UPDATE 5 - The success of Lab Zero Games’ Skullgirls fundraiser is beyond explanation at this point. The latest goal of $750,000 was just met, which means Mane6 will be granted free use of the Skullgirls engine and Robo-Fortune will be joining the playable cast with her very own stage and story mode. This brings total donations [...]

This week’s edition of Mike Z’s Salty Cupcakes tournament series once again featured some pretty big news for Skullgirls fans. The biggest one was the announcement that the game will be coming to Linux. This announcement possibly makes Skullgirls the only major fighting game this generation to receive a release on that operating system. As [...]

An incredible amount of new Skullgirls info was revealed at last night’s Salty Cupcakes, the weekly tournament series hosted by Mike Z. Several new Squigly moves have been implemented, including her two-part standing jab, her normal throw (which causes a wall-bounce), and her blocking animations. More information about her tag-in mechanics was also given, showing off [...]

After Lab Zero Games’ announcement of their $150,000 goal for the recently opened (and so far highly successful) Skullgirls fundraiser, Giant Bomb’s Patrick Klepek noticed a distressing emotion running through the comment threads of many articles: disbelief. Though the company was completely transparent regarding how the money would be spent and adequately backed up the figure, [...]

UPDATE – Various parts of this article have been updated with further information from Bartholow, regarding the start date for the fundraising drive (February 25th), the possibility of new music, the dollar amount quoted, and more. These additions have been visibly denoted as such. Mike Z and Peter “Ravidrath” Bartholow of Lab Zero Games revealed [...]

While those crazy enough to do so are lined up to score sale items at retailers across the United States, the folks over at Reverge Labs have seen fit to unveil a new Skullgirls character on Eurogamer. Valentine, the deadly ninja/nurse hybrid, launches her attacks with a variety of medical equipment, including but not limited [...]