock Howard, Terry Bogard, Hotaru Futaba, Mai Shiranui, B. Jenet, Preecha, Vox Reaper, and Kain R. Heinlein. The second open beta will have the addition of Tizoc, the Fatal Fury series recurring wrestler who is also known in the Japanese release as the Griffon Mask.

The second open beta test for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will run on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC worldwide on March 27-31, 2025. SNK will release the full game on all aforementioned platforms the following month on April 24, 2025.

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Hamster is gradually releasing a new arcade port of SNK's KOF 98 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S to kickstart its Arcade Archives 2 lineup. Arcade Archives 2 Neo Geo: The King of Fighters '98 has newly appeared on the Japanese PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. Hamster has also indicated on its official website that it will release the same versions worldwide, including in North America.

The company has also published a webpage that explains the new features in Arcade Archives 2 that did not exist in the previous ports. Some of the brand-new features include 5-second rewinds and the increase of Original Mode save slots from 1 to 4, with an additional quick-save slot. Some of the games will also have an additional Time Attack mode and a Network Mode that lets people play online via the internet.

The new Arcade Archives 2 version is available at ¥1,100 / $9.99. However, s who have already purchased the original Arcade Archives port of the same game on the PS4 or Xbox One will be able to get the respective newer console versions at just ¥330 / $2.99.

The King of Fighters 98 is one of the series' timeless entries that have received many unique releases. In November 2024, Tanita revealed a body health monitor that includes a fully playable KOF '98 game with a tax-inclusive price tag of 2.2 million yen (~$14,380).

Arcade Archives 2 Neo Geo: The King of Fighters 98 is available worldwide on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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SNK has revealed more playable characters coming to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves both at and after launch, which includes Kain R. Heinlein. The company has also published many trailers related to the new announcements on its YouTube channel.

Kain R. Heinlein will be one of the characters available at launch in City of the Wolves. The Japanese voiceover trailer reveals how Yuichi Nakamura voices the character:

An English version of the same trailer is also available simultaneously. It reveals Brett Calo as the English voice actor for the same character.

Kain will also appear as one of the eight characters available in the Open Beta Test for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. People worldwide will be able to play an earlier build of the game before its release from February 20 until February 24, 2025, in Pacific Standard Time, or February 25, 2025, for the rest of the world.

The other seven characters available in the Open Beta Test besides Kain will be Mai Shiranui, Rock Howard, Terry Bogard, B. Jenet, Hotaru Futaba, Preecha, and Vox Reaper.

SNK has also revealed the full Season 1 DLC character roster. The company had previously announced at Tokyo Game Show 2024 that it would add Ken and Chun-Li from Street Fighter 6 in Summer 2025 and Winter 2025, respectively. The remaining three characters newly revealed will be Andy Bogard in Summer 2025, Joe Higashi in Fall 2025, and Mr. Big in early 2026.

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will be available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, and PC worldwide on April 24, 2025.

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Tanita has been working on the production of a measuring device modeled after SNK's Neo Geo cabinets. The company has newly announced that the Neo Geo-like device, which will consist of a clock, thermometer, and hygrometer, will also contain BGMs from SNK's games like The King of Fighters '95.

In the Japanese announcement tweet, the company noted that it chose KOF '95 because its staff considered the game to be a hallmark in the series for introducing the Team Edit System. The same staff are also choosing specific tunes that would symbolize the entry.

The King of Fighters '95 will not be the only game to have its soundtrack featured on this device. Tanita has also shared teaser images for three more titles in the same announcement. As an example, the lower left image is based on the Japanese logo for Garou Densetsu Special, which is better known in the West as Fatal Fury Special.

Here is the source announcement tweet from Tanita's official X :

Tanita has also been working on more game-themed measuring devices with SNK. Previously in late 2024, it revealed a body composition monitor with a playable copy of The King of Fighters '98 that cost 2.2 million yen or around $14,340.

The Neo Geo-shaped measuring device that can act as a clock, thermometer, and hygrometer is still undergoing production. SNK has given its approval to mass-produce the device on January 21, 2025. However, it will still take more time until Tanita is ready to put the product up for pre-orders.

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Capcom released a new Street Fighter 6 Fighting a day ahead of the addition of the Mai Shiranui DLC, and it features a virtual cosplay option. The new , which is titled "Say Hello To Mai!," contains more Fatal Fury-inspired content that includes a set of avatar gear and emotes for players to dress up as one of SNK's most iconic fighting game characters.

The new Street Fighter 6 Fighting includes three music tracks from Fatal Fury Special that feature not only Mai Shiranui's stage, but also ones from Kim Kaphwan and Duck King's stages. In addition, the new sticker lineup features Rock Howard, B. Jenet, Tizoc, Terry Bogard, and Kaphwan's son Kim Dong Hwan, all of which are also slated to appear in SNK's release of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves in April 2025.

Capcom also added one of its arcade games with a closely related theme in the same . The game in question is the 1989 arcade action game Strider, which starred the ninja Strider Hiryu.

