Arc System Works has revealed the second DLC pack for upcoming team-brawler BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Character Pack Two will feature three roster additions from the franchises that make up the crossover fighter's universe.Samurai cat Jub...

August 3 will see the Evolution Fighting Tournament 2018 return to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Once again, the best fighting game players in the world will gather to battle it out on all of the top digital slapfests of the day.EVO organiser ...

After being rejected for EVO 2018, you'd think Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite would avoid more headlines about exclusions from tournaments. Turns out that isn't the case. As reported by Kotaku, MvC: I won't be present at the Capcom Pro Tour, o...

We learned this week that Namco Bandai's Dragon Ball FighterZ has made the cut for the EVO 2018 tournament, which takes place in Las Vegas this Summer. Lots of new contenders are expected to show up for the game's first major, and it seems ...

Speaking during the EVO 2018 broadcast, tournament organisers Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar and Mark "MarkMan" Julio briefly touched upon the reasons that Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, a game which has been out for less than six months,...

The EVO championship is the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, and it's also the best time to watch any of your favorite games in the hands of professional players. It's also been broadcast on ESPN the past two years, and seems t...

At the recent EVO Japan event, Arc System Works had a playable build of their upcoming fight-fest BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, with reports coming in that the game features a simplified control scheme option, tweaked from its namesake title....

SNK is reviving The King of Fighter 97 with online support. Dubbed Global Match, the only details we know are that the game is coming in the Spring and will be available on PS4, PS Vita and PC. I suppose we also know it has online, but that...

We reported last week on how card-thrower Oswald would be making his return to the ring in King of Fighters XIV. Well, it appears he's not alone, as SNK confirmed at EVO Japan that, in April, three more DLC characters will also be joining t...

This week sees the first ever EVO Japan fighting game tournament take place in Tokyo. Not that it has seen much pomp and circumstance, with little marketing, reports or Western media coverage leading up to the event. That hasn't stopped the...

It's the end of an era, as fighting game website Shoryuken.com, more commonly known as "SRK", are to close their forums at the end of the month. This brings to an end years of intense, informative, comedic and controversial fighting game ch...

Hot off the heels of the release of Version 5.0, Nintendo has announced some very unfortunate news in regards to ARMS. While balance updates will still happen, there will be no more content for the game. It's unclear how long the balance pa...

SNK have announced that visitors to the EVO Japan tournament, being held late next month, will be able to to get their hands on a new character, coming to King of Fighters XIV next year.No information was given as to the challenger's identi...

Alongside last weekend's Capcom Cup, which saw the best on the world throw down on Street Fighter V, there was also a tournament held on Capcom's crossover title, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite.The "Battle for the Stones" tourney had a great tro...

Next year will see world fighting game tournament EVO return once again to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, situated in Las Vegas, Nevada. The greatest fighting game players in the world will descend on the venue to face off on the big...

The first Japan EVO tournament, noteworthy for also not featuring Melee as a main stage title, will be free to enter. As long as you can make it to Japan in January you won't need to pay the ~$50-$70 required for other EVO tournaments,...

Coaching in eSports has been a long debated concept. While players can basically keep any company they want before or after a match, during a matchup is another thing entirely. It's commonplace in sports to confer with any number ...

Street Fighter V revealed a newer version of Final Fight boss Abigail with mixed results. The response may have skewed more toward negative, but after watching some footage of him I'm kind of won over by how big, dumb, and goofy this guy is...

Below is an interesting image comparing the character usage within EVO 2016's Street Fighter V finals against the finals of EVO 2017, which took place last weekend.It shows a distinct turnaround in character choice, almost assuredly the bac...

EVO 2017's download is complete, and peak numbers have been recorded for all of the main stage finals streams. How did they do? Well let's take a look. Note that all this data is just from Twitch. Street Fighter V is on top (no su...

This past weekend was the Evolution Championship Series tournament where fighting game players from all over the world showed how cool fighting games can be at a high level. But, in that same breath, it also showed off how skimpy some of th...

EVO Japan's lineup was revealed this week, and it has a lot of the usual suspects. Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd, King of Fighters XIV, BlazeBlue: Central Fiction, Street Fighter V, Smash Wii U, and Arms all made it in. Wait, no Melee? Yep...

Another Evolution Fighting Championship has come to an end. Thousands of fight-fans descended on Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this weekend to test their mettle against the world's top players in major and minor tournaments. When the dust settl...

There was a leak a while back purporting that Street Fighter V's Season 2 DLC would consist of brand new characters, and one of those characters was Abigail, one of the bosses from the Final Fight series.  While I wish we would've got...

Although confirmed to join the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster a few weeks back, we haven't seen Future Trunks in action until now. How does he look? Like a friggin' beast. Remember when Future Trunks first debuted in the anime, chopped Frieza...