Steam Early Access build of Punch Planet arriving on Nov. 8, 2017

Players can try out Sector-K Games' indie 2-D fighting game in the comfort of their own home this November.

Punch Planet will be coming to Steam's Early Access platform on Nov. 8, 2017. It will feature both local and online versus modes, with the latter being powered by the GGPO netcode. Early Access users can also take advantage of a training mode with the four characters Cid, Roy, Dog and Tyara.

Sector-K Games' plan with the Early Access build in the long run is to have eight characters and have modes including arcade ready by the end of 2018. As development continues, the price will gradually increase. Players are encouraged to participate in either the game forum on Steam or on Discord to find ways to improve the game.

You can read more on Punch Planet's Early Access page. Videos, including the Early Access announcement trailer featuring new character G-Agent and one unannounced character, can be found after the jump!

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FightCade 2 enters closed beta, supports over 3500 games

The next major version of the popular online service for classic fighting games and more on emulator reached a new point in development: beta access.

FightCade 2 is currently in closed beta for members who registered back in 2014, the same year the original version premiered. Newer accounts will be able to gain access in the future.

This version of FightCade has been designed from scratch to support over 3,500 games. FightCade 2 still allows players to play against each other in popular games found on the original including Super Street Fighter II Turbo, The King of Fighters '98 and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Using a version 0.2.97.42 of the FinalBurn Alpha emulator, FightCade 2 is now capable of providing support for a variety of arcade boards and home platforms such as the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and NEC TurboGrafx 16/PC-Engine.

If you are one of the people that registered all those years ago, you can now download either the Windows, Mac OS or Linux builds and sign in. If you notice any bugs during your experience in FightCade 2, you can provide feedback over at the official Discord channel.

FightCade's Past, Present & Future in USGamer's Feature

Get to know the popular online fighting game program that's keeping older games alive.

FightCade and its creator, Pau Oliva, were featured in a story by USGamer. Oliva was interviewed on how the program came to be.

Topics included how FightCade began as a client that gives Mac OSX and Linux users access to influential predecessor GGPO, how it acted as a backup service when GGPO servers went down and its easy-to-use features.

The full story can be found here. FightCade is free to download now!

FightCade, an Alternative Online Fighting Game Service to GGPO & Supercade

A new program emerges for those who want to play their favorite older fighting games.

Previously called GGPO-NG, FightCade is a middleware that acts similar to GGPO and Supercade where players can play games like Super Street Fighter II Turbo and The King of Fighters '98 with rollbacking netcode.

FightCade was developed in response to both maintenance concerns in GGPO and Supercade according to developer Pau "Pof" Oliva. Pof used many aspects of the GGPO program as the basis for FightCade. He also developed the program to be open source for community contributions.

Along with the games featured GGPO, FightCade also has more in their library list. In addition, the program features a network technique where players don't have to forward ports. Replays are also auto saved in the server end.

You can register and download now, includes Windows, Mac OSX and Linux downloads, on the website!

Supercade Closing Down in October

Damien "Damdai" Dallidenas' peer-to-peer-based fighting game program Supercade will be closing this coming October.

"I've spent a lot of money keeping it running over the years, long after I lost interest in the project, and I don't want to do that anymore," he wrote on Supercade's front page. Damdai also mentioned that he will be trying to have someone take over hosting duties before the closure.

Despite the shutdown, Damdai suggested that Supercade players migrate to alternative online programs such as GGPO or the Chinese-based Super Arcade (formerly ArcLive).

Supercade, similar to GGPO, allows players to compete with one another online in multiple fighting games using an arcade emulator. It supported games made for SNK's Neo Geo MVS as well as Capcom's CPS-2 and CPS-3 platforms. In addition to full online support, Supercade features a replay system in which players can download their played matches from the website.

Make sure to enjoy the last weeks of Supercade by downloading and playing!

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 GGPO Tournament By Rotanibor & JLW On February 13

Who wants to play some Fatal Fury?!

Rotanibor and JLW will be organizing a Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 tournament on GGPO on Feb. 13, 2014. Be at GGPO's Unsupported Games room at 7pm PST/10 pm EST to play. The tournament will be streamed on Rotanibor's Twitch channel!

Make sure to update GGPO and Adobe AIR as well as properly set your router ports beforehand.

For more information on the tournament as well as instructions on how to properly access the Unsupported Games room and play RBFF2 properly, please check out the Dream Cancel thread!

GET IN THE RING!