Month: December 2016

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Athena’s Classic The King of Fighters ’98 Costume Is Now Available for The King of Fighters XIV in North America

Following the costume’s release a couple of days ago in Europe and China, the classic King of Fighters ’98 costume for Athena Asamiya is now out for The King of Fighters XIV owners in North America. While the costume is part of a holiday pack in Europe, the costume comes by itself in North America. While this omission doesn’t really affect the game itself, it does mean that North American players are missing out on a couple of well-made PlayStation 4 themes, complete with custom music and icons.

Athena’s classic KOF ’98 costume is currently available for free for North America for an unspecified amount of time. Interested players should head on over the PlayStation Store to download it.

Source: PlayStation Store

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– Space Hulk: Deathwing; Not Quite Dead in Space

Rob’s back this week with a preview of the new Space Hulk first person shooter Deathwing. Not to be confused with the turn based electronic board game Space Hulk that came out in 2013 or the Space Hulk from EA back in 1993. It can be terribly confusing. Read on for more details.

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Street Fighter V Servers Will Be Down for “Urgent Maintenance” This Morning

Some post-launch cleanup for Season 2?

Since that big patch rolled out Tuesday night, there have been complaints about the Street Fighter V server stability, particularly in Ranked and Casual matches:

Capcom is taking the SFV servers down for an hour this morning–between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM PST–for “urgent server maintenance&#8221$$ hopefully to address this Season 2 launch hiccup.

Here’s hoping SFV online is running smoother when they come back up at noon.

Source: SFV Server (Twitter)

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Microsoft Studios Reimagines Chief Thunder’s Look with the Help of the Nez Perce Tribe

Chief Thunder has been one of the favorite characters across the Killer Instinct series since its inception. He has, however, been seen as a negative stereotype of Native Americans based on his original design. This has been something that Microsoft Studios has aimed to correct since acquiring Rare. While they initially got his look closer to accuracy, it just wasn’t enough. So what is a design team supposed to do?

They brought in the experts. The result of a collaborative effort between the design team and the Nez Perce tribe of Lapwai, Idaho, the Legend of Thunder costume is meant to be the most faithful representation of a Native American in any game to date.

This new skin for Chief Thunder is free for owners of Killer Instinct on both Xbox One and Windows 10.

Source: Xbox