Last Friday we told you about how Autumn Games and Hidden Variable Studios were parting ways with their previous publisher of Skullgirls on mobile LINE Corporation, and thus would be launching a brand new version of the game this Thursday. You see, the LINE Skullgirls game shut down this past Sunday night, and the plan was for Hidden Variable to migrate over everyone's save game data from the old LINE servers to their new self-hosted servers in the time between the old game shutting down and the new game launching. However, it looks like that data migration went a lot faster than they anticipated and so the new self-published Skullgirls [Free] mobile game is now live in the App Store.

As mentioned previously, this new updated Skullgirls brings with it many new features including full screen support for the iPhone X, and it's really pretty indescribable how great the game looks running on it. There have also been a tremendous amount of optimizations and it's incredible just how snappy the game feels now, both in terms of actual fighting but also when moving between the game's different menu screens and modes. Version 2.0 also brings with it a staggering amount of character balancing as well as even more new features, and for a full rundown of what's new you can read the full changelog on the game's official forums. One of the biggest headaches in transitioning players to a completely new, separate app is making sure everyone can bring their game progress from the old versi...