Capcom has also published a new official trailer showcasing the Fighting ' content on YouTube, which shows what it would be like to cosplay as Mai Shiranui in Street Fighter 6.

The Street Fighter 6 development team has been in a collaborative mood ever since it added Terry Bogard in September 2024. The Fighting es that appeared around his release added Fatal Fury content that includes avatar gear sets based on Andy Bogard, Joe Higashi, and Geese Howard. The collaboration will also go the other way, as SNK will add Ken and Chun-Li as DLC playable characters in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Street Fighter 6 is readily available worldwide on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Mai Shiranui will formally the game's roster on February 5, 2025.

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Amakuni revealed that it will produce and release a new batch of its The King of Fighters XIV Mai Shiranui figures in 2025. The company will also newly produce a purple 2P color variant, which it did not make when it initially released the figure in 2018.

The original figure with red attire will have no differences from the initial release in 2018. The 1/6 scale static figure will still stand at around 27 cm (~10.63 inches) tall. However, Amakuni will pack the figure with a new box design.

In addition, there is a difference in the price tag between the initial and newer releases. The original figure in 2018 costed 17,500 yen, but both the newer regular and 2P color releases in 2025 will have the same higher price tag of 22,000 yen (~$140.80).

Amakuni primarily puts its figures up for pre-orders on the Hobby Japan Online Shop. However, this website can only accept and ship orders domestically in Japan. People residing elsewhere worldwide outside of Japan and China can alternatively order both the regular and new 2P color variants of the figure on AmiAmi.

The new batch of the 1/6 scale The King of Fighters XIV Mai Shiranui figures by Amakuni will be available between August and September 2025. Amakuni will close the pre-order window for both the regular and 2P color versions on March 6, 2025.

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SNK announced we can now pre-order Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, and the company also shared details about the digital Special and physical Deluxe Editions that will be available. In each case, those additional additions include the Season 1 . SNK also shared another look at the Terry Bogard pre-order bonus costume.

First, here’s how the Terry costume will look if you pre-order Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. While it is his classic look, it is more specifically inspired by Fatal Fury 2. 

The Special Edition is $59.99. It will be available for every platform. That only nets you a copy of the new entry in the fighting game series and the Season 1. That means when all five of the initial DLC characters are released throughout 2025 and 2026, buyers would be guaranteed access. We already know this will include Street Fighter staples Chun-Li and Ken. The first character in the will be out in Summer 2025, just like Ken, but we don’t know who that will be.

The Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Deluxe Edition is more limited. It is $79.99 and only available for the PS5. Like the Deluxe Edition, you get the game and first season . You also get an over 100 page art book with designs from the game, a set of stickers with logos, a poster that has a relationship chart on one side and map on the other, the soundtrack on two CDs, and a Steelbook case. Photos of all of the items already appeared.

You can see how that collector’s edition looks below:

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will come to the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on April 24, 2025. 

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SNK has announced that it will release The King of Fighters XIII: Global Match for PC via Steam on February 20, 2025. The new Global Match version will effectively replace the existing KOF XIII: Steam Edition on PC.

The company had previously released the same version on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in November 2023. The Global Match edition adds an online lobby with spectator mode that can host up to nine players. But it is most known for employing the rollback netcode, which has been deemed essential by the fighting game community and is gradually adapted by many other fighting games, such as Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball FighterZ, Bushiroad's Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact, and Sega's Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.

There is already a KOF XIII: Steam Edition existing on the platform since September 2013. However, SNK will delist the old PC release on January 23, 2025, to make way for Global Match. That means while existing Steam Edition owners can still and access the old version, newcomers will only be able to purchase and play the separate Global Match edition.

Even though SNK has still yet to actually list the prices for Global Match on Steam as of the initial announcement, the company already confirmed that the new version will be purchasable in Japan at 2,970 yen. Players who already have KOF XIII: Steam Edition will receive an exclusive discount to purchase the new PC version at just 1,000 yen.

The King of Fighters XIII: Global Match will be available on PC via Steam on February 20, 2025. The same game is immediately accessible on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

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Capcom has published a new Street Fighter 6 teaser trailer starring the SNK guest character Mai Shiranui. The company confirmed that it will add Mai to the roster in early 2025, which still falls within the previously announced 2024-2025 winter season.

The teaser trailer is available in two voiceover language versions. The one ed on the franchise's official YouTube channel features English voiceovers.

Capcom has also published another version of the trailer with Japanese voiceovers on its Japanese official YouTube channel. It confirms that Ami Koshimizu is reprising her Japanese voiceover role for the character, as with recent SNK titles like Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and The King of Fighters XV, as well as her prior guest appearances in Koei Tecmo's Dead or Alive fighting games.

Mai will appear as the third out of four new playable characters Capcom is adding to Street Fighter 6 in the game's second post-launch year. After starting with the series' staple ex-dictator character M. Bison in June 2024, Capcom followed through with another SNK guest character in Terry Bogard in September 2024. The Street Fighter 3 debutant Elena will complete the Year 2 roster in Spring 2025.

Street Fighter 6 is readily available worldwide on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Mai Shiranui will the roster in Capcom's newest fighting game to date in early 2025.

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SNK’s Evo 2024 announcement for KOF XV confirmed Vice and Mature would the game as DLC characters, and now the company pinned down the release date. Both of them will be available starting on December 12, 2024. That is also when KOF XV Ultimate Edition will launch, as well as a 2.40 rebalancing patch.

The Vice and Mature DLC characters are being sold as a pair for KOF XV. You can get the two of them together for $9.99. Past voice actors are returning to play both of them. Mature is once again voiced by Yu Shimamura, who has been the character since KOF: World. Mayumi Sako is Vice, and has been since KOF XIV. 

As for the KOF XV Ultimate Edition, it will be out on December 12, 2024, and it will cost $59.99. This is how much the standard, base version of the game costs now. For that price, you get the main game, Team es 1 and 2, the Fighter , Vice and Mature, the Terry Bogard Garou costume, and the Leona classic costume. 

There’s no word on what’s next for KOF XV and The King of Fighters series as a whole. Characters like  Duo Lon and Hinako Shijo showed up before Vice and Mature, and they launched in 2023. However, we do know SNK is working on Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. Many KOF mainstays will appear in that game, such as Mai Shiranui, the Bogard brothers, and Rock Howard.

The King of Fighters XV is immediately available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the Vice and Mature DLC characters will debut on December 12, 2024. 

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The visor cap worn by SNK's popular fighting game series character Terry Bogard will appear in the real world. Cospa will produce and sell the cap based on the character's appearance in The King of Fighters XV.

Cospa has also opened pre-orders for the cap at ¥4,730 (~$30.65) with a release window in late March 2025. While the web store only s direct shipments inside Japan, the company allows people outside the country to place orders with third-party forwarding proxies.

Cospa will use pure polyester and cotton to produce these caps. The item will be most compatible with people who have a head diameter between 58~60 cm (22.83~23.62 inches). The company will make sure the Fatal Fury logo on the front side is embroidered accurately to the in-game model. The cap's back side will also have a snap fastener to match SNK's setting descriptions.

Here are some of the sample images for the character-based cap:

The King of Fighters XV's Terry Bogard visor cap will be available in the real world in late March 2025. People can get a guaranteed stock of the product if they have placed an order by December 15, 2024.

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Health equipment manufacturer Tanita announced a new line of machines designed to check your body health while playing KOF ’98. Four different pieces of equipment are featured as part of this collaboration, and they are now available for pre-order from the Tanita online store. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

The Tanita multi-frequency body composition monitor The King of Fighters model is the first and most expensive item in the lineup, costing 2.2 million yen (or approximately $14,380.) Aside from monitoring the body and condition of its by offering data on weight, body fat, muscle mass, body water percentage, and various metabolic functions and statistics, the machine lets people get a health check while they play KOF ’98.

The body monitor includes a 10.4-inch LCD monitor used to display body health information and to play the 5th title in The King of Fighters series. Additionally, the machine is decorated with art from KOF ’98 featuring the main cast of the game. You can check out the machine here:

The other equipment includes a pedometer equipped with a 3D sensor featuring motifs inspired by the Neo Geo arcade system, as well as a digital thermo-hygrometer available in a Neo Geo model and a The King of Fighters model featuring character Kyo Kusanagi. Both the pedometer and thermo-hygrometer cost 3,520 yen (~$23) each.

Here’s a look at the remaining items:

The release of the new The King of Fighters themed Tanita health equipment coincides with the series’ 30th anniversary, which SNK celebrated on August 25, 2024 by opening a new official website and social media s.

The new The King of Fighters health equipment that lets s play KOF ’98 is now available for pre-order. The King of Fighters XV is the latest title in the series and it is readily available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.

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Street Fighter 6 players can now dress up their avatars and make them look like Geese Howard. Capcom made it possible by launching the "Fatal Fury Festivities" Fighting , which features a set of Avatar Gear based on the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series character.

The new Street Fighter 6 also includes an avatar emote that lets players replicate Geese Howard's fall scene. It also adds three stage themes based on Geese, Billy Kane, and Wolfgang Kra from Fatal Fury Special. The bonus stickers also feature more Fatal Fury series characters like Gato, Hotaru Futaba, and Marco Rodrigues.

Capcom's 1991 arcade game The King of Dragons fills out the Classic Game slot to complete the Fighting content lineup.

Capcom also shared a new trailer that showcases the new content from the "Fatal Fury Festivities" Fighting :

Capcom has been adding numerous content from SNK's fighting games to Street Fighter 6. Prior to Terry Bogard's appearance as a proper playable character in September 2024, Capcom released a Fighting that featured Avatar Gear sets based on Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi. The crossover content will not end here, as Capcom will also add Mai Shiranui to the proper playable roster.

The "Fatal Fury Festivities" Fighting is now available in Street Fighter 6 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC worldwide.

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