This past February we received some fairly earthshaking news when it was announced that a brand new playable character would be arriving for the Skullgirls Mobile (Free) fighting game. Why was this such a big deal" Well Skullgirls Mobile is an adaptation of the console and PC fighter Skullgirls 2nd Encore which was developed by Lab Zero and published by Autumn Games, and for the most part it’s been content complete for more than half a decade. When developer Hidden Variable adapted the game for mobile, they were working within the confines of characters, levels, and mechanics that already existed in the original Skullgirls. And with the game’s hand-drawn animation style it wasn’t trivial to go around adding anything new in terms of moves or characters because anything additional would need to be made from scratch. However, Skullgirls Mobile has been quite the success since its original launch in the spring of 2017, amassing more than 5 million downloads and a passionate playerbase. It initially launched with only part of the roster from the console and PC version, and over the years Hidden Variable has added in the missing characters via frequent updates, culminating in the arrival of Fukua at the end of March which marked the end of existing playable characters from Skullgirls that could be added to the mobile version. Which meant, if there were to be any further new characters in Skullgirls Mobile, there’d be only one way to do it: From scrat...