Though a mysterious being called Verse destroyed the KOF arena, its threat was quelled thanks to the brave efforts of the winning challengers. Only the world's toughest fighters can duke it out in the largest martial arts tournament in the world. 5.4.3.3 Confirmed only in Individual Characters.5.4.3.2 Confirmed in Promotional and Individual Trailers.5.4.3.1 Confirmed only in the Teaser Trailer & Official First Trailer (Until Now).4.2.9 Galaxy Anton Wrestling Team (A.K.A.4.2.4 Orochi Team (Former New Faces Team).4 Confirmed Teams & Characters (Until Now).Starting with the 11th trailer (Yashiro's Reveal Trailer), the company reveals silhouettes of the next characters to be confirmed.

The promotion of the game is through trailers that were, initially weekly, but with the postponement of the game, they became biweekly. Yasuyuki Oda ( Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The King of Fighters XIV) is the producer, Eisuke Ogura is the creative director and Tomohiro Nakata ( The King of Fighters All Star) is the main illustrator. This game is the second chapter of the fourth canonical saga for the series, and is the second SNK game to use the Unreal Engine graphic motor (Unreal Engine 4), the first being Samurai Shodown (2019).

The game is the first of the series to have rollback netcode. It is currently not known if the game will have crossplay or not. The game will be released for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows 10, Steam and Epic Games. In June, SNK announced that the game had been postponed once again and will be released in the first quarter of 2022, due to the rising cases of COVID-19 and the state of emergency in Japan. However, the date was postponed to 2021, due to COVID-19 pandemic. It was officially announced at EVO 2019 and was originally slated for release in 2020. The King of Fighters XV, officially abbreviated as KOF XV is a upcoming fifteenth installment of The King of Fighters series. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S & Microsoft Windows

Main key visual, showing Shun'ei, the Sacred Treasures Team, K', Ash, Heidern and the two female newcomers.

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