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SNK surprises with online PS2 lineup
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Sep 25, 2004 21:16
SNK surprises with online PS2 lineup PS2 rereleases of classic titles to use MultiMatching Broadband service. SNK Playmore today announced a slate of online titles, all set to release before the spring of next year, that will play over the MultiMatching Broadband Service, a third-party online solution for the PS2 that launched in September 2003. The service was developed through a partnership between broadband provider KDDI and Capcom. The first game to use the service, King of Fighters ' 94 Re-Bout, will release this December. Five other games will follow in 2005. The news came as a surprise because SNK Playmore, only two days before the opening of the show, had announced that the publisher' s " future" game lineup, after the release of Re-Bout, would be programmed specifically for online play. By " future," many industry followers assumed SNK meant new titles, not a slate of classic ports. The announcement that went out today noted SNK' s aims in supporting the MultiMatching service. Rather than the in-depth, time-expensive massively multiplayer role-playing games that dominate the online gaming scene in Japan, SNK hopes to provide an online experience that can entertain even with light, sporadic use. A complete list of the titles that will use the MultiMatching Broadband Service follows; all are ports from the company' s NeoGeo hardware. King of Fighters ' 94 Re-Bout King of Fighters ' 95-' 97 3 in 1 King of Fighters ' 98-' 00 3 in 1 Garou Mark of the Wolves Bakumatsu Roman Gekka no Kenshi 2 in 1 (Last Blade) Twinkle Star Sprites (tentative title) By Chris Kohler -- GameSpot
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