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A poster on Gametrailers of all places has uploaded some scans and information from the newest issue of GAMEPRO. Thanks to Ultima on SRK for digging this up.

A couple details I thought were interesting:

-Home Console will receive Several Extra characters.

Not sure if this is in addition to what we have already seen or just compared to the current arcade roster. There are scans of the roster included in the game and Rose is nowhere to be seen so maybe they are still working on the final cast for the game.

-Ono hints were going to engineer the home version of the game so you can actually play in arcade mode and you can turn on a function that would allow matchmaking in the background, so you could just have someone jumps in the game exactly as they would at the Arcade. The function can be configure to ranked or player matches or quick warm-up rounds.

I think this is a pretty cool feature even though I rarely play arcade mode with fighting games. It would be nice if you could enable this while you are in training mode so you can hop into a match while practicing combos during the downtime.