Capcom Offering a $2 Million Prize Pool in New Season of Capcom Pro Tour

The new tour will feature Street Fighter 6.

The Capcom Pro Tour 2023 season was officially announced this past weekend alongside a $2 million prize pool. This cool $2 million figure include a grand prize of $1 million for the Capcom Cup X, which is now the largest ever cash prize for a Capcom Cup winner.

The 2023 season for the Tour is expected to begin this summer and will include offline, online, and regional World Warrior battles. The focus for this new season will be...

To be broadcast live starting on December 13.

Professional wrestler and recurring fighting game community (FGC) personality, Kenny Omega, will be your co-host for the 2019 Capcom Cup in Los Angeles, California from December 13-15.

This annual fighting game tournament is centered around Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition for this year. The event typically runs throughout the entire year and pulls in players and fans from literally all around the globe (flat-Earthers need...

Today, WBIE and NetherRealm revealed the first look at Mortal Kombat 11's brutal gameplay in a huge stream. This reveal event live stream included multiple new looks at gameplay from the upcoming fighting game, including a heaping helping of fatalities, combos, new tech, and even the opening cinematic. It was capped off by a short pro tournament between some of the world's best in the fighting game community.

Also revealed during today's event is the fact that Ronda Rousey,...

From December 1-2, a new king of the Iron Fist Tournament will be crowned. The Tekken World Tour 2018 Finals are headed to Amsterdam, bringing with it some of the world's best fighters. These players will battle it out in Tekken 7 to see whom among them is truly the best.

With prize money on-the-line, the stakes for ultimate victory at the TEKKEN World Tour 2018 Finals will be high. Players wishing to participate, but who have not qualified through placement tournaments during the regular

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The second episode in the "Souls and Swords" documentary series for Soulcalibur just went live today. If you missed the first video that went up last week, you can find that here.

Today's video focuses on the community that the series has built up over the years.

A healthy and robust community is one of the cornerstones for any great fighting game and SOULCALIBUR is home to one of the best communities in the videogame world. What is it about SOULCALIBUR that has created

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Koei Tecmo just announced that they will have playable Dead or Alive 6 builds at the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) 2018, taking place August 3-4 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Those headed to the event can find the demo stations set up at the Koei Tecmo booth on the show floor. In addition to being playable, they will hold a special Dead or Alive 6 mini-tournament in addition to their Dead or Alive 5 Last Round championship. The Dead or Alive 5 championship...

A Twitch viewer caused a fair bit of panic today after they threatened a mass shooting at this year's Evolution Championship Series (EVO). The Twitch user called "quackquackhonks" apparently made the threat earlier today in another user's stream chat.


Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar was quick to issue a statement about the threat. The head of EVO stated that he has already informed the FBI via their tips website. He says he has also notified Twitch.

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A Twitch viewer caused a fair bit of panic today after they threatened a mass shooting at this year's Evolution Championship Series (EVO). The...