Not to be outdone by its rival Street Fighter series, SNK has announced in this past week’s Japanese gaming mag, Weekly Famitsu, that the beta tests for the latest entry in its own flagship fighter, King of Fighters XII will begin in April 2008.

On the Madman Cafe forums, where the news first broke out on Thursday (March 20, 2008), SNK also gave out the first details about the gameplay.

The character-switching abilities which started in King of Fighters 2003, are…

Square Enix today (July 9, 2007) announced its lineup for the E3 2007 Media & Business Summit.

All of the following games will be on display and most will be playable July 11-13, 2007 at the Barker Hangar at booth #113.:

• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (DS)

• Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Wii – not playable)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (DS – not playable)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The war of the Lions (PSP)
• Final fantasy II (PSP)
• Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess (PS2, Windows, Xbox 360 – not playable)
• Final fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (DS)
• Front Mission (DS)
• Heroes of Mana (DS)

The press release included one new game announcement, Front Mission (the origin of the mech strategy saga), currently in development for North American. Unfortunately, and not too surprisingly, Final Fantasy XIII was not included on the list of playable games.

Click through for summaries of each game provided by Square Enix…