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The biggest fighting game tournament is making an offline comeback in 2022 from 6th to 7th August GMT+8. The games that will be in this year's EVO tournament are as follows: Street Fighter 5 Guilty Gear Strive Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Tekken 7 The King of Fighters XV Melty Blood: Type Lumina Dragon Ball FighterZ Granblue Fantasy Versus...
Sometimes it only takes all kinds to get fired, even with a joke that isn't meant to be of ill-intent. Such is the case of female Tekken 7 pro player Tanukana, who was recently fired from her pro-gaming group Cyclops Athlete Gaming. According to a Kotaku report, she was fired for her comment about short men during a livestream. While doing a ...
Malaysian fighting game group Infinite Carnage is making a splash in the offline fighting game scene this month. First up is the KUL Fighting Games Championship 2022, organized by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL). Here are the details: Venue: Panggung Anniverseri, Taman Botani, Kuala Lumpur Date: Saturday, 19 February 2022 Time: 10.00am - ...
For its 13th year running, the International Esports Federation (IESF) is set to kick off its flagship competition; the 13th IESF Esports World Championship 2021. Scheduled to take place between 14th November 2021 to 20th November 2021, the competition this year will see a record number of Esports contingents from across the world compete for glory...
Miss the fighting game offline scene? Well, Flash Vision has the next best thing: a major online fighting game tournament. The fighting game group will be hosting the upcoming FV Major X Level Up KL 2021 fighting game tournament from 20th to 28th November; a nice long week of 2D tournament fighting among Malaysia's best. The tournament registrat...
If you're hoping to see a livestream of a major fighting game tournament series play out with players in the same space, do we have some bad news for you. The EVO 2021 Showcase in Las Vegas, dubbed as a triumphant return to form after 2020, has been cancelled. The organizers of EVO have announced this on Twitter recently. "Due to the continuing...
Update (15/8/2021) - Added in results & videos for the second week. Update (9/8/2021) - Added in results & videos for the first week. It's high time the world witnesses the best in fighting game skill, so it's good that the Evolution Championship Series has sorted its kerfuffles out last year and are back in full force for 2021. Th...
Nintendo just published a new Nintendo Direct focused on the latest addition to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Tekken's Kazuya Mishima. Most importantly, he'll be available sooner than you think. Game director Masahiro Sakurai talks about the philosophies in bringing a 3D fighter like Kazuya into the 2D SSBU mix. He picked Kazuya not because of his...
The PC version of Guilty Gear Strive is looking pretty healthy. According to SteamDB.info, the game has hit an all-time peak at 31,156 as of 12th June within 24 hours. The Steam version came out on 11th June. For comparison, Mortal Kombat 11 reached an all-time player peak of 35,147 about 2 years ago. Street Fighter V's all-time peak was ...
Bandai Namco and NetherRealm Studios, the makers of Tekken 7 and Mortal Kombat 11 respectively, have publicly announced to not feature their games on future WePlay tournaments and esports events. Previously, both companies have hosted a lot of money in Tekken 7, SoulCalibur VI, and Mortal Kombat 11 tournaments the past month or so. https://twitt...
So far, it's looking pretty safe to host offline events, which is what tournament organizers & fighting game group Flash Vision are doing. To celebrate the upcoming Ramadan festivities, Flash Vision will be hosting a Malaysia FV Cup 2021 Ramadan Edition for the Malaysian fighting game community. Here are the details: Date: 1st May Venue:...
After much teasing, we now get to see Poland Prime Minister Lidia Sobieska's gameplay and fighting style in Tekken 7. If you like karate and a lot of fast strikes, you'll want to watch this. The Bandai Namco trailer showcases Lidia taking down Tekken characters like Bryan, Paul, Heihachi, and Jin Kazama. Her moves are really fast and come with t...
Tekken 7 fans got a tease back in February from Bandai Namco and producer Katsuhiro Harada concerning the next DLC character. So far, we know that she's the Polish Prime Minister and she's a fancy dresser. Thanks to a physical care package received by various fighting game folks like commentator Rip, we now know her name: Lidia Sobieska. She fig...
In case you weren't aware, this whole of February was Black History Month. With this iconic time coming to a close, let us celebrate and talk about our favourite and iconic black characters in video game history. Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII Remake) While the FFVII original version of Barret was fine, the 2020 version is a huge improveme...
Bandai Namco unveiled a new Tekken 7 teaser trailer at the 2nd Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable stream hosted by the company yesterday. It revealed that the next addition to the Tekken 7 roster sometime in early Spring 2021 will be a female character who is also the current prime minister of Poland in the Tekken universe. The br...
2020 is coming to an end, but we need at least one major piece of news to cap off the year apart from the eventual winner of this year's Capcom Cup. So here's one: the winners of the Yoodo FV Major Cup tournament and the Flash Vision representatives of next year's EVO fighting game tournament in Las Vegas, USA. On the Street Fighter 5 side of th...
Malaysia fighting game group Flash Vision will be hosting its FV Cup 2020 later this November, bringing a whole slew of fighting game folks and players together from all over Malaysia, be it the Klang Valley or the east sides of Sarawak and Sabah. This time, they come under the Level Up KL banner, meaning they have full support from the Malaysia Di...
During Tokyo Game Show 2020, Bandai Namco has revealed the first brand new fighter for the upcoming Tekken 7 Season 4 DLC. Wearing a Japanese Kitsune (fox) mask, her name is Kunimitsu. Her fighting style seems to be ninjutsu-based or like a ninja's, and she wields Kunai as her choice of weapon. In the teaser trailer, we see her defeat both Mas...
Anime fans who are bummed out by COVID-19 putting a kibosh on offline event plans can be assured that Animangaki is still on for 2020. Online, that is, for 21st to 23rd August. If you're a fighting game fan, then there's extra good news as organizers Infinite Carnage are teaming up with the anime expo to host a slew of online fighting game tournam...
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...
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