One of the big potential announcements that people are waiting on the edge of their seats for on the upcoming Game Awards is the reveal of the next installment in the Arkham series. If it doesn’t get revealed, I’m just going to assume the damn thing never existed and no one can stop me. But it also may not be the only Batman on the show as a rather humorous leak points to the revival of another Batman series.

Earlier the listing for The Telltale Batman Shadows Edition popped up via an Australian ratings board. To remove any doubt, it seems publisher Athlon Game let a press release go just a tad early. While they were lightening quick in taking it down, the internet never forgets. The press release revealed that, as expected, it will be a re-release of the two Telltale Batman seasons. What is a little unexpected is that it will include new DLC as well as new visual updates and new voice actors. The latter is especially odd for a re-release.

There is no details or date for the game as of now, just that it will be launching for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC (both Steam and Epic Games Store). With The Game Awards just a few hours away, it’s not outside the realm of possibility we’ll see the official reveal there.

We now know the entire roster of Samurai Shodown after several weeks of teasing. Now developers SNK and publisher Athlon Games are showing off the cast in new character trailers. First up is the long-running featured character, Nakoruru. She’s been part of the cast since the very first game for the NeoGeo in 1993, and has been in the roster for almost every entry of the Samurai Shodown series.

She’s young, fast, and nimble, and uses the assistance of her pet hawk, Mamahaha. The trailer shows off her speed and ability to deflect, and the end shows that despite her youth, she’s not afraid to get rather bloody. You can see the trailer, which also shows off the series’ new comic book styled visual style, below.

Samurai Shodown is due out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One June 27^th, with a Switch version in Q4 2019 and a PC version at a later date. While you wait, you can check out a 40 minute gameplay preview from PAX East, and take a look at the recently announced NeoGeo Collection.

The avalanche of news for SNK’s upcoming Samurai Shodown continues, with a new trailer that shows off the remaining roster as well as the release date, which is June 27^th 2019. You can see the trailer below.

The game features a 16 character roster, with 13 returning characters and three brand new, original ones being added to the franchise. The first of the three, Darli Dagger, was revealed and detailed earlier at PAX East. The other two are Wu-Ruxiang, a female fighter who serves the Quing empire and relies on divine powers, and Yashamaru Kurama, a male character who uses the mysterious power of the tengu passed down from his ancestors. With them, we now have seen every character in the base roster.

Samurai Shodown with release June 27^th on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A Switch version is expected Q4 2019, with a PC release at a later date. You can also check out details about the recently announced NeoGeo Collection, or take a look at a 40 minute gameplay preview for the upcoming fighter from PAX East while you wait.

The latest issue of the Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu (via Gematsu) has revealed the Japanese voice cast for most of the upcoming Samurai Shodown’s roster of characters.

• Haohmaru (voiced by Daiki Nakamura)
• Nakoruru (voiced by Mai Nakahara)
• Hanzo Hattori (voiced by Tadahisa Saizen)
• Galford (voiced by Wataru Komada)
• Ukyo Tachibana (voiced by Shinjiro Sakurai)
• Jubei Yagyu (voiced by Hiroshi Naka)
• Earthquake (voiced by Kentarou Tone)
• Charlotte (voiced by Afumi Hashi)
• Genjuro Kibagami (voiced by Kong Kuwata)
• Kyoshiro Senryo (voiced by Monster Maezuka)
• Tam Tam (voiced by Ryousuke Morita)
• Yoshitora Tokugawa (voiced by Makoto Furukawa)
• Shiki (voiced by Chitose Morinaga)

The list includes a majority of the roster that’s been revealed. Mentioned above are 13 of the 16 characters so far, but the list, as you will notice, doesn’t include the voice actors for the two as-of-now unannounced characters, as well as the latest character revealed, Darli Dagger.

Samurai Shodown will be released this June on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, followed by a Q4 2019 release for Switch, and then a launch at a later date for PC. You can check out a 40 minute gameplay preview from PAX East, and also look into the recently announced NeoGeo Collection of the franchise.

Darli Dagger will be the first of three brand new characters coming to the newest installment of the long-running Samurai Shodown series in the 16 character roster. She was revealed at PAX East 2019 by developer SNK in a panel that you can watch below.

Darli Dagger joins the cast of feudal fighters as a shipwright raised by pirates. While no gameplay footage was shown for the character, game designer Joshua Weatherford promised that she was unique and was one of the few characters that “has something special when she’s disarmed.” We’ll have to see what that is and how the character plays when SNK shows in-game footage of Dagger in action.

Samurai Shodown is the seventh installment of the fighting games series and the first mainline entry to release since Samurai Shodown VI in 2005. It will release in June for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Switch in Q4 2019 and for PC at a later date.

Samurai Shodown, SNK’s revival of the classic and beloved fighter franchise, earlier had a release window of Summer 2019, and at PAX East, that window got narrowed down even further. With a new trailer for the game, it was confirmed that it would be launching in June for the PS4 and the Xbox One, and that the Switch and PC versions would be following later on in the year.

Plenty of new gameplay footage has also been revealed, which also brings with it new details, courtesy of Gematsu testing over 40 minutes of the game’s PS4 Pro version. Samurai Shodown’s roster has a total of sixteen characters, out of which thirteen will be familiar faces from past instalments, with three being entirely new introductions. While the three new characters are yet to be revealed, the returning characters are- Charlotte, Earthquake, Galford, Genjuro, Hanzo, Haohmaru, Jubei, Kyoshiro, Nakoruru, Shiki, Tam Tam, Ukyo, and Yoshitora.

Samurai Shodown will feature Japanese voice overs, but will also include subtitle options for English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Pan-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. You can check out the trailer and the video containing over 40 minutes of gameplay – which showcases quite a bit of the Story and Battle modes – below.

If you’re a fan of the Lord of the Rings franchise, and want a new game set in Middle-Earth, you may be happy to know that publisher Athlon Games is now developing a new game set in Middle Earth. The publisher announced that they have signed a licensing agreement with Middle-earth Enterprises to make a new game based on the beloved franchise.

The developers are currently working on an MMO game for both the PC and consoles, and they decided to do so, of course, because of fans’ “resurgent” interest in the IP, most likely referring to Monolith’s Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War titles. The upcoming Amazon TV series on The Lord of the Rings, I would presume, also has to be a factor. Of course, it’s likely that anything related to the Lord of the Rings will garner quite a lot of attention regardless.

Regarding the game, Dave Miller, president of Athlon stated, “It’s a singular opportunity to work closely with Middle-earth Enterprises to create a completely new experience for fans of the landmark fantasy work of J.R.R. Tolkien, and we are excited about the resurgence of interest in The Lord of the Rings IP. This, along with several other major properties Athlon is working with, will help us to further our goal of creating AAA cooperative console and PC experiences that gamers will want to play for years to come.”

At this point, we don’t know exactly whether the game will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One, or whether it will be coming for nextgen consoles- or maybe even both! Anyway, this is certainly exciting news, and we’ll hopefully get to hear more soon enough.