Level|Up Series returns tonight with another installment of The Runback, broadcast as always from Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Much like previous events, some of SoCal’s best will be coming together to compete in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, King of Fighters XIII, and Persona 4 Arena, so be sure to tune in early and [...]

The second edition of the South East Asia Major fighting game tournament, organized by Tough Cookie TV, will be held next month in Singapore. While last year’s guest star, Daigo Umehara of Team Mad Catz, will be unable to attend this year’s event, players from across the Southeastern Asia region and the world will be [...]

The folks over at Level|Up Series have just gone live with this week’s installment of Wednesday Night Fights’ 2013 season, broadcasting from Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Some of SoCal’s top talent will be in attendance to compete in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Street Fighter x Tekken [...]

This week’s installment of Next Level Battle Circuit is now streaming live courtesy of Team Spooky. As always, the event is being broadcast from its namesake, Next Level Arcade, in New York City. Tonight, they’ll be running tournaments for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Street Fighter x [...]

This Saturday and Sunday, John “SweetJohnnyCage” Gallagher and Joe “iloveu” Ciaramelli will be presenting East Coast Throwdown V (ECT5). Last year’s event brought the hype with both great tournaments and exhibitions, and John and Joe will be looking to boost that excitement for 2013. This year’s ECT will again be held at the Hyatt Morristown Hotel [...]

This Sunday, Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th anniversary with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). Its largest event in history, Arc will be commemorating the occasion with live music and programs, original products and their biggest national tournament ever, ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ArcRevo). ArcFes will be held at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in [...]

The reasons for you to enter Injustice at Evo 2013 just got a whole lot greater. WB Games is kicking down $5000 to the top 8 competitors who place in the Injustice tournament at Evo this year. Since the game will have only been out a few months by the time Evo rolls around, anyone can win! Don’t [...]

Last November, Fikra held the first Kuwait Battle Royale, the largest fighting game tournament in the Middle East ever at that time. While KBR will continue to run in the fall of each year, Fikra will be running a “spring edition” of the tournament this week as part of the Road to EVO 2013 International. [...]

Another week, another cupcake filled with salt. Mike Z once again showcased a new build of Skullgirls at last week’s Salty Cupcakes. This version mostly contained universal system changes as well as a few tweaks to Painwheel in order to make Hatred Install more useful. Mike starts talking about the changes at 48:50, and a full [...]

“Long Island” Joe Ciaramelli recently took to Twitter to announce the very first exhibition for East Coast Throwdown V, the upcoming tournament he is organizing with John “SweetJohnnyCage” Gallagher. Fooblat of Team Spooky will be taking on world warrior Kaneblueriver in a first to fifteen Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 set to prove who best [...]

The latest installment of Keits’ Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament series is rapidly approaching. As a part of the Road to EVO 2013, you can expect a ridiculous amount of hype as players vie for those precious seeding points at one of the country’s premier competitive destinations. Like previous events, Keits is doing all he can [...]

This weekend is the final X-MANIA Europe tournament. To send things off with a bang, players from Europe, Japan and the US are gathering at Neo-Arcadia Gamecenter in Toulouse, France for the final Super Street Fighter II X (Turbo) showdown. As with the previous X-MANIA Europe events, there will be Solo, Solo 3on3 (one player [...]

It’s on. The second installment of Final Strike, a tournament series brought to you by the minds at Level|Up and Shoryuken, is going down tonight. The event, streaming live from Super Arcade in Walnut, California, gives players some last minute opportunities at ranking points for Level|Up’s weekly Wednesday Night Fights and The Runback tournaments. SoCal’s finest are [...]

To celebrate the May 8 release of its latest fighter ARCANA HEART 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!, developer EXAMU is hosting an official release comemmoration tournament at Akihabara Hey in Tokyo, Japan. LOVE MAX!!!!! adds on to the original AH3 with new techniques, like the Arcana Eclipse; system changes, including more stringent Homing limitations; character and Arcana [...]

The Fall Classic is the culmination of some of the best tournament minds of the east coast coming together to throw one hell of an event. “Long Island” Joe Ciaramelli and John Gallagher of East Coast Throwdown, Larry “Shinblanka” Dixon of Final Round, and Eric Smalls of Big E Gaming (Northeast Championships, Summer Jam, Winter Brawl) [...]