Capcom has been gearing up for the big finale of their Capcom Pro Tour for 2020 with the finals set to take place next month. While the last official stop on the tour typically takes place at the end of its tour year, this event was pushed into 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The company took to Twitter this morning to announce that the event, which was revised to take place in limited capacity in the Dominican Republic on February 19 - 21, has been cancelled. An online season final will be held in its stead.
Shun'ei's King of Fighters 15 gameplay trailer has been dropped by SNK Official. Though Shun'ei has already been revealed along with K', Leona, Mai, Kyo, and Benimaru, this gives us our first real look at how he'll play.
This particular fighter is said to be a manipulator of illusions. During King of Fighters 15 gameplay, he's shown utilizing Hydrokinesis and Pyrokinesis with his right and left hands respectively.
Street Fighter 5 is an offensive, rush down heavy game; Street Fighter 5 Dhalsim is an offensive, rush down heavy character... especially in the hands of Broski.
While facing off against a Birdie player online, the UK Sim player pulled off yet another one of his more and more frequent jaw-dropping beat downs. While all the fire, teleports, and slick links are great, we were impressed simply by how insanely fast Birdie's life bar goes from two thirds full to totally empty.
After being delayed from it's original scheduled release this morning, SNK has dropped the official King of Fighters 15 trailer for the fighting game world to see. You can view it below after the jump.
Though fans were understandably disappointed to find they wouldn't be getting the trailer they hoped for quite yet, hope was encouraged as still images of the incoming KOF entry started to circulate on social media.
A large portion of the fighting game community were getting pumped up to finally see what The King of Fighters 15 is going to look like after years of waiting, but it appears as though everyone will need to hold that anticipation a while longer still.
SNK announced today that they have postponed the announcements for KOF15 and Samurai Shodown Season 3, which were originally scheduled to take place this evening.
It's time to ring in the new year and with it comes Anji Mito's birthday on January 1 which of course makes this the perfect time to do a little celebrating in the world of Guilty Gear.
Arc System Works certainly agreed considering they've now released the gameplay trailer for Anji as he'll appear in Guilty Gear Strive with all of the abs and fans that you could hope for in these festivities.
Update: Neople's parent company, Nexon, has now released their official press release for the announcement of Dungeon Fighter Duel which reveals some additional details about the upcoming project. You can read the full release added to the original story below.
Arc System Works was already looking quite busy in 2021 where they're set to support Guilty Gear Strive, Dragon Ball FighterZ and Granblue Fantasy: Versus, but it looks like they've added even more to their plate.
During the Dungeon and Fighter Universe Festival in South Korea, Neople announced a new Arc System Works-developed fighting game called Dungeon and Fighter Duel / Dungeon Fighter Duel / DNF Duel.
During the night or early this morning depending on where in the world you happen to be situated, the last installment of the Dragon Ball FighterZ National Championships was being played, more specifically the Japanese portion of the event.
As we'd been promised by Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki, this event also treated us to our first gameplay look at the next upcoming character, Super Baby 2, although we found out about him and some of his abilities earlier this week.
During today's Street Fighter League stream we were told the date and location of this year's Capcom Cup: February 19-21 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. It's at that place and time where the top 20 Street Fighter 5 competitors in the world will meet to battle for the title of Capcom Cup Champion.
This wasn't the only bit of enticing information dropped during the stream, however, as Street Fighter 5 Producer, Shuhei Matsumoto, announced that the first Season 5 DLC character, Dan Hibiki, would also be released in February of 2021.
Super Smash Bros. creator, Masahiro Sakurai, gave us his latest Smash Ultimate showcase today with an in-depth look at Sephiroth, the game's newest DLC character.
We already knew the Final Fantasy 7 villain would be en route some time here in December, but Sakurai clarified today that Sephiroth would be launching December 22. That said, there's actually a way you can start using him as early as today at 3 p.m. PT.
Update: The two-page magazine scans showcasing Super Baby 2 have appeared online thanks to MigueL Games which are now added to the original story below.
The next DLC reveal for Dragon Ball FighterZ was originally supposed to release this weekend during the National Championship finals, but it appears as though word has gotten out early as to their identity and very unique set of skills.
According to the new Weekly Jump magazine in Japan, Dragon Ball GT's Super Baby 2 will be the fourth character of FighterZ Pass 3, and the magazine also included some interesting gameplay details.
Sephiroth from Final Fantasy has just been revealed as the latest DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Sephiroth is the third of six new additions for Fighters Pass Vol. 2, and will become available to download and play this month.
The news broke during this year's Game Awards presentation as the main antagonist of Final Fantasy 7 was revealed. He joins Cloud Strife, Sephiroth's physical opposite, as the second Final Fantasy figure to join the Smash roster.
SNK has broken their silence and revealed new information on King of Fighters 15. A new teaser and sit down with the game's developers unveils the first three playable characters, as well as when we can expect to see the first official reveal.
Kyo, Benimaru, and Shun'ei have all been confirmed as playable in King of Fighters 15 by way of concept art sketches featured in the teaser trailer. Additionally, the first full reveal is slated for a January 7, 2021 release.
After waiting a few months now to see who would close out the second season pass for Soul Calibur 6 following Setsuka, the answer is finally here though not exactly as many were predicting.
During the Soul Calibur Online Challenge EU West finals, Bandai Namco announced Hwang will be coming as the next DLC character with a reveal trailer which showcases a completely different take on the character along with his release date.
Today marks the beginning of the next chapter of Mortal Kombat 11 with the release of the Ultimate expansion and Kombat Pack 2, but many players are just as keen as to what changes have been made to the game in terms of balance changes and other adjustments.
The massive update itself is already live for players to download, and now NetherRealm Studios has released the full patch notes for November's new age of Mortal Kombat including reworks to the whole cast and universal changes.
After over six months of waiting since the last big content drop for Tekken 7, the time is almost here to see the future of the King of Iron Fist tournaments.
Bandai Namco released a brand new trailer for the Season Pass 4 for Tekken 7 which revealed all of the current content coming to the DLC like Kunimistu, online improvements, balance overhaul and more which will officially launch in just a few days on November 10 — though we can play some parts a bit earlier.
After almost two years of requests from fans and a little tease from Megan Thee Stallion, the world can finally see what the latest incarnation of Mileena looks like in action.
NetherRealm Studios has released the official gameplay trailer for Mileena as the third and final character of Mortal Kombat 11's Ultimate update.