[Image Courtesy @Sora_Sakurai] Evo is the only esports event I look forward to every year. Where else can I see a guy in a full-body fox costume wipe the floor with opponents in Dragon Ball FighterZ? Sadly, with COVID-19 destroying eve...

Another domino has inevitably fallen. Evo 2020, the biggest fighting game showcase of the year, has been canceled. Originally scheduled to begin on July 31 in Las Vegas, tournament organizers have pulled the plug because of the COVID-19 pan...

The organisers of the Evolution Championship Series (EVO) have released a statement with regards to this year's event, currently scheduled to take place on the weekend of July 31 in Las Vegas, NV.The statement, posted to the official EVO tw...

The EVO Championship Series will return to Las Vegas this summer, and the team has finally announced the nine titles that will take to the main stage for the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, and a highlight of the competitive g...

During this past weekend's EVO Japan festivities, it was announced by Tekken 7 producer Michael Murray that a free update is headed to the 3D fighter this week, that will apply several balance changes to the King of Iron Fist Tournament, al...

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has quashed recent rumours that Street Fighter V is coming to Nintendo Switch in the near-future, following a seemingly erroneous tweet posted by retailer Electronics Boutique this past weekend.EB Canad...

Publisher Arc System Works, alongside developer French Bread, have finally confirmed that the recently announced Under Night In-Birth: Exe:Late[cl-r] will be hitting PS4 and Nintendo Switch when t graces us with its presence sometime next y...

Over the some 30 plus years I've been playing video games, I've done my best to get around to every release that, at some point, was a darling of the community. Whether a classic arcade from '88, some exemplary Amiga title from the early '9...

At Evo this past weekend, Arc System Works announced that a new Guilty Gear was in development. Set for a release in 2020, no platforms were confirmed alongside the teaser trailer. While it was likely that PS4 would be one consoles the game...

The numbers are in, and Smash Ultimate cleaned house this year at EVO. According to a snapshot provided by Rod "Slasher" Breslau, Smash Ultimate was the most-viewed game in the history of the event across multiple channels with a peak ...

Another Evolution Championship Series has come to an end, and it was a doozy. Fantastic players, including new faces and familiar veterans, descended upon the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas for three days of fantastic fighting a...

It was a little bittersweet for Team Capcom at this year's Evo 2019 tournament. While the company can certainly be pleased with a well attended and very exciting Street Fighter V event, their big surprise of revealing three new characters, ...

[Update: SNK has confirmed that Rimururu, the first DLC character for Samurai Shodown, will be available on August 7, 2019.] Samurai Shodown seems to be doing incredibly well for SNK. With the first game having a successful turnout at EVO ...

Shortly after Bandai Namco left the stage at EVO 2019, Arc System Works came up and announced a brand new Guilty Gear game. Only given a short teaser, we don't know much about the title other than it is coming next year. It will presumably...

[Update: I'm sorry to break some hearts here, but it turns out Snake will not be coming to Tekken 7. In a Tweet from the official EVO Twitter account, it was confirmed that the Snake cameo was a joke held by EVO without knowledge from Band...

Just before the top eight of Tekken 7 got underway at today's Evo 2019 tournament, Bandai Namco revealed exciting news regarding new content headed to their steel-clashing fighter Soulcalibur VI.First up, Cassandra Alexandra will be made av...

At the conclusion of the Evo 2019 Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[st] grand finals yesterday, Arc System Works confirmed that there is a new edition of the stylish anime fighter in the works, with a release planned for early 2020.Under Night...

Yesterday was a pretty chaotic, intense day for the Evo 2019 fighting game tournament. Saturday usually is. There's a helluva lot of brackets to complete, games to play, dawdling people to manage, attendees to sign-in and streams to run. Fo...

[Update: As revealed at EVO this week, Janemba will indeed be arriving in Dragon Ball FighterZ as a DLC character on August 8. You can check out a new trailer at the foot of the article.]According to a premature post by Nintendo, the mighty...

Day Two of Evo 2019 is about to get underway, as the world's best fighters traipse into the Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas for another day of wrist-snapping warfare. For your convenience, here is a quick post featuring a link to the schedule ...

It's that time of year again. EVO time - Yes, already. That time when the fighting game community's eyes fall on the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, where the greatest players from around the world have gathered to throw down on the scene'...

A fighting game set in the League of Legends universe seems like a no-brainer for Riot Games. While the company hasn't said that exact scenario is happening, a new fighting game is officially coming. The annual fighting game tournament Evo ...

[Update: As you can see below, Capcom went ahead and confirmed this leak, dropping a trailer for all three characters, as well as individual gameplay trailers, that we have posted at the bottom of this story.] It appears that there is a hol...

The good people of AnimEVO have closed signups for this year's tournament, having pulled in almost 1000 competitors across 31 titles. The annual event runs alongside the pomp and circumstance of the regular EVO fighting game tournament, and...

It's been a few weeks now since Samurai Shodown released with a wicked vengeance. As I've been playing it and following tournament videos, even two weeks out, there's a lot of stuff to be discovered in a new entry to a series that hasn't be...