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Lab Zero Games, a studio known for its stylish-looking games, has a bit of a controversy the past few months. See, its owner recently fired the studio's entire staff last week following a series of senior employee departures. Here's a breakdown, in case you missed out on the recent news: Lab Zero Games created hit fighting game Skullgirls a...
Platform(s): PS4, Xbox One Genre: Rock'em sock'em mixed martial arts fighting Reviewing sports games have always been tricky. A publication can choose to assign someone who is neck-deep in their knowledge of the sport, leading to a potentially needlessly nitpicky, emotionally-skewed review. Or go with someone who has little to casual understandin...
Finally, after much speculation, Dragon Ball FighterZ's new characters are announced. It's Master Roshi, of course. The OG Dragon Ball sensei is now a playable character in DBFZ, and he'll be out this September. https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1295072867495759872 There's also a roadmap for the game starting this September, featuring c...
Mr Toffee recaps the recent departure announcement of Capcom fighting game producer Yoshinori Ono after his almost 30 years of service. He also talks about the man's influence on a personal level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yujbeLcgZA Top image credit: 1up.com...
Yoshinori Ono, the man who launched Street Fighter IV with his team and DIMPS, as well as reinvigorated the fighting game scene starting in 2008, is leaving Capcom after 30 years of service. An official post on his Twitter account has confirmed this. He said he will resign his position as Capcom's Street Fighter brand manager by the end of Summer ...
Capcom has announced the characters who will appear in Street Fighter 5 for its fifth and final season of the game. In case you didn't see the headline, it's Dan... ...Rose... ...Oro... ...and Rival School's Akira. The last one's quite a surprise for many of us. There's also a fifth and final character, but the team will be saving that ...
There may be no EVO 2020, but at least we'll have the best fighting game makers in the business converge and talk industry stuff this weekend. Arc System Works, Arika, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Koei Tecmo, and SNK will be hosting the Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable this 1st August at 8am GMT+8. The companies' respective directors and producer...
The upcoming SNK fighting game The King of Fighters XV may be bringing back some fighters from the dead. At least if we're basing this on the endings of KOF XIV. New Blood Team head Yashiro (or Orochi Yashiro), Ash, and Nameless (K9999) will be some of the new characters returning to KOF XV according to a recent playtest session of the game featur...
Bad news, fighting game fans in Southeast Asia. The region's premier fighting game tournament for this year is postponed thanks to the offline esports killer known as COVID-19 coronavirus. The tournament will instead come back in 2021. The tournament is renowned for hosting the regional portion of Capcom Pro Tour (Street Fighter V), the Tekken Wor...
Famitsu held a Granblue Fantasy Versus poll a while back. The results they received this week are pretty wild. When asked which characters they want to see added in Granblue Fantasy Versus (via HDKirin), the most-requested are as follows: #1. Sandalphon #2. Cagliostro #3. Vira 4. Seox 5. Sigfried 6. Siete 7. Silva 8. Vane 9. Beatrix 10. C...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed yet more event plans this week. The latest is the international fighting game tournament EVO 2020. According to an official post from the organizers, EVO 2020 at the Mandalay Bay is cancelled. Tickets will be refunded. However, the EVO team are planning on hosting online events this summer, with more details to f...
Sad news for shooter fans and fighting game aficionados. This year's celebration of id Software gaming and 2D fighter tournament competitions in the US of A are cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While QuakeCon 2020 isn't scheduled until August, Bethesda said that the outbreak means too many "uncertainties". Official statement from Bethesda &...
The Coronavirus events-claiming & postponement continues. Bandai Namco announced online that the Tokyo Tekken Masters event of the Tekken World Tour is being delayed. The tournament will be delayed to a "later date in 2020". https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1234584420893388800 Before all this, the tournament was supposed to be held du...
These days, we've been seeing a diverse addition to fighting game rosters. Granblue Fantasy: Versus features Ladiva, a female wrestler who happens to look like a buff male, speaks in a husky voice with a dainty tone, and rocks a sweet moustache and beard combo. And following this weekend, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition saw the debut of Street F...
The folks at EVO Japan 2020 just revealed its prize payout chart and it clearly showcases which fighting game its organizers, publishers, and sponsors are solely focused on. So to recap, these are the 1st place prizes for the respective games. Street Fighter V: US$9,000. Tekken 7: US$9,000. BlazBlue- Cross Tag Battle: $4,500. Samurai Shodow...
Singaporean professional esports team Impunity Esports, renowned for its top-tier Vainglory & mobile gaming team, will be dipping its toes into the fighting game division for the first time. The group has recruited three high-level Singaporean players into the fold: Ashley "Asher" Seek, Shane "Oreoz" Goh, and Cleon "VGD" Wong. They will be rep...
Like we've said countless times, organizing a large-scale event is a lot of hard work, be it a tournament or a game expo. Having said that, most organizers would have their events and setups down to a science, especially if it's something as renowned as the premier event for your beloved fighting game franchise. And if said game is as divisive as S...
It’s that time of year again. After what has been arguably the most competitive season of the Capcom Pro Tour so far, the top 32 Street Fighter V players in the world will be gathering for the Capcom Cup 2019 finals - the culmination of the international esports fighting game circuit that is the Capcom Pro Tour. Given that you have to be on...
Believe it or not, it's already a year since we were graced by the current king of best-selling fighting game and fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game. No matter how you look it, there's no denying that it's one of the most successful execution of "easy to learn, hard to master" in a fighting game. Happy first anniversary to Super Smash Bros. Ulti...
Bandai Namco just dropped a ton of news regarding its staple fighting game Tekken 7 to the delight of fans and pro players. Let's go through them one-by-one: New Characters In Season 3 In addition to more Leroy Jenkins Smith, we are also getting returning sumo wrestler Ganryu and newcomer Muay Thai user Fahkumram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V...
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