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...

Melee didn't make the final roster of Evo 2019 games, but that doesn't mean Super Smash Bros. will take a backseat. Actually, it'll nab the tournament's most visible spot. The president of Evo, Joey Cuellar, tweeted today that Super Sm...

Bandai Namco has proudly announced that their flagship fighting title, Tekken 7 has surpassed four million copies sold. The latest title in the long-running 3D fighter first hit arcades in Japan way back in 2015, seeing a revision and a nat...

We are a little under a month away from the annual return of the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, EVO, which will once again see some of the greatest players in the world descend upon the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas to thro...

Last year, Dragon Ball FighterZ was the most-watched EVO stream in the event's history and the number one source of entries for the tournament; now, it's fallen to seventh place as of this May's EVO 2019 official count from EVO preside...

As we edge ever closer to the release of Mortal Kombat 11, now less than a month away, NetherRealm Studios continue to reveal characters for the game's roster, including this all new fighter, who will be joining series veterans such as Kano...

I've been following Evo for a while now and have personally reviewed nearly every game announced for the main stage this year: 2019 is a huge shift for myriad reasons. It's not just the fact that Melee is missing: there's a lot to unpa...

Yesterday, in what was genuinely considered a surprise to the fighting game community, it was announced that SNK's upcoming release Samurai Shodown will see the main stage at the king of fighting game tournaments, EVO 2019.Samurai Shodown, ...