May 6^th, 2005 (12:01pm) - SNK Playmore today announced that they will unveil eight new games for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and the GameBoy Advance at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles May 18-20. SNK will be located in South Hall, Booth 646.

Debuting at this year’s E3 are The King of Fighters Neowave Samurai Showdown V, The King of Fighters ’94 Re-bout, KOF: Maximum Impact - ManiaX, Metal Slug 4/5, and King Fighters 2002/2003, each for the Xbox. And for the PS2 you have Metal Slug 4/5 and Metal Slug 1 for the Game Boy Advance.

In addition to the many new games premiering at the show, the SNK booth expects to have swarms of showgoers visiting the booth on Wednesday and Thursday, May 18-19 when noted SNK artist, Falcoon, will be signing limited edition posters of Mai Shiranui from THE KING OF FIGHTERS series. Falcoon, one of the winning artists in last year’s Into the Pixel art competition, held at the show will be autographing a different poster each day. The signing will be from 2-4 PM on Wednesday and 10 AM-12 noon on Thursday while supplies last.

"The SNK booth is usually crammed with our fans at E3," commented Ben Herman, SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION president. "With the added excitement of Falcoon signing his limited edition Mai posters for fans, I expect our booth to experience the largest turnout ever to both play our games and to get each of the posters.