Skullgirls 3rd DLC character vote round 3 concluded - final 4 chosen: Aeon, Annie, Eliza and Minette remain

The third round of voting for the 3rd Skullgirls DLC character has now concluded. The results are now narrowed down to the final 4 and have been posted up on the official Skullgirls Facebook page.

For more information on the voting process and quick breakdowns for each character, you can check out Lab Zero's post here.

Below are the top 4 characters chosen in alphabetical order.

The final round of voting will begin tomorrow night. Which of the remaining 4 characters is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.

Tip sent by HooliganComboFTW, lvk96 and an anonymous submitter.

Lab Zero's PayPal account frozen due to fear of chargebacks - will not delay content as a result

Ravidrath over at Lab Zero Games has been quite active lately on the NeoGAF forums. Throughout multiple posts he shared that PayPal has currently frozen Lab Zero's account with them due to the fear of chargebacks.

It seems as though PayPal is worried that if Lab Zero does not deliver what they promised from their recent Kick Starter campaign, those who donated will demand their money back. Check out one of the posts from Ravidrath below.

Texas Showdown results, battle logs and stream archive - featuring Xian, Justin Wong, ChrisG, Alex Valle

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results for Texas Showdown 2013.

Texas Showdown featured Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as well as many other titles.

Notable players in attendance included: EG|Justin Wong, AGE|NYChrisG, DM|Xian, LU|Alex Valle, AGE|Romance, EMP|Kor and more.

For a ton more information regarding the event, check out our full preview.

Hit the jump for the stream and full coverage of the event.

Skullgirls 3rd DLC character vote round 2 concluded - top 8 chosen

The second round of voting for the 3rd Skullgirls DLC character has now concluded. The results are now narrowed down to the top 8 and have been posted up on the official Skullgirls Facebook page.

For more information on the voting process and quick breakdowns for each character, you can check out Lab Zero's post here.

Below are the top 8 characters chosen in alphabetical order.

According to the Skullgirls Facebook page, round 3 of the voting process will begin tonight.

Tip sent by thomaslight and an anonymous reader.

Skullgirls 3rd DLC character vote round 1 concluded - top 16 chosen

The first round of voting for the 3rd Skullgirls DLC character has now concluded. The top 16 results have been chosen and posted up on the official Skullgirls Facebook page.

For more information on the voting process and quick breakdowns for each character, you can check out Lab Zero's post here.

Below are the top 16 characters chosen in alphabetical order. Hit the jump to check out the rest.

Updated: Skullgirls' new bonus stage River King Casino nearly complete

Updated: The Skullgirls Facebook has posted an updated image of the stage and noted that it is now nearly complete.

To reward everyone's effort in raising money for the Skullgirls Crowdfunding, the Lab Zero team opted to add an all new bonus stage to Skullgirls. This is completely independent and has no correlation with any other stage or story mode goals.

This stage being titled the River King Casino, below is the refined sketch of the initial idea along with a rough color of it give a better sense of what the stage will look like.

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Images via the Skullgirls' Facebook page, sent in by HooliganComboFTW.

Skullgirls' April Fools Day DLC character ZONE-tan

Skullgirls' new animator, ZONE, released an April Fools Day joke yesterday, where a new DLC character would be added to the game. This character was named ZONE-tan and from what was released looked to be in some sort of working order.

ZONE has released some images along with an extremely NSFW preview of her soundpack on his Tumblr.

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Skullgirls mystery DLC character vote has started

The Skullgirls Crowdfunding funded 5 DLC characters and two of those were mystery characters that fans would be able to vote on.

According to the Skullgirls official Facebook, e-mails have gone out to everyone who donated as the first character vote has started.

Haven't decided on who you'll vote for? Check out Lab Zero's character concepts

Prototypes and demonstrations for potential DLC characters in Skullgirls

The SkullgirlsGame YouTube channel uploaded videos showing off quick prototypes of several candidates for the potential 3rd DLC character in Skullgirls. These demonstrations are performed using characters already in the game but you can see that the techniques being done are quite different.

