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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is an absolute failure with critics and audiences

The CEO of SNK, Kenji Matsubara, has stepped down just weeks before the launch of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, amid a critical context for the company. Although the reason for his departure has not been officially confirmed, it is speculated that the game’s performance and the effectiveness of the advertising campaign have played a significant role in this decision. Neither critics nor the public show interest in the game. Despite receiving good ratings on Steam and an 80 on Metacritic, City of the Wolves has not managed to meet expectations […]

The CEO of SNK, Kenji Matsubara, has stepped down just weeks before the release of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, amid a critical context for the company. Although the official reason for his departure has not been confirmed, it is speculated that the game’s performance and the effectiveness of the advertising campaign have played a significant role in this decision.

Neither the critics nor the public are interested in the game

Despite receiving good ratings on Steam and an 80 on Metacritic, City of the Wolves has not met sales expectations. In its first eleven days, the game sold only 6,302 copies in Japan and reached a peak of 4,674 simultaneous players on Steam, figures that fall short of its beta and other competing titles like Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6. Despite an unprecedented advertising campaign that included high-profile sporting events and a notable collaboration with figures like Cristiano Ronaldo, the game failed to make it into the top 20 bestsellers on PS5 in both North America and Europe.

During his tenure, Matsubara led a transformation at SNK, seeking to expand its development division and strengthening its sales and marketing areas with a global vision. However, the failure of ‘City of the Wolves’ has called into question the effectiveness of these strategies. With Matsubara’s departure, the company now faces the challenge of redefining its strategy in a competitive market.

The current situation of SNK is critical, and its ability to manage this transition and return the company to the path of profitability will be essential for its future. Matsubara, who will continue as an advisor, leaves a mixed legacy in one of the most iconic developers in the world of video games.

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The characters for the second season of Street Fighter 6 have been revealed

Street Fighter 6 anuncia cuáles serán sus próximos personajes que aparecerán en su pase de batalla de personajes, con muchas grandes sorpresas

Capcom doesn’t know rest. Street Fighter 6 has been a success, and they’re making sure it stays that way by including new characters, without hurry but also without pause. With a seasonal system, where each season introduces a series of characters, they’ve just finished their first season in style with the inclusion of a classic among classics, the fearsome Akuma. But this doesn’t mean that everything is finished for Street Fighter 6.

In preparation for the game’s second season, Capcom revealed during the past Summer Game Fest which characters will be arriving for year two of Street Fighter 6’s Character Pass. All of them are very surprising inclusions that caught fans off guard.

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The most surprising change was the inclusion of Terry and Mai, from the Fatal Fury franchise. In the 90s, Fatal Fury from SNK was the big franchise that competed with Street Fighter, and there was a very public rivalry between the developers of both studios. That’s why the appearance of the two most iconic characters from this franchise as guest characters in Street Fighter 6 is, to say the least, surprising. But we’re grateful for the enormous personality and tremendous fandom they bring with them.

From the characters returning from Capcom’s franchise, we saw just as many surprises. Elena returns, whose last appearance was in Ultra Street Fighter IV, and even more surprisingly, M. Bison returns. Deceased in Street Fighter V, M. Bison returns amnesic, with a new, darker aesthetic and a faster fighting style. His appearance here is a nightmare to all Street Fighter players who remember what it means for M. Bison to come back from the dead and show off an agile movement.

If you’re interested in these characters, we already have dates for all of them. M. Bison will arrive this summer, Terry in the fall, Mai in winter 2025, and Elena in spring 2025. This means we already know who will be the main actors in the next season of Street Fighter 6. And we couldn’t be more delighted with this peculiar selection.

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A new installment of a classic fighting game franchise will arrive in 2025

Fatal Fury returns with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, a new installment of Garou: Mark of the Wolves, which promises to bring back the best of the franchise.

The landscape of fighting games in the 90s and 00s is nothing like the current landscape. While today there is an important niche with anime fighting games and a scene dominated by Tekken, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Guilty Gear, there was a time when this was not so simple. There were very regular releases of games in this genre, with names and companies dominating the discourse that have now been practically forgotten. Or at least, relegated to the background.

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One of these names is SNK. They are now going to revive one of their most beloved franchises, the classic Fatal Fury, with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

With a release date set for early 2025, this game was originally announced with an extremely brief and uninformative teaser in August 2022 during the EVO celebration. The biggest fighting game tournament in the world. Now we have been given a deeper look at the game, allowing us to gather the first details about it.

In this nearly three-minute trailer, we can gather quite a few things. The cel shading style of the characters with 3D background models seems to be inherited from another SNK game, King of Fighters, and five characters have already been confirmed, four of them returning from the original with a new addition in the form of the mysterious Preecha.

In terms of gameplay, it strongly resembles a combination of Garou: Mark of the Wolves and Real Bout Fatal Fury. That is, a fast-paced game with combo chains and a powerful blocking system based on parry – the Just Defend system. Additionally, there seems to be some kind of special attack reminiscent of Street Fighter 6’s Drive, but it is still unclear how it will work in practice.

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Nevertheless, we won’t have to wait long to know more. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves won’t be released until 2024, but it will be playable at the upcoming EVO Japan, which will take place from April 27th to 29th in Tokyo, Japan.