The developer known for its classic 2D fighters has seen many ups and downs.
It has been hard to see one of the most important companies in the fighting game genre go through all these struggles over the years. While it's true that Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat have become the dominant franchises in the genre, SNK's classic series helped the genre flourish with a multitude of innovations that its rivals adapted and improved upon. If you have never played any of them, give one a try. You'll be taking in a full dose of gaming history, and will be ready for whatever SNK has up its sleeves for the next few years.
Epic Games is facing a $1.2 million fine by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets over "unfair practices" in the Fortnite shop.
It might be cheaper to simply pay the fine. Fighting said fine could cost millions due to court and lawyer fees. Fortnite generates well over a 100 million in each month, so Epic has plenty of cash.
But if they did pay it, then they are basically admitting that they did something they weren’t supposed to be doing. If they fight it, they may win and continue to have a sense of urgency for their micro transactions thus making more money long term.
The OS works, but it barely crawls along on the Nintendo Switch's older ARM chipset.
Yeaaa... no. It's cool to say that you got it running as a bragging right, but this is completely unusable. I like how he hits the screen while trying to type! X'D
Nexon has released its financial statement for 2024's first quarter, and it looks like FPS The Finals isn't proving the hit the studio was hoping for.
The market for games like this is too over saturated to make a dent in other established games' player counts. Trying to start all over with a whole new multiplayer meta and grinding to get better is not feasible when there's already a ton of similar games that have come out before it.
Decent article, but it was Takara that did the home ports, not Tanaka.
SNK in 2023 and the future is fine now. They just got bought out by a Saudi Arabian firm that grew up on their games. They stated a goal of creating AAA games now. So SNK is in their kitchen whipping up that heat for us. It's about to get crazy.