Below each video is a brief description from Lab Zero Games about the character and explains what exactly is going on.

Hit the jump for more.

Updated: Skullgirls's second mystery DLC character getting stage and story mode - Crowdfunding finished with 5 DLC characters funded

Important update: The Skullgirls Facebook updated noting that one of their character development line items had evaporated, which gave them an $40,000. They will be using this money to create a story mode and a new stage for the second mystery character.

Updated: The Crowdfunding just ended with $825,000 raised. Five DLC characters have been funded including Squigly, Big Band, Robo-Fortune and two mystery characters which fans will be able to vote on.

In under 24 hours the Crowdfunding for Skullgirls DLC has reached it's initial goal of $150,000 and is currently up to $196,000. This confirms that Squigly will get a her full DLC including a stage and a story mode. Now the next goal is for $375,000 which will get Big Band, who will be the game's first male character in the game.

Below are images of the characters fans will be able to vote on.

Skullgirls' new stage Glass Canopy, Isaac's time-travel mechanics demonstration

Not long ago the Skullgirls team added some more Patron Saints to their perk system on the Crowdfunding page. Anyone who claims this perk will work with the team to put them or their character in a stage. Fans were wondering where these new NPC's would hang out, so they released an image of the new stage Glass Canopy.

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Additionally, Isaac was announced as the 29th mystery character. Isaac is a time-traveling archaeologist and Mike Z put together a quick demonstration of the time-travel mechanic using Cerebella.

Via Skullgirls official Facebook.

Skullgirls 1.01 Xbox 360 patch file size issues resolved - same problem will not reoccur in Squigly update

The folks over at GameZone recently conducted an interview with Peter Bartholow, the chief executive of Lab Zero games to discuss all things Skullgirls. Bartholow touches on a multitude of subjects such as the Indiegogo Kickstarter, the inclusion of Skullgirls' first male character, the future of the game and more.

Earlier this year, we learned that one of the reasons the 1.01 Slightly Different Edition patch has not made its way to Xbox 360 is due to the update's file size being too large. Bartholow states that these issues have since been resolved and the current hold up for this patch is of bureaucratic nature.

He also mentions that this file size issue will not be happening again with the future update that adds Squigly to the game.

Below is a snip from the article to get you started.

Tip by CarlitoKeyes.

Rough time frame given for DLC characters Squigly and Big Band in Skullgirls

In response to a question about the release of DLC characters, the Skullgirls Twitter gave a rough time frame we can expect both Squigly and Big Band to be released.

Back in January, Autumn Games were in the final stages of signing an agreement with Marvelous AQL to fund the PC version of the game. It was also noted that they expect the project to take around four months to complete.

Lab Zero to give MLP project Skullgirls engine if $725,000 mark is reached, Skullgirls linux port in the making

Lab Zero has recently added a new goal to their Indiegogo campaign. If they can pass the $725,000 mark in the remaining 11 days of their campaign, they will give Mane6 their fighting game engine for free.

Mane6 are the developers behind My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic which was recently cancelled by Hasbro due to copyright infringement. The fighting game engine would be used for the current project that is being developed which is not the cancelled project, but a slightly different game that is being led by one of the creators of My Little Pony.

In other news, Mike Z recently announced that a Linux port for Skullgirls is currently in the making.

The Skullgirls team also said on Twitter that the beta release of the PC version should be out in June, followed by the final release in July.

Via Destructoid, tips sent by Nago, Teohkaka, and Gailim.

Skullgirls - Big Band's early combat concepts including multiple attacks, parry and crouch block

Yesterday, the Skullgirls Crowdfunding was able to raise over $400,000 for DLC for the game, which means we will see the game's first male character Big Band along with a story mode and a stage for him.

Over on the Crowdfunding, Lab Zero has been releasing some early combat concepts including a crouching block state, a parry and two different attacks.

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