Arika's April Fool's project, which came out of absolutely nowhere, is now confirmed a real fighter and is releasing next year. It'll have a simultaneous release in North America, Europe, and Japan (which is amazing) for PlayStation 4.&nbs...

Sending off Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3's final year at the Evolution Championship Series was a Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite exhibition match featuring two new characters. On the Marvel side is Gamora, who we've only seen in trailers, and f...

Speaking today at the EVO Championships, Tomoko Hiroki, who is responsible for producing the upcoming ArcSys game Dragon Ball FighterZ announced that, next week, two more characters would be revealed for the hyped anime fighter.The new char...

Capcom, who cancelled their EVO panel in favour of shotgunning out announcements across the weekend, have revealed more DLC items coming to Street Fighter V.Guile will receive a new costume in the "Champion's Choice" category, selected by l...

This year's Evolution Champion Series is well underway, and I'm sure you've settled on which tournaments you want to keep tabs on. One of the ones I'll be watching closely is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U because it's got much more of a ...

The EVO Championship series is set to begin this weekend in Las Vegas. Kicking off today it'll feature Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, Injustice 2, Melee, Smash Wii U, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, King of Fighters XIV, and ...

I have fond memories of the Samurai Shodown series, but I never got around to playing Samurai Shodown V. Turns out, I'm gonna have to. Since being revealed as SNK's mystery EVO title, more details about the somewhat forgotten entry in the s...

In no uncertain terms, SNK has said that it's back. No longer chained by just being a pachinko licensing lease factory, it's crafted new games, one of which already made an impact in the fighting game arena. But there's plenty of room ...

One of the coolest aspects of EVO last year was that it finally broke onto television. Although plagued by audio issues (as both ESPN commentary and native Twitch stream commentary bled over one another), it was heckin' neat to watch the St...

Many gamers, fight-fans or not, are aware of Daigo Umehara. Typified by his unshakeable mental status, never-say-die attitude, and uncanny predictive skills, the affectionately titled 'Beast' has been a prominent face within the FGC for nea...

The Evolution Championship Series is sort of like fighting game Christmas. Skilled players from around the world gather to virtually punch each other in the face, and it's the hypest thing of the year. Making it even more enticing for those...

First announced during EVO 2016, and later confirmed for a January 2018 date at Tokyo Game Show that September, we finally have a hard confirmation date for the inaugural EVO Japan Championship Coming January 26-28th, 2018, Evolution Champi...

EVO 2017 has filled the vacant spot on its lineup. Fighting game fans voted with their wallets, and the game that brought in the most money for Make-A-Wish International was none other than our dear old friend Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, ...

The EVO Championship is always the hypest weekend for fighting games and this year's iteration of the tournament is going to be no different. Announced on a live stream, this year's lineup has some pretty cool inclusions. Along with the eig...

There was a massive presentation at TGS yesterday regarding fighting games, and Yasuyuki Oda (King of Fighters XIV producer) was in attendance. He dropped a ton of information on us, including news of a balance update, a larger ra...

Top Toon Link Super Smash Bros. Brawl pro Cristian "Hyuga" Medina has been dropped by his sponsor VGBootCamp following word that he allegedly sexually assaulted Smash streamer "VikkiKitty" at EVO 2016 in Las Vegas this weekend. VikkiKitty a...

It's official! Infiltration is the first Street Fighter V EVO (which now has a Japan event) champion. Late last night at EVO 2016, the main event took place, which saw Infiltration rise above over 5,000 entrants to take the top prize a...

Juri Han will join the cast of Street Fighter V at the end of the month, according to Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono, who announced the news Sunday at EVO 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Until then, players can test out the rushdown fi...

At long last, the Evolution Championship Series is expanding to Japan, EVO business development manager Mark Julio announced Sunday alongside Capcom's Yoshinori Ono and Bandai Namco's Katsuhiro Harada at this year's tournament in Las Vegas,...

Dizzy will be added to Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator's roster of playable characters tomorrow, Monday, July 18, Arc System Works and series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari announced at the conclusion of the fighting game's competition at ...

When Tekken 7 makes it to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in early 2017, our dear round friend/enemy Bob ("likes: crime fighting"; "dislikes: weight loss") will be invited to the party. Series director Katsuhiro Harada took EVO 2016 weekend...

[Update: Over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has confirmed the PS4 and Vita versions will feature online multiplayer (with Code Mystics’ proprietary netcode), cross-play functionality, and cross-buy.] Today at SNK's EVO 2016 panel...

It's been a long, long time since an entry in Sega's Shining series has been released outside of Japan, but that's about to change. Studio Saizensen (Umihara Kawase, Code of Princess) has revealed plans to bring its tag-team fighting game B...

Gosh, it's already here. It's EVO 2016 weekend! The celebrated fighting game tournament began earlier today in Las Vegas, and I've been struggling all morning to tear myself away from watching Smash Bros. on the main stream. Let's get righ...

With all the problems surrounding Street Fighter V, you'd expect a lot of the community to shun it. But at EVO 2016, that's clearly not the case. This year, over 4,000 entrants have signed up to play the game -- it surpassed the record way ...