Derek Lairmore

Well the numbers have come out for the next celebration of fighting games, the annual EVO event, and they don't spell a pretty picture, with an absolutely massive dropoff in terms of entrants from last year's EVO Vegas, about 3000 players, there are a number of factors to consider when looking at these stats.

EVO news keeps rolling out and hoo boy is this one a doozy for those interested in the upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads , the sixth installment in the illustrious Virtua Fighter series from Sega. We now have another “new” character to join the previous four in the form of the Bakunawa Killer.

Still no Garen? The latest character for Riot Games' fighting game 2XKO was revealed to be Lux Crownguard, one of the original mages from League of Legends and, probably more importantly, likely going to be one of the main characters of Riot's next animated project post- Arcane

Well the vets of the Guilty Gear series finally have something to be happy about, at EVO 2026 we were treated to the reveal trailer for series classic Robo-Ky for Arc System Works' Guilty Gear: Strive

What's that? A new fighting game character released for a game that came out in 2015? Well, stranger things have happened, in fact at EVO stranger things DID happen, but that doesn't make this reveal any less stunning. A new character, Trinity Glassfile, has been revealed for

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Marvel characters! The 3 final characters for Arc System Works’ Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls were revealed this past weekend at EVO, Ghost Rider’s Samurai Outriders team of Blade, Loki, and Deadpool are now on the scene. While Ghost Rider’s team seems like it has no cohesion or theme

If ever there was a series of video games likely to set the internet ablaze with a civil war of words between two sides of a fanbase that series would be Atlus' highly acclaimed and ever controversial Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. In the latest shots fired in this ever ongoing fanbase war of attrition, we find ourselves looking as the Persona fanbase go back and forth over the presumed changes to the character of Yosuke Hanamura in the upcoming Persona 4 remake, Persona 4: Revival.

In a move that comes as a shock to probably nobody Zaheer, arguably the most iconic villain from The Legend of Korra, has made the cut for the base roster of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game. In a bit of “gameplay matches the lore” integration, Zaheer unlike the other fighters, doesn’t just use his support

Arc System Works has been pumping out guides for every character in the upcoming open beta for MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls that's set to release this weekend from July 24 th to the 26 th , and today we have the privilege to watch the guide for the Queen of Limbo herself, the X-Men's resident sorceress, Magik.

As social media has become fond of saying for the past few years, “Cyclops' PR manager is working overtime!” First he appeared in Tribute Games' Marvel Cosmic Invasion , then in NetEase's Marvel Rivals , then now Scott Summers will be the first DLC character for Arc System Works' M arvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls