Evo 2024, Another Amazing Weekend of Fighting Games and Announcements

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Evolution 2024, the biggest open fighting game event to ever be organized has once again concluded its 2024 edition last weekend as it was a weekend filled with ups and downs, excitements, upsets, and success stories only the fighting game community can produce.

There are so many great moments that are hard to point out. The unexpected split from a 40+-year-old Street Fighter 3rd Strike player is one of those moments you wished you were there to see it unfold.

We even greats like SonicFox still being on top of the Mortal Kombat world to PunkDaGod finally getting his first ever Street Fighter Evo win. For Punk, it was probably the hardest way to win as a bracket reset happened and it went down to the final round to the point that it was simply a coin flip as both players in the grand finals was even and deserved the top podium.

The Big Annnouncements

Evo is a big stage, and any fighting game developer knows this as it’s literally a direct line to their target market, so it’s only natural that Evo 2024 has yet again become a platform for the biggest announcements and reveal for the latest and upcoming titles in the fighting game genre.

Here’s a quickfire rundown of all the big announcements.

Tekken 8’s next DLC character is Heihachi Mishima

First Look at Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6

Guilty Gear Season Pass 4 Filled with updates and new characters, including Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunner’s Lucy

Granblue Fatasy Versus’ Next Character is Versusia

Samurai Jack and Beetlejuice is coming to MultiVersus

KOF XV Adding Mature and Vice

Next year’s Fatal Fury” City of Wolves Adds Kevin Rian to Roster

SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos Coming to Modern Consoles

Upcoming 3v3 Hunter X Hunter game released a new trailer for Meruem

Under Night In-Birth to Be Updated with The Black Monger this July

Evo will be back again next year as Evo is going even bigger in 2025 as the next Evo event will be in Los Angeles in February 2025, Japan in May 2025, then France in October 2025. They even announced that Evo is coming to Singapore in 2026.

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