SNK has been quick to support The King of Fighters XIV with post-launch content, and that doesn’t look to change this year. However, it seems there has been some confusion on what that downloadable content will be, with some Chinese sites even reporting that the game would be getting a new character.

That confusion has now been cleared up, thanks to the efforts of Gatoray and MOJO82. Some Chinese news outlets, had mistranslated a quote from KoFXIV producer Yasuyuki Oda during a press conference, claiming that he had confirmed a new character. In reality, Oda had mentioned that KoFXIV would be getting 2 new downloadable costumes later this month.

The costumes in particular are supposed to be for new protagonist Shun’ei, and Samurai Shodown character Nakoruru. The selection of these two characters is interesting, as it means that, unlike with Kyo or Athena, the new costumes won’t be callbacks to earlier games (XIV is Shun’ei’s first appearance, and Nakoruru is in her traditional look from previous games).

These costumes are expected to drop sometime near the end of this month. Whether or not they’re for China only–or if they’ll be out for the rest of the world–is as of yet unknown.

Sources: Gatoray; MOJO8217