{"id":115829,"date":"2020-07-24T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/samurai_shodown_is_getting_a_free_dlc_fighter_from_tencents_honor_of_kings"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:30:00","slug":"samurai-shodown-is-getting-a-free-dlc-fighter-from-tencents-honor-of-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/samurai-shodown-is-getting-a-free-dlc-fighter-from-tencents-honor-of-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Shodown Is Getting A Free DLC Fighter From Tencent&#8217;s Honor Of Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/08679ce559796\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/08679ce559796\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Who could it be?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/741\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Dazza\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Dazza\">Darren Calvert<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>19 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Honor of Kings\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/08679ce559796\/honor-of-kings.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/08679ce559796\/honor-of-kings.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"528\" alt=\"Honor of Kings\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>SNK&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/samurai_shodown\">Samurai Shodown<\/a><\/strong> has been a worthy addition to the collection of fighters currently on the Nintendo Switch, so it&#8217;s great to see the company supporting the game with ongoing free DLC.<\/p>\n<p>As teased on Twitter recently, SNK will be bringing over one of the characters from Tencent&#8217;s <strong>Honor of Kings<\/strong> to give good old Haohmaru a run for his money.<\/p>\n<p>All we get at the moment is a silhouette as shown in the tweet to indicate which character this might be:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The silhouette for our newest DLC character has been revealed! Plus, they&#8217;ll be completely free to own as a special thanks to our fans out there! We hope you look forward to it! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SNK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAMSHO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAMSHO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HonorofKings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HonorofKings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jlQAFKpBmd\">pic.twitter.com\/jlQAFKpBmd<\/a><\/span>\u2014 SNK GLOBAL (@SNKPofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNKPofficial\/status\/1286496324855029761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Let us know who you think this might be in a comment below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNKPofficial\/status\/1286496324855029761\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNKPofficial\/status\/1286496324855029761\">twitter.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/stories\/365616-samurai-shodown-getting-a-free-dlc-character-from-honor-of-kings\" href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/stories\/365616-samurai-shodown-getting-a-free-dlc-character-from-honor-of-kings\">gonintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/1a816211df449e55c164d0c6c6013600 @ 2020-07-25T08:53:31+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who could it be? by Darren Calvert 19 hours ago SNK&#8217;s Samurai Shodown has been a worthy addition to the collection of fighters currently on the Nintendo Switch, so it&#8217;s great to see the company supporting the game with ongoing free DLC. As teased on Twitter recently, SNK will be bringing over one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}