This was a historic weekend for the fighting game community. Evo 2024 Multiple individual tournament bracket attendance records were broken, making this the largest open bracket esports event in history despite the large number of competitors.
With Evo officially over for this year, we’re rounding up all the announcements made over the past three days across the genre that you may have missed.
outside Silly Show PGW|Hayao The Street Fighter 3: Third Strike reveal event showed off even more new features for fans, including some unexpected surprises.
Of course, there was also news from upcoming titles we’ll be covering, including Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, and Guilty Gear Strive.
Unfortunately, no information was given about the release date of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, but the developers of Street Fighter 6 did say: I want to create a new crossover fighting game..
Let’s go through them all in chronological order.
The Bushiroad game finally starts early on Friday Hunter x Hunter: Nen-shocked Meruem revealed Although the new trailer doesn’t reveal all of that.
The game’s opening cinematic also revealed the rest of the starting roster, including Kite, Genthru, Morel and Razor, bringing the total to 16 characters.
However, the release date is still awaited.
Also on Friday, Cygames officially Versusia announced He will appear as the next DLC character for Granblue Versus and was available for attendees to play on the Evo floor.
Of course, that’s not all. Versusia trailer and release date, plus Vikala reveal As the final member of the Season 1 additions.
Finally, Sandalphon was teased with confirmation about content for a possible second season, which could begin in 2025.
SNK seemed to show off more than any other developer this past weekend, and of course that included Garou: City of the Wolves.
Kevin Liang A newly revealed character in the Garou sequel, he’s going to punch you really, really hard – but hopefully not As We’ll try our best to make it just like the original game.
Additionally, SNK also revealed that the new Fatal Fury will also be released on PlayStation 4, in addition to the previously announced PlayStation 5, Xbox, and PC.
We knew that new King of Fighters 15 special DLC characters were being revealed, but they turned out to be classic crowd-pleasers.
Vice and maturity He’s due to return in December, likely as the final fighter to be added to the game.
They didn’t show much other than the new design, so we’ll have to wait a little longer to see the gameplay trailer and find out more.
SNK also announced, perhaps the biggest surprise of the entire event, SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos re-release It was originally released in 2003.
The last official crossover fighter between the two companies added features such as rollback netcode, lobbies, and a new gallery.
SVC Chaos was released quickly for Steam, but is now also available for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
MultiVersus made a surprise announcement just before the event that they would be unveiling something special at Evo, but sadly it wasn’t Scorpion.
Instead, we Samurai Jack and Beetlejuice make their appearance Appears in MVS Season 2.
And Jack is coming soon with a new update.
Unfortunately, it was leaked a little early, but Arc System Works Guilty Gear Strive Season 4’s complete DLC lineup There are some interesting surprises too.
Fan favourites like Dizzy and Venom will finally be making their return, along with new character Yunika from the upcoming anime Guilty Gear, but the most interesting choice was Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
A special open beta for Strive’s new 3v3 mode will also be released later this week.
In the end, Katsuhiro Harada was lying to us all. Heihachi Mishima was completely dead. After the events of the last game.
Although he was absent from the main story of Tekken 8, Heihachi is alive and will return She will appear as the third DLC character after Rydia later this year.
It looks like he’ll also be featured heavily in the upcoming story mode expansion.
Capcom didn’t have much to show at EVO this year compared to 2023, but that doesn’t mean there was nothing.
They are, Terry Bogard’s official teaser trailer In Street Fighter 6, the wild wolves featured in the RE Engine will appear in their classic Garou form.
Fans can see a preview of Terry’s World Tour mode, but will have to wait a little longer for actual gameplay and more details.
Uzuki was originally scheduled for an August release, but French Bread has revealed that Under Night In-Birth II’s first DLC character will be released this week.
Uzuki will be released next week on July 25th! pic.twitter.com/CuFod2zyu7
— Anime FGC News (@AFGCNews) July 20, 2024
Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age revealed Damkina as a new playable character and was shown off at the Evo booth.
Damkina is here! 🍸
Damkina’s magnetic diva moves will have her punching, slapping and stomping anyone who defies her.
But be careful! She has a sinister and dark secret.
Damkina is #DieselLegacy booth #EVO2024 It will be held in Las Vegas from July 19th to 21st! pic.twitter.com/zHL98jsGR9
— Diesel Legacy: Brazen Age (@DieselLegacy) July 18, 2024
Rivals of Aether 2 has announced Orcane as a new fighter, with the developer revealing that all future characters in the game will be free.
Missed the announcements at Evo this weekend? Read our roundup of all the updates here: https://t.co/6TkwODYpVM
— Rivals of Aether // Rivals 2 (@RivalsOfAether) July 22, 2024
It’s been a crazy weekend, so there’s a good chance more info will be revealed at Evo that we missed, so let us know in the comments if you’ve seen anything leaked!
What was your favorite part of Evo this year?
