The Biggest Reveals and Announcements During Evo 2023
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Evo 2023, the biggest event that hosts premier fighting game tournaments for the top titles in the genre,e has concluded and during the weekend various studios took the opportunity to show new content for their upcoming fighting game titles.
Here are the biggest reveals that were shown over the weekend this year.
Mortal Kombat 1 - Banished Trailer
NetherRealm was present at this year’s big event and revealed a new trailer announcing Reptile, Ashrah, and Havik will be part of Mortal Kombat 1’s main roster at launch.
Project L - Yasuo revealed
Everybody knew Riot Games was going to be present as they brought a playable demo of their 2v2 fighting game currently called Project L to Evo 2023, confirming there will be four playable characters in the demo. Three has been revealed previously, so a character announcement was definitely coming, and it happens to be the reveal of Yasuo, the Unforgiven.
Street Fighter 6 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration goes live this week
Before the start of the event’s main event, the Street Fighter 6 top 6, Capcom had a few surprises and started with the reveal of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration that allows players to rock skins of their favorite turtle in Street Fighter 6.
The collaboration will be available starting this week, August 8.
Street Fighter 6 - A.K.I. Reveal trailer
Capcom wasn’t done with the announcements as they also reveal the new DLC character coming to Street Fighter 6. She’s called A.K.I. and is a maniacal fighter that specializes in poisons. Just like the first DLC character Rashid, A.K.I. will also be available as a mentor in the World Tour game mode to allow a player’s avatar to learn the new fighter’s move set and make it their own.
Under Night in-birth 2 Sys: Celes announced
Developer Arc System Works revealed that in collaboration with developer French-Bread, they will be working on a new fighting game title called Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, a follow up title to the 2012 title Under Night In-Birth. The 2D fighting game is set for a 2024 release and will be released on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. They also announced that this new game will feature rollback netcode for online play.
Tekken 8 - character reveals
Raven
Azucena
Bandai Namco was naturally present at Evo 2023 and brought with them new information such as the reveal of Raven’s return and newcomer Azucena, who apparently is considered the coffee queen from Peru. Sadly, no release date for Tekken 8 was given during the event.
Guilty Gear Strive - Johnny announced
Arc System Works may be busy with other projects but they are not done with Guilty Gear Strive as they announced season 3, which contains another batch of new characters coming to the fighting game, and the first one announced in this batch is Johnny who will be joining the roster on August 24.
They also announced that a “large-scale update” is in the works that will balance the entire cast, add new battle mechanics and add new special moves for some characters.
Fatal Fury: City of Wolves Announced
It was known that SNK was working on a new Fatal Fury title but never revealed the game’s official title until now. The new game is called Fatal Fury: City of Wolves. We didn’t get gameplay of the fighting game as all that was shown was audio of a match between characters, but SNK did confirm that the game will feature a cel-shaded look.
No platform or release date was given as well.
Nickelodean All-Star Brawl 2 - Plankton revealed
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