Our friends over at Neo Empire have been working hard to promote the UK fighting games scene. They host regular tournaments attended by some of the best fighting games players from around the world.

Super VS Battle is the biggest professional Fighting games tournament in the UK and is open to the all players Worldwide. This is the place where the best come to show their stuff and be crowned Super VS Battle Champion.

Almost all the information needed to participate in this event is available on the Super VS Battle website. Most of the games have already been announced for SVB 2008, but there are still more to come.

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Yeah, we’re not entirely sure why, but it seems that everyone and his dog has a profile on Facebook. We just use it to play Scrabble and Jetman, but since they’ll let us have our own little corner to promote our lovely retro t-shirts, we thought we might as well sign up.

You can view our little Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/RetroGTcom/7956673257

If you’d all be so kind as to sign up as ‘fans’, it would make us simply ecstatic with joy.

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The Retro GT blog is now being offered as an RSS feed, so you can easily keep up to date with all the news in retro gaming, as well as the latest developments here at Retro GT.

All you need to do is point your favourite feed reader at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RetroGT.

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SNK Playmore the creators of the Neo-Geo arcade and home systems have announced that it plans to launch a compilation of its Neo-Geo games for Sony’s PS2 and PSP. Scheduled for release in the first half of 2008 it mostly consists of early titles and the first titles of SNK’s more popular game series like King of Fighters and Metal Slug. This is a list of the 16 games in the compilation:

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After several months of hard toil, blood, sweat & tears, Retro GT launched our new website on January 17th 2008.

The new site has loads of new products and features:

• All retro designs are now available on Girl’s t-shirts and Hoodies.
• Our search function is now literally 10 times better.
• Customers can post reviews of our lovely retro t-shirts on the site.
• We have a slick new blog system to keep you informed of all the best retro games related stuff out there.

We’re not resting now though, there’s much more to come including:

• Loads of new designs.
• Kid’s t-shirts.
• Ability to post photographs of yourselves and your mates sporting our wares.
• Retro games forums.

So, check back often because the face of Retro GT is ever changing.

If you don’t fancy the idea of continually sitting in front of your computer clicking the ‘refresh’ button in case we’ve added something new to the site, then just sign up to become a member. That way you can add yourself to our lovely mailing list and be informed just as soon as anything cool happens.

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Frogster Interactive have decided to modernise not one, but two titles from the 16-bit era. The German publisher recently announced that it has signed a deal with The Bitmap Brothers to remake ‘Speedball 2’ and ‘Chaos Engine’. The titles are scheduled for worldwide release in 2007 and judging by the publisher’s back catalogue the target platform is most likely to be the PC.

This isn’t the first time that someone has tried to breathe life into the Speedball brand. The Bitmap Brothers themselves developed Speedball 2100 for the PlayStation back in 2000 and, sadly, Speedball Arena for the PC was cancelled mid-development.

Arguably The Bitmap Brother’s most famous title, ‘Speedball 2′ was a future sports sim resembling American football but with fewer rules and more violence. Chaos Engine was a shoot’em up with co-op play and ambitious gameplay twists. Both games made their mark on the Commodore Amiga before moving onto other platforms, they were typical examples of The Bitmap Brothers’ programming prowess and stunning artistic style. Let’s hope Frogster Interactive can do the titles justice.

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The guys at Neo Empire have thrown down the gauntlet and invite fighting game fans to join the fray at their “Fighter’s Day” event. It is a 10 hour gaming session of tournaments and casual matches with games ranging from Street Fighter to Tekken 5. You will have the chance to win cash prizes and if you’re lucky, some Retro GT t-shirts… so brush up on your skills and head on down. The Venue serves alcohol so losers can drown their sorrows or join in the merriment with other players. Fighter’s Day is held on Sunday 10th September in North London.

Neo Empire represent the UK Fighting games community and regularly hold events and tournaments. For more information on “Fighter’s Day” and other Neo Empire events visit neoempire.com.

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