Summer Jam XI Results
Summer Jam is one of three events held annually by organizer Big E Gaming, and this year's was a particularly big one. As a major stop in the Capcom Pro Tour, Tekken World Tour, Injustice Pro 2…
August 16, 2017 | 12:20 EDT
VSFighting 2017 Results
VSFighting 2017 in Birmingham, England concluded this past weekend, and as a major stop on the Capcom Pro Tour, Tekken World Tour, and Injustice 2 Pro Series, it was a very important event for many…
August 15, 2017 | 09:20 EDT
Furia Tica 2017 Results
Furia Tica 2017 in San Jose, Costa Rica, has concluded. It was headlined by Street Fighter V due to being a Latin America ranking event of the Capcom Pro Tour, but tournaments for Tekken 7, The King…
August 15, 2017 | 08:52 EDT
Fight Club NRW 8 Results
Fight Club NRW 8, an event taking place in Cologne, Germany and a major stop on the Capcom Pro Tour, has concluded. As a European ranking event, the Street Fighter V tournament will also allow Asian…
August 8, 2017 | 09:01 EDT
Viennality 2017 Results
Viennality 2017, which took place in Vienna, Austria, concluded this past weekend and was a major stop in the Injustice 2 Pro Series, featuring a whopping $20,000 pot. This sizeable prize drew in a…
August 8, 2017 | 08:08 EDT
Capcom Pro Tour North America Online 3 (2017) Results
In addition to normal, in-person events, online tournaments are held as regional events for the Capcom Pro Tour. This is a great way to allow for people who can't travel often to participate and have…
August 8, 2017 | 07:53 EDT
Tekken World Tour Korea 2017 Results
Tekken World Tour Korea in Seoul has concluded, and what an event it was. If you're familiar with competitive Tekken, you'll know that Korean players are the cream of the crop and always rise to the…
August 8, 2017 | 07:37 EDT
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Internal eSports Proposal Leaked
This Tuesday morning, a video regarding Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite's eSports planning and logistics was made public instead of private on YouTube, which opened a short window for those outside of…
August 8, 2017 | 07:15 EDT
ROX Gaming Signs Tekken Legend Jaemin "Knee" Bae as Their First Pro Fighting Game Player
The South Korean esports organization, ROX Gaming, known mostly for their League of Legends team, the ROX Tigers, has announced a new addition to their roster: legendary pro Tekken player, Jaemin Bae…
August 7, 2017 | 04:47 EDT
FGC Match Spotlight: Evil Geniuses' Momochi vs. AverMedia's GamerBee at Evo 2015
Sometimes, hard work doesn't pay off. Sometimes, everything can go according to plan, but you still manage to lose. Some players put their heart and soul into a career-defining match, placing their…
August 5, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Defend the North 2017 Results
Defend the North 2017, which took place in White Plains, New York from July 29-30, one of the many respectably large fighting game events scattered around the northeastern region of the United States…
August 1, 2017 | 10:26 EDT
All By Myself: The Importance of Single-Player Content in Fighting Games
Fighting games are fundamentally competitive. Two people select a character and then proceed to beat each other to the best of their abilities until one of them wins, preferably in a quick and…
August 1, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Abuget Cup 2017 Results
Abuget Cup 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia has concluded. The event is a major stop for both the Capcom Pro Tour and Tekken World Tour, meaning that notable Asian pros for both games participated in hopes…
July 31, 2017 | 06:59 EDT
DreamHack Atlanta 2017 Results
This past weekend, DreamHack Atlanta 2017 took place and probably fell under some peoples' radar due to not being part of the Capcom Pro Tour or Injustice Pro Series, and many spectators still having…
July 24, 2017 | 05:58 EDT
Capcom Pro Tour 2017: Post-Evo Leaderboard Analysis
At the beginning of this year, Capcom announced some key changes to their point system for 2017's Pro Tour. There were no longer any automatic qualification spots except for two: the previous year's…
July 21, 2017 | 04:54 EDT
FGC Match Spotlight: Huomao's E.T. vs. Qanba's Xiaohai at Evo 2017
The King of Fighters is the soccer of fighting games. It has a reach that touches every part of the globe. Most fighting games have two or three key countries that make up the vast majority of its…
July 19, 2017 | 05:59 EDT
Evo 2017 Results and Announcements
This past weekend, the Evolution Championship Series returned for its 15th year and has once again provided hours upon hours of entertainment from surprising upsets in pools to intense, fist-…
July 17, 2017 | 11:54 EDT
FGC Match Spotlight: Knee vs. Echo Fox's JDCR at Rev Major 2017
If you follow professional Tekken, you know the Koreans are the kings of the court, the rulers of the land, the cool kids on the block, the cream of the crop, etcetera. Watching top Korean players…
July 12, 2017 | 06:07 EDT
Evo 2017: Notable Players (Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Injustice 2)
The Evolution Championship Series of 2017 is four days away, and the brackets have been locked in place. Just as every year, the world's largest competitive fighting game event draws in every…
July 11, 2017 | 07:58 EDT
Evo 2017: Notable Players (Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3)
The Evolution Championship Series of 2017 is less than a week away, and the brackets have been locked in place. Just as every year, the world’s largest competitive fighting game event draws in every…
July 10, 2017 | 08:30 EDT
Evo 2017: Notable Players (Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV)
The Evolution Championship Series of 2017 is less than a week away, and the brackets have been locked in place. Just as every year, the world's largest competitive fighting game event draws in every…
July 8, 2017 | 09:05 EDT
Street Fighter V Stage Banned in Capcom-Run Tournament
The Capcom Cup, a global Street Fighter V tournament, is starting next week on the 2nd of December. 32 Street Fighter players will come together for a chance at taking home some of the $350,000 pot…
November 24, 2016 | 05:44 EST
FGC Roundup - August 5th, 2016
The FGC Roundup is back with all the week's biggest fighting game community news and a look ahead to the coming weekend's most significant events. Hype! Salt! We've got it all on this week's edition…
August 5, 2016 | 07:39 EDT
FGC Recap - Sonic Boom, Defend The North, CPT Online Event
The FGC Recap is back this week for a look back at the weekend that was in the tournament scene. Players vied for supremacy and Capcom Pro Tour points in Madrid, engaged in fisticuffs in New York and…
August 5, 2016 | 12:46 EDT
EVO 2016 - Day 3 Recap
EVO Championship Sunday is a truly unique experience that has this magical air to it. It personifies all the best parts of the FGC and truly unites the segmented fandoms into a cohesive whole. EVO…
July 22, 2016 | 09:58 EDT
EVO 2016 - Day 2 Recap
Day 2 of EVO 2016 has nearly left me staggered from the sheer multitudes of hype present within the Las Vegas Convention Center. Tekken 7: Fated Retribution crowned it's champion as did Killer…
July 17, 2016 | 10:38 EDT
FGC Recap - Dreamhack Summer 2016, LTC4, Wizard World
The FGC Recap is back this week to take a glance back at the weekend that was in the fighting game community. Father's Day weekend was a big one as it featured the EU's second Premier event (…
June 23, 2016 | 12:26 EDT
FGC Roundup - June 18th, 2016
The FGC Roundup returns after a brief hiatus due to, well, things unrelated to fighting games and its community keeping this correspondent busy temporarily. Sorry about that folks! Let's get down to…
June 17, 2016 | 02:44 EDT
FGC Roundup - June 4, 2016
The FGC Roundup returns with a look ahead to your viewing weekend as far as fighting games go and all the biggest stories that matter from the week that was in the fighting game community. Let's…
June 4, 2016 | 01:40 EDT
FGC Recap - Combo Breaker, FFM Rumble, Japonawa
The FGC Recap returns with a look back at the weekend that was in the fighting game community. A lot of tournament action took place on Memorial Day weekend including one of the best events of the…
June 2, 2016 | 11:03 EDT
FGC Roundup - May 28th, 2016
The FGC Roundup returns to take a look ahead to the packed tournament action this weekend and the biggest stories within the fighting game community of the past week. The first stop is Frankfurt,…
May 28, 2016 | 06:07 EDT
FGC Recap - Stunfest, Toryuken, Get On My Level and Lima Salty 3
This week's FGC Recap takes a look back at the weekend that was in the FGC, spanning the globe from Toronto to France and even down Peruvian way, and bringing you all the salt and all the hype the…
May 25, 2016 | 08:45 EDT
FGC Weekly Roundup - May 20th, 2016
The FGC Weekly Roundup returns with a look ahead to a triple Capcom Pro Tour event weekend, GetOnMyLevel 2016 and the biggest news of the past seven days and more. Let's get started with a glimpse at…
May 21, 2016 | 10:36 EDT
FGC Weekly Roundup - May 13th, 2016
The FGC Weekly Roundup returns with a glimpse at this weekend's biggest events and the stories that mattered this week in the Fighting Game Community. Let's hop aboard that jet from Street Fighter II…
May 14, 2016 | 08:00 EDT
FGC Recap - Dreamhack Austin, Thaiger Uppercut and Crash
The FGC Recap is back with another look back at the weekend that was in the FGC. Dreamhack Austin, the first Dreamhack event on US soil ever, held no shortage of fantastic fighting game moments.…
May 12, 2016 | 07:56 EDT
FGC Weekly Roundup - May 6th, 2016
The FGC Weekly Roundup is back with another brief preview of events to come this weekend, the top stories in the fighting game community this week and maybe a bit of salt as well. Let's start with…
May 6, 2016 | 09:19 EDT
FGC Recap - Northwest Majors, EGLX, KSB 2016
This past weekend didn't pack the bombast of Red Bull Kumite and Texas Showdown, but it did feature a Capcom Pro Tour ranking event (Northwest Majors), one of Japan's biggest majors (KSB 2016), and a…
May 6, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
FGC Weekly Roundup - April 29th, 2016
We're back with another edition of FGC Weekly Roundup. The past weekend's tournaments were a real megaton dropped onto the scene especially with the scorching heat of Red Bull Kumite still felt even…
April 29, 2016 | 08:45 EDT
Guile To Join Street Fighter V Roster On April 28th
Freedom is coming to Street Fighter V. Guile, the game's first full charge character looks to offer the zoning options that have been missing from the roster. The latest bit comes from the official…
April 27, 2016 | 04:24 EDT
FGC Recap - Red Bull Kumite, Texas Showdown
This past weekend was a showcase for talent on a global scale and in the American fighting game scene with the lavish Red Bull Kumite and Texas Showdown events now in the books. Add in the PAX Arena…
April 26, 2016 | 10:26 EDT
FGC Weekly Roundup - April 22nd, 2016
Welcome to the FGC Weekly Roundup which will feature the latest in the tournament scene, all sorts of hype and a fair amount of salt too.This past weekend saw some of the biggest names in the…
April 23, 2016 | 10:51 EDT
Mortal Kombat X has a Steam posting
If you haven't recently checked out Steam's front page, well it's time to check. Look's like NetherRealm Studios has taken the initiative to port the massive franchise to PC along with the console…
February 6, 2015 | 02:06 EST