Today is the second day of the super convention Nico Nico ChoK aigi 2, held at the Makuhari Messe International Convention Complex. As part of the event, Capcom will be exhibitions for Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver.2012 and Vampire Resurrection (Vampire Savior). Each game will 4on4 round-robin exhibition, with a number of star [...]

This Saturday at Super Arcade in Walnut, California, SEGA and Level|Up will be presenting the SEGA Cup, a Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown tournament. With over $16,000 dollars in cash and prizes, this is set to be one of the biggest prize pots for a Virtua Fighter tournament ever. Players SEGA Cup is bringing together players [...]

The second annual Nico Nico super conference Nico Nico Cho Kaigi 2 is scheduled for April 27-28. Last year’s event was host to Cho Tougeki, a special qualifier for Tougeki 2012, as well as several fighting game exhibitions. This year’s event will again be hosted at the Makuhari Messe International Convention Complex and will feature the [...]

This Saturday at Super Arcade in Walnut, California, SEGA and Level|Up will be presenting the SEGA Cup, a Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown tournament. With over $16,000 dollars in cash and prizes, this is set to be one of the biggest prize pots for a Virtua Fighter tournament ever. Players SEGA Cup is bringing together players [...]

Ryan Hart of Western Wolves and Mad Catz recently conducted an interview for the Low Land Lions website with Razer’s own Itabashi Zangief. While he’s known mostly for his prowess in Virtua Fighter and, more recently, Street Fighter, ItaZan has apparently decided to focus most of his efforts into Soul Calibur V for his upcoming [...]

Haunts over at Capcom-Unity just released a batch of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 footage from the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary grand finals event this past weekend. Below, you’ll find all three finals matches from that game, played by WW.MCZ|Infiltration, MCZ|Daigo Umehara, and RZR|Fuudo. If you weren’t able to watch the live [...]

Mad Catz has uploaded several interviews from last weekend’s Canada Cup 2012. As always, Cross Counter Asia’s Zhi delivers with his unique but entertaining interview style as he chats with the organizers and players behind the event. In the Day 0 interview with Canada Cup organizer Lap Chi Duong, Zhi and Lap Chi briefly show [...]

Canada Cup 2011′s SSFIV AE International 5on5 tournament was one of the most exciting part of last year’s event. The tournament makes its return for this year’s Canada Cup 2012, with the same rules and format as before, including double-elimination, character-lock and the character duplicate ban. Today on TOPANGA TV, Tokido, captain of Team Japan, [...]

Earlier today, Capcom updated the official Street Fighter x Tekken blog with some information on SFxTK’s presence at Capcom’s booth at next week’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2012, as well as pricing information for the upcoming Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament in Japan. TGS 2012 begins with the business days on September 20-21, and concludes [...]

The release of Team NINJA and Tecmo Koei’s Dead or Alive 5 is just two weeks away. In July, the staff of Team NINJA played a team battle set against the staff of DENGEKI ONLINE. The two decided to run it back, with Dengeki Online requesting the help of two Virtua Fighter series veterans: Oyakata [...]

Today in Shinjuku, Tokyo, pro gamer Daigo Umehara of Team Mad Catz is holding a special event at Taito Station Shinjuku Game World as a precursor to this year’s EVO, in honor of a special guest. The event, “Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012 EVO Prefinals,” is a tournament played under “EVO rules,” using [...]

SEGA uploaded a mini-documentary from the Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Pre-Launch Event that took place on May 19th in Los Angeles. The video gives a recap of the event and includes insightful interviews from players such as RZR| Fuudo and Chibita about the Virtua Fighter community. Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown releases on June [...]

Today, at the end of Mago, Tokido and Bon-chan’s weekly Wednesday show Topanga TV, Bon-chan detailed a new show to air on Tuesdays at 9PM JST (8AM EDT, 5AM PDT) starting in early June. The currently untitled show will be hosted by Bon-chan along with top fighting game talent Kazunoko and Fuudo, and while the [...]

If you happened to miss Level|Up Series’ live broadcast from the Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown pre-launch party, they recently uploaded footage of the main event: a first to five match between the two Japanese gods, Fuudo and Chibita. This is nearly half an hour of fantastic, high-level play from two of the game’s foremost [...]

Razer just announced that two more fighting game players will be joining their competitive team as sponsored members. Keita “Fuudo” Ai and Hiromiki “Itabashi Zangief” Kumada, well known for their skills in both Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter, will help expand the company’s fighting game division with their outstanding résumés. They will also be lending [...]