King of Fighters is a fighting series staple now, but that wasn’t always so. The series only first began back in 1994, and the early games set precedents for the series’ future, as well inspiration for other fighting games that would offer 3 on 3 team battles. When The King of Fighters ’95 was released back in 1995 in arcades and on the Neo Geo, it was considered an average but admirable endeavor. Fans will be happy to know that the game has aged rather well, and it’s NeoGeo Station PS3 release does a good job of recreating the experience of playing the game back in the day in your local arcade or on your Neo Geo.

While Street Fighter is awesome and all, some fighting game fans prefer other series. Like, for example, Guilty Gear, Tekken or Soul Calibur. Another beloved franchise is The King of Fighters, which is now appearing for the first time on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as The King of Fighters-i 002, giving iOS device fighting fans another great game to choose from.

The King of Fighters-i 002 is a 2D fighter with 14 playable characters…

The Atlus Faithful email newsletter has been sending out the company’s E3 2011 announcements to fans this morning. Which means instead of sending out standard press releases, everyone was alerted about the company’s two surprise releases, The King of Fighters XIII (PS3, Xbox 360) and Devil Survivor 2 (DS) at the same time. We already went over Devil Survivor 2, so now it’s time to cover Atlus’ Q4 2011 release, KoF XIII…

Some owners of the recently released PS3 version of SNK and Ignition’s fighting game The King of Fighters XII noticed something wasn’t quite right. I’m talking about the online multiplayer matches. There was, and still is for some users, an incredible amount of lag during said matches. The game will pause or slow to a crawl during online play, making it near impossible.

Ignition has already stepped in and up and is working with SNK Playmore on a solution. A 772mb PS3 patch addressing KOF XII‘s online play has already been released to try and help remedy the situation until a permanent solution can be found…