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Skullgirls Encore is free of charge to PlayStation Plus subscribers starting this week.

Skullgirls on Xbox 360 is in the middle of making the transition to Skullgirls Encore, but a new title update's arrival has left the game in a nearly-unplayable state, since the accompanying compatibility pack is currently running through Microsoft.

The humongous hulk of harmony, Big Band, will bring a male presence to Skullgirls Encore for the first time this Tuesday when arrives in a free update on PS3 and PC.

Lab Zero Games are some merry pranksters, debuting a new Skullgirls Encore character named Fukua, a clear palette-swap of Filia, in what's pretty clearly an April Fools joke. Isn't it?

With its publisher woes behind them, Skullgirls is ready to return to the console arena. Skullgirls Encore will hit PlayStation 3 on Tuesday, February 11, with the Xbox Live Arcade version to release shortly after.

Whether on a physical keyboard or a pocket phone screen, it seems typing is one of 2013's biggest crazes. Why, I'm typing these words right now! Video games are catching onto this retro trend too, as Sega dropped The Typing of the Dead Overkill, and now Skullgirls is joining in. The fighting game's getting a new mode, 'The Typing of the Skullgirls Encore,' which has players typing phrases to pull off Super moves.

Skullgirls is in for a bumpy spell at the end of the year as it switches publishers, being temporarily delisted from the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store before returning as Skullgirls Encore. What exactly this means for its players, and any DLC they own, depends on where in the world they are.

Skullgirls studio Lab Zero hit a snag with cashing in its crowd-funds, as PayPal was reluctant to release the money for fear that dissatisfied customers would ask for a chargeback.

Skullgirls' crowd-funding effort ended at nearly $830,000, reaching the stretch goals for several new characters, voice packs, and new stages.

Shutting down the team behind a game usually spells more than a mite of trouble for a game, but Skullgirls is recovering nicely after Reverge Labs laid off its makers last June. The team reformed as Lab Zero Games, is working on a PC version, and is now receiving huge sums of money from fans crowdfunding DLC characters for the hand-drawn fighting game. You can chip in too, if you fancy.