The gaming industry is in a bad place at the moment with many victims of sexual assault, abuse and harassment bravely coming forward and sharing their stories prompting companies like Ubisoft and Twitch to speak out. The most recent cases include a spate of competitive Super Smash Bros. players and commentators and the co-founder and
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In lieu of abuse allegations leveled against Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar, co-founder and former president of EVO, as well as multiple companies including Capcom and Bandai Namco ending support for the tournament, EVO has fired Cuellar and canceled EVO Online. Throughout the last two days, the fighting game community has exploded with allegations of sexual
In a sea of canceled events, tournaments, and public gatherings, due to coronavirus, one tournament is (so far) standing firm, EVO 2020. The largest fighting game tournament in the world released a statement this week, regarding the fate of this year’s event. In the release, the EVO Team states that they are still planning to
Recently, the president of the massive fighting game tournament, EVO, updated fans on the current registration numbers via Twitter. Evo 2020 Registration Leaderboard – February Edition 1) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2) Tekken 7 3) Street Fighter V: Champion Edition 4) Granblue Fantasy: Versus 5) Soul Calibur 6 6) DragonBall FighterZ 7) Under Night In-Birth
With Street Fighter V: Champion Edition now less than a week away from its Feb. 14 launch, Capcom took a minute to break down all the content that will be available in the latest edition of its prized fighting game. The list, published by Capcom USA’s Dan Louie to the Unity blog on Friday, includes
Last night, the Evo 2020 game lineup was announced bringing eight modern games and one classic to the biggest fighting game tournament of the year. Just as a reminder, here are the nine games that will be on the big stage: Street Fighter V: Championship Edition Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Dragon Ball FighterZ Tekken 7
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid was not very good when it launched. While the core of a solid fighter was definitely there, the game seemed pretty rushed and it was clear that nWay had overpromised what would be present initially. That being said, Battle for the Grid has been improved massively in the year
Fighting game community rejoice! The Evo 2020 game lineup has been revealed, with a few notable surprises that will make for an interesting event. During the recent Evo Twitch stream, Evo co-founder Joey Cuellar and competitive fighting game player Mike Ross revealed the Evo 2020 game lineup, which consists of eight recent fighting games and
William Peter Hjate, also known in the Smash Bros community as Leffen, has decided to quit Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This news came out on Twitter, where he stated that his time with the game has come to an end. Did well enough in Ultimate to feel satisfied for now. I know I could do better
During the 2004 Evolution Championship Series (EVO), two players came together to produce one of the most iconic moments in fighting game history. Against Justin “JWong” Wong, Daigo “The Beast” Umehara pulled off an incredible comeback to advance to the Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Grand Finals. Thanks to EVO’s Mark Julio, we have brand new
Earlier today, the official game lineup for EVO 2019 was unveiled. Surprisingly, it didn’t contain fighting game mainstay Super Smash Bros. Melee; on the other hand, it does include SNK’s Samurai Shodown, which previously only had a vague Q2 2019 release window. While this would place it before EVO, we still didn’t know too much
While Esports continue to be a growing industry within the world of gaming, few competitive events capture the world’s attention as much as the annual Evo that brings together the world’s best fighting game players across multiple events. Ahead of this year’s installment coming in August, the official lineup of games that players can expect