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Whether on a physical keyboard or a pocket phone screen, it seems typing is one of 2013's biggest crazes. Why, I'm typing these words right now! Video games are catching onto this retro trend too, as Sega dropped The Typing of the Dead Overkill, and now Skullgirls is joining in. The fighting game's getting a new mode, 'The Typing of the Skullgirls Encore,' which has players typing phrases to pull off Super moves.
Skullgirls is in for a bumpy spell at the end of the year as it switches publishers, being temporarily delisted from the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store before returning as Skullgirls Encore. What exactly this means for its players, and any DLC they own, depends on where in the world they are.
Skullgirls, the cult 2D fighter, is finally coming to PC next month.
Skullgirls studio Lab Zero hit a snag with cashing in its crowd-funds, as PayPal was reluctant to release the money for fear that dissatisfied customers would ask for a chargeback.
Skullgirls' crowd-funding effort ended at nearly $830,000, reaching the stretch goals for several new characters, voice packs, and new stages.
Shutting down the team behind a game usually spells more than a mite of trouble for a game, but Skullgirls is recovering nicely after Reverge Labs laid off its makers last June. The team reformed as Lab Zero Games, is working on a PC version, and is now receiving huge sums of money from fans crowdfunding DLC characters for the hand-drawn fighting game. You can chip in too, if you fancy.
Autumn Games has signed a deal with Marvelous AQL to publish Skullgirls on PC. The developer plans to start work on it in the next few weeks, and estimates it will take four months to complete.
Skullgirls is getting a large patch on PlayStation 3 tomorrow, and sometime in the future on 360, which includes a host of new features, modes, balance adjustments, and bug fixes.
A bank is accusing Konami and Autumn Games of fraud, after requesting a loan to help finance Def Jam Rapstar. The bank says the companies used faulty numbers and false promises of repayment timing to secure the loan.
Skullgirls will be coming to the PC later this year, with several improvements that will also hit consoles through patches.
