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2:30 PM on 12.20.2012

SEGA Cup: Virtua Fighter Tournament 2013 dated

Sega has announced the SEGA Cup: Virtua Fighter Tournament 2013, which is set to take place at the Super Arcade in Los Angeles on April 20, 2013. The tournament, held in partnership with Level|Up, will use the PS3 v...

Dale North

5:00 PM on 06.25.2012

Review: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

Before Street Fighter IV completely revamped excitement in the fighting game scene back in 2009, Virtua Fighter was still going strong with the fifth installment hitting a couple years earlier. Even though the arcade, PlaySta...

Brett Zeidler

2:30 PM on 04.13.2012

Catching up with Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

I was worried that we'd have a hard time getting anyone to go see Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown at PAX East (nothing personal!), but then Jonathan Holmes stepped up like a true champ. Little-known fact: all you really nee...

Jordan Devore

12:30 PM on 03.07.2012

Virtua Fighter's Akira Yuki revealed for DOA 5

It seems Team Ninja isn't about to let Street Fighter x Tekken have all of the cross-fighter fun this year. The Dead or Alive series is no stranger to guest characters with DOA 4 featuring a non-canonical...

Liam Fisher

8:00 PM on 08.30.2011

Checking out Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown at PAX

The recent announcement of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network during the summer of 2012 was great news to many fans in the fighting game community. The Virtua Fighter series is regar...

Jesse Cortez

2:20 PM on 01.18.2010

Inbox spam reminds me of Dead Space

Here's what I got in our tips inbox this morning: Subject: PLASMA CUTTER HELLO MY NAME IS DAVID JOE I SEND THIS ENQUIRY TO YOUR COMPANY IN REGARDS TO ORDER SOME( Plasma Cutter)..I WILL LIKE YOU TO EMAIL ME BACK WITH THE P...

Dale North

4:39 PM on 08.12.2008

Shocker: Yu Suzuki still works at Sega; meanwhile, sky continues to be blue

While Yu Suzuki, famed creator of Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, has kept a relatively low profile of late -- he's been working on some arcade racing titles, but that's about it -- he is still an employee of Sega Corporation, sa...

Joseph Leray

8:18 PM on 08.03.2008

Goodsmile Vocaloid accessories now in Virtua Fighter 5 R

[As originally posted on Japanator] If you're a hardcore arcade play -- hardcore enough to go to Japan to play Virtua Fighter 5 R -- then you're sure to love the latest wave of accessories. They've gone ahead and released a s...

8BitBrian

10:48 PM on 11.08.2007

Destructoid Review: Virtua Fighter 5 Online

When Virtua Fighter 5 hit the PlayStation 3 earlier this year, everyone loved it. On a system lacking in quality software, it was hailed as the second coming of Christ (albeit, Christ with a wicked left hook and lightning fas...

Earnest Cavalli

4:08 AM on 10.12.2007

Virtua Fighter 5 (360) goes gold, I hate Miguel [UPDATE]

Team Xbox has news that Sega's Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360 has finally gone gold and will be shipping on October 30, 2007. I could go into detail on why this title is so utterly amazing, especially in this incarnation, ...

Earnest Cavalli

3:45 PM on 08.29.2007

Japan may not see Virtual Fighter 5 360, five Japanese people angry

Virtua Fighter 5 lead designer Tohru Murayama isn't sure whether or not they'll be releasing the 360 version of the game in Japan. Hold on just a minute -- the Xbox 360 was released in the Japan?Speaking to Eurogamer at the L...

Nick Chester

3:24 PM on 08.27.2007

PAX 2007: Virtua Fighter 5 Arcade in US confirmed

Remember when we told you that we heard that Japanese-style Virtua Fighter 5 arcade cabinets were on their way to the United States? We can now confirm that. What? How do we know? We played it! Yours truly took on varied atte...

Dale North

8:29 AM on 08.14.2007

Virtua Fighter 5 to come to U.S. arcades

Just when you thought that arcade gaming was dying, Arcade Heroes catches word that 3D fighter Virtua Fighter 5 will be coming to arcades in the United States, going head-to-head with the upcoming Tekken 6 from Namco.Sega's V...

Dale North

11:20 AM on 07.06.2007

Sega confirms Virtua Fighter 5 will be online for the 360

According to Gamefront in all its direct-link-lacking glory, Sega has confirmed that the Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter 5 will be online-compatible, allowing gamers to play via Xbox Live. This might come as a kick of san...

Jim Sterling

8:23 PM on 05.11.2007

Virtua Fighter 5 on the 360 looking kinda sorta OK

If a recent Games Rader hands-on preview of the Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter 5 is to be believed, the game is looking better than it ever has. Writer Christian Nutt (har har) raved about his time with the game, saying ...

Nick Chester

10:49 AM on 02.20.2007

Winds of change? PS3 game tops Japanese sales list

Hard to believe it has happened this early, but I suppose the Japanese really love Virtua Fighter because the 5th version of the game has made its mark as the first PlayStation 3 title to break the country's top 10 in sal...

Robert Summa