FORWARD THINKING

or fans that have been following since the Neo Geo days, the extended wait between new entries in series must be agonising.  was first mentioned at an SNK investor’s conference in 2018, with the aim of a 2020 release, and the game was officially announced with a logo reveal at the Evolution Championship Series in 2019. The game was pushed to 2021, with character reveals and more beginning at the start of the year, but by June the game had been delayed to 2022 with SNK citing difficulties in developing the game during the COVID-19 pandemic.