Arcadia Magazine [Jan 2011] - Preview

 The new issue of Arcadia was released today, mine should hopefully be shipping tomorrow and arrive in about a week. No indication of anything KOF/SNKP related from the previews on Arcadia's official site but of course as always i'll post up if there is any. Hopefully there will be some information about the NESiCA x Live titles at least.For those who want to order the magazine themself, you can get it over on Playasia for about £16 (including...

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Orochinagi XBL KOF02UM - Beginners and Scrubs Online Tournament

Orochinagi member Giga_D has been hosting the XBL Beginners and Scrubs online tournament, with the first having taken place this past Monday.Results for that tournament are as follows:You can see the rest of the matches i played here on my Youtube channel, unfortunately because there is no way to view other people's matches there are only the matches i played.The sign ups for the next one are taking place now, with the actual tournament running next...

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SNKP's Interview with Dr. Neo Geo

SNKP has published a short interview with Neo Geo Hakase (Dr.Neo Geo), the producer of KOF02UM, on their Facebook page.Considering Dr.Neo Geo's blog is normally in Japanese this is a rare chance to read an interview with him in English.See below for the interview c&p from the SNKP on XBLA facebook page, and enjoy!INTERVIEW WITH NEOGEO HAKASE THE PRODUCER OF KOF 2002 UMBeing the fruits of endless 3-on-3 versus fighting game development for almost two decades, KOF 2002 comes back to the fighting gaming scene by offering the most playable character...

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Arcadia Magazine [Dec 2010] - A Quick Look

Bit late this month due to Playasia not automatically invoicing for this issue, plus the usual one week to be delivered, but my issue of Arcadia came through the door this morning.This months issue's cover feature is the latest Gundam VS game, and comes with some sort of Darius soundtrack CD as a bonus gift.Minimal KOFXIII news (i wouldn't expect too much from now on since it's already been out on arcades for quite a while now), but i've taken pictures...

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The Collection of Drafts about SNK Design Works - A Quick Look

As i mentioned in the previous blog entry i came across this mook as a friend helps me look for SNKP/Neo Geo related goods in Japan, apparently it only cost him 100Y (about 77p!!) but after shipping costs it cost me a bit more than that...The mook itself was published in 1996, and is vol.40 in the Gamest Mook series.As you can guess by the title it is a collection of sketches and designs of some of the older SNK titles. In terms of KOF content it...

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Parcel From Japan, some old SNK Goods

A friend of mine who is currently living in Japan occasionally helps me buy things from Yahoo Auction, received a fairly large box today full of different things so thought i'd show some of the SNK stuff.First up several KOF keychains, fairly dirty due to age, but they were only Y100 (77p) each.From the looks of it they were produced as KOF95 goods, not quite as nice as some of the other ones i've bought from Hong Kong in the past though.Next up...

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