One of the most exciting trends as the fighting game scene matures is the growing number of players who choose to develop their own games. EXPO FIGHTER is a free to play web browser fighting game pitting video game industry inspired characters against one another. EXPO FIGHTER is planned for launch June 1st 2013. We [...]

This straight up is not fighting game related, but it’s something that’s close to my heart, so I hope you’ll bear with me. Over the years, Ponder and I have collaborated on a lot of fighting game projects, including this site, Evo, and GGPO. All of these have been incredibly rewarding experiences for both of [...]

The EVO Scholarship will allow a member of the fighting game community to attend the prestigious NYU Game Center MFA program. The NYU Game Center, a new department within the Tisch School of the Arts, is focused on game design as a creative practice. One of the most vibrant and innovative aspects of contemporary game [...]

This week Gamespot’s new competitive gaming news roundup show has a nice overview of Final Round 16.  Gootecks summarizes the results, talks to Ryan Hart about SF4AE, and discusses the AGE stream flareup. The show also discusses Starcraft, League of Legends, and Call of Duty if that’s your thing.  The Final Round coverage starts 13 [...]

NYU Game Center has announced it’s third annual Spring Fighter event for April 13th.  The event will feature tournaments, but also a conversation between Seth Killian and Daigo.  If you have a preferred topic for discussion or a question that you’d like Seth to ask Daigo, post it in the comments. Here’s a little more information [...]

To improve SRK’s overall speed and reliability, we’re moving the forums off our own own servers and onto Vanilla Forums.  The migration will take a few days, so the forums will be going down tonight at 9:00 PM PST.  We expect to bring them back up by Monday, Feb 11th.  

Though they didn’t win, we were truly impressed by Skullgirls’ showing in our recent donation drive.  The Skullgirls scene organized two of their own fundraisers and raised over $78,000.  So as a big “thanks!” Evo will support the Skullgirls side tournament at Evo in the following ways. Evo will provide dedicated setups to the Skullgirls [...]

I’m happy to announce that we are expanding the U.S. tournaments awarding EVO 2013 seeds to five, with the addition of Winter Brawl 7!  Winter Brawl, which takes place February 23 – 24 in Philadelphia, PA, will now give players from the north-east region of the U.S. their own shot at earning a seed in [...]

The totals are in, and wow… what an incredible ride! Hard work, community bonding, community competition, surprises, gamesmanship, and even a last minute dose drama–who could have guessed Evo’s 8th game charity donation drive would have had so many things in common with Evo itself? As many of you have been tracking the totals carefully [...]

Gene Angel at ESFI World suggests that Street Fighter IV move to the team format as a tournament standard. It’s a bold suggestion.  If this topic interests you it’s worth a read. The time for this change is now. These are tangible benefits that SF4 could gain today, and I know I’m not the only one [...]

Mr. Wizard has revealed the first set of announcements for this year’s Evo tournament, held July 12-14 at the Paris Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. Without further ado: Evo 2013 Lineup Thanks to the tremendous turn out in 2012, we’ve decided to expand our tournament lineup to eight games! Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Super [...]

Ultradavid’s great fantasy bracket idea finally pushed me and Ponder over the edge to implement a system we’ve been thinking about for a while: a fantasy league for fighting game tournaments. So, just in time for Capcom’s tournaments this weekend, I’d like to introduce the the SRK Fantasy League (beta). Here’s how it works Head [...]

NowGamer has a really insightful interview up with Seth Killian covering a wide range of fighting game topics.  Seth first explains how he became involved with Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale and how the team’s hard-core fighting chops have influenced the design of the game. I like [Drake's] play style. I like picking up the barrel [...]

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale has officially released for PS3 and PS Vita!  I know a lot of you have been grinding away at the beta for some time now, but here’s a quick survival guide for those of you who what to join in on the party. Tip #1:  Buy the PS3 version to get [...]

It took longer than we expected, but we have finally awarded the first ever Evo College Scholarship! The response was enormous; in our first year we received over 500 applications.  Thankfully, the number of PPV viewers for Evo 2012 have allowed us to add one additional scholarship.  So for 2012 we will grant two $10,000 [...]