For the first time this year, Evo will to showcase hot upcoming indie game titles. Today we’re announcing our first title, Spy Party, an asymmetric multiplayer espionage game. Lead designer Chris Hecker describes his motivation for coming to Evo. When I was contacted about bringing my in-development indie game Spy Party to Evo 2012, I [...]

CEO 2012 isn’t the only fighting game event going down this weekend. The enormous digital festival DreamHack Summer 2012 (June 16-19) in Jönköping, Sweden will play host to a number of tournaments for StarCraft II Counter-Strike, DOTA2 and a number of other titles. A part of the event is the Energizer Fighting Championship, June 16-17, [...]

With just a few more tournaments left on the Road to Evo, here are the current Evo seeds for all games.  East Coast players for now are holding onto 4 of the top 5 seeds, but as you can see the standings are close near the top.  This list only includes players who are signed [...]

Capcom has started trickling out information for their upcoming  Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Tournament in the 2nd half of this year.  As many of you know, they’re handing out a cool $500,000 in cash and prizes, including a car.  Thanks to some new information posted on Capcom’s site and FiveAxis.net we now have a general idea of [...]

Darry at IPlayWinner.com has written an interesting piece condemning the increasingly brazen behavior of some stream monsters at fighting game broadcasts.  He distinguishes between regular viewers and those simply out to troll. [The term stream monster] has changed from its original fighting game usage to now take on a broader meaning. People now use stream [...]

As you probably know by now, this year’s Evo is certain to be the biggest one ever! While we have traditionally made Evo free to attend, this year’s registration for the tournament have exceeded our expectations. The worst thing that can happen is for someone to come all the way to Las Vegas and be turned [...]

We’re still two months away from Evo 2012, but already players from over 30 different countries have signed up for the biggest fighting game tournament of the year.  These are record numbers, and we’re on pace for our 10th straight year of growth.  It’s humbling and inspiring to see how gamers from all over the [...]

Evo 2012 is a little over two months away! This year’s trailer showcases what you’ve come to expect from Evo, along with a few wrinkles we’ve added for 2012.  We’ll be releasing more information about each point covered in the trailer soon.  If you plan on attending Evo this year, sign up now!  You have until [...]

Every year we like to do a little something special for the people heading out to Evo in person. To celebrate our 2012 event, we are producing a limited run of baseball jerseys with the Evo name and brand. Each shirt is personalized with your choice of name and number. The deadline for ordering is [...]

  Hot on the heels of their first 2012 seasons, Wednesday Night Fights is already reloading for seasons 2.  This season they are adding a whole new event, “The Runback,” every Thurday night.  So, on Wednesdays you can catch Street Fighter X Tekken and Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012.  Then on Thursdays tune in [...]

If you’re going to Evo 2012 this year, here’s a great opportunity to help out with running the tournament.  As usual we are recruiting around 40 tournament judges, but this year we are also looking and two Assistant Tournament Directors.  This is a great chance to learn the technical details behind running competitive gaming events [...]

In my article yesterday I tried to remind people why we do what we do, and mentioned that some day soon we as a community would have to face up to our dark side.  Well, it turns out that day is today, because of this piece from Kotaku.  Please read their article and watch these excerpts from [...]

  Capcom wanted a reality show, and boy did they get one.  There was plenty of drama in Cross Assault, but the real surprise for me was how quickly the show bled outside of Capcom’s offices and into the general fabric of the Internet.  Streamers like Arturo Sanchez and LI Joe picked up on the [...]

Capcom’s Cross Assault reality show starts in just under a week.  Yesterday I took a good hard look at the contestants from Team Street Fighter.  Today it’s Team Tekken’s turn.  Let’s do this! Bronson What the Audition Video Doesn’t Tell You Let’s get this out of the way:  Bronson is the #1 tournament player in the [...]

Today Iplaywinner announced the Cross Assault contestants who will compete for Team Street Fighter and Team Tekken!  Cross Assault is a web reality show that airs starting February 22nd.  The winner takes home a cool $25,000.  The roster is a pretty interesting mix of familiar and lesser known faces.  In this post I take a closer [...]