Bad news for fans of Skullgirls, as the game will not be coming to the Playstation Vita and Playstation 4 this year as originally planned. Developer Lab Zero Games has announced earlier this week that the game will be delayed into 2015 due to an expanded scope, which will introduce several new features not found in the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC releases. “Unfortunately, these awesome new additions have necessitated a delay until early 2015, but I’m confident that everyone will find the additions worthwhile,” Lab Zero’s Peter Bartholow said via The Playstation Blog.
While we will have to wait for the game to come over to the other consoles, PS3, 360 and PC players will get some Free DLC love in the form of Eliza, a character funded by Lab Zero’s Indiegogo campaign. Eliza fights by manipulating her own blood, constantly shape-shifting into a variety of Egyptian mythological symbols and cultural icons, as well as summon her bodyguards Albus and Horace, and dislodge her skeletal Parasite, Sekhmet, making her one of the more unique and varied characters in the game so far. Lab Zero Games also mentioned that Eliza’s story will be the most comprehensive yet stating over 80 pieces of art and dives deep into Skullgirls’ lore, revealing a lot of the inner workings of the Skullgirls universe.