Fighting game news
Recent attributed headlines from FGC news sources, collected in one current overview.
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- Masahiro Sakurai is seen at VS Studio alongside other developers, but this doesn't mean he's making the new Smash Bros. there EventHubs, 2026-10-22
It's been nearly a year since Katsuhiro Harada announced his departure from Bandai Namco . Since then, he has formed VS Studio SNK alongside, well, SNK. A few months later, Ikeda Kohei also announced his departure from Bandai Namco . Fan...
- 2XKO’s Final Round: Sett, from the Top Rope! Riot Games (2XKO), 2026-10-22
When you’re down for the count, can you grit your teeth and channel a fighter’s spirit?
- Capcom apologizes about unauthorized data breach of over 11 million Capcom ID accounts EventHubs, 2026-10-22
Capcom has issued a public apology regarding the data breach of 11,774,247 Capcom ID accounts worldwide as of October 22, 2026. For those 11,774,247 accounts, information pertaining to each account's date of creation, account usernames,...
- Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emails Steam, 2026-10-22
Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter publishers Capcom have revealed that a data breach has seen a third-party gain access to information associated with more than 11 million Capcom ID accounts. "Suspicious activity" around the service, required to play online in ...
- FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves is now available on Nintendo Switch™ 2! Experience the heat of battle anywhere, anytime! SNK, 2026-10-22
Osaka, Japan — SNK Corporation is pleased to announce that the Nintendo Switch™ 2 version of the fighti […]
- FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves × Tokyo Revengers Mikey and Draken, the Tokyo Manji Gang’s Legendary Duo, Join the Fight Anime Trailer Now Available SNK, 2026-10-22
Osaka, Japan — SNK Corporation is pleased to announce the release today of the anime trai […]
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter designer discusses how Apocalypse's minimalistic yet gigantic design freed up capacity for Cammy EventHubs, 2026-10-22
About two years ago, Atsushi Tomita , designer for X-Men vs. Street Fighter, revealed the interesting decision to make final boss Apocalypse gigantic for the purpose of addressing a technical limitation of the time . Instead of making hi...
- 'Most of them will be unplayable' — Masahiro Sakurai warns against using AI to churn out unoriginal games EventHubs, 2026-10-21
Even though Masahiro Sakurai is the legendary creator of Super Smash Bros., he is more like the rest of the FGC than you'd think. He gushes about his favorite movies , spends too much time at his job and apparently hates AI.
- Emergency maintenance periods announced for... Street Fighter 5 and Dragon Ball FighterZ? EventHubs, 2026-10-21
Capcom has announced an "emergency maintenance" period for... wait, Street Fighter 5 ? Yes, you read that correctly. Capcom is preparing an update for Street Fighter 5, not Street Fighter 6. " Notice for Street Fighter 5: We will be cond...
- Yagami polls high ranked Tekken players on how strong they think every character is in Tekken 8 EventHubs, 2026-10-21
QAD| Yagami has established himself as a strong Reina player in Tekken 8 . He recently claimed to have polled other highly ranked players on how strong they think every character in Tekken 8 is. This is essentially a tier list, but it's...
- Japanese voice actress for Dragon Ball's Goku says that AI recreations of her voice 'lack heart' EventHubs, 2026-10-21
Like with many other online communities, AI generation tends to be extremely unpopular within the fighting game community. The sentiment holds true for us staff members here at EventHubs. Understandably, Masako Nozawa — who has voiced Dr...
- New numbers show Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a pretty big sales success, but will it convince the FGC? EventHubs, 2026-10-20
If you were to go by Steam sales, you'd be quick to say that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was the next dead fighting game . Now, we're getting some solid PlayStation 5 sales that could prove this entirely false.
- Masahiro Sakurai praises Godzilla Minus Zero, and you can already assume what the FGC is asking EventHubs, 2026-10-20
I recently wrote about how Smash creator Masahiro Sakurai is craving original ideas . Well, that apparently doesn't apply to film, because he recently saw Godzilla Minus Zero and loved it. There are currently 38 Godzilla films, starting...
- Zangief actor Olivier Richters says he aims to enter a Street Fighter 6 tournament playing Zangief, 'I want to be the ultimate Zangief' EventHubs, 2026-10-20
We just had the Street Fighter movie premiere and in case you didn't catch it yet, or are just generally curious, we did our own reviews of it here on EventHubs . One of the most fitting castings, at the very least visually, was Olivier...
- Street Fighter League Pro-JP 2026 early results, stream ft. MenaRD, Sahara, Tokido, Yamaguchi, Higuchi, Fuudo, Bonchan, Kazunoko, Shuto and more EventHubs, 2026-10-20
Update : This story has been updated with day 8 results. Japan's Street Fighter League is back yet again and will be running its group stage until mid-December of this year with Playoffs and Grand Finals to follow early next year. Player...
- Despite mixed reviews, the Street Fighter movie was a box office KO EventHubs, 2026-10-20
It's no surprise by now that the FGC has mixed feelings about the Street Fighter movie . But I think the sequel that was clearly set up at the end of the movie is definitely going to happen, whether we liked this movie or not. Because it...
- Patch notes for the Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves update that's adding Tokyo Revengers' Mikey and Draken to the roster EventHubs, 2026-10-19
Tokyo Revengers' Manjiro "Mikey" Sano and Ken "Draken" Ryuguji are due to join the roster for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves on October 22, 2026. This also happens to be the same day in which the game is ported to the Switch 2 (digitally...
- 'The single most requested counterplay guide I have ever received' — Broski details how to deal with Arjun in Street Fighter 6 EventHubs, 2026-10-19
"All right, today I'm going to try to do my best to help you guys beat Arjun," begun Broski in one of his latest videos. "Now, this might be the single most requested counterplay guide I have ever received in Street Fighter history, and...
- Tekken 8 competitor Ayorichie releases new ordered tier list for Season 3 EventHubs, 2026-10-19
RR| Ayorichie released a new Tekken 8 tier list just prior to Evo France 2026 . Notably, Ayorichie attended Evo France 2026, resulting in a respectable 33rd place finish with Leo as his main character. According to Ayorichie, the entire...
- Capcom Pro Tour 2026 World Warrior Finals early results, streams EventHubs, 2026-10-19
Update : This story has been updated with results for 13 out of 25 regions. As 2026 nears its end, the World Warrior circuits being held across the world for Street Fighter 6 are also reaching their end stages. This story will focus on c...
- Capcom раздает бесплатные промокоды на косметический контент для игроков в Street Fighter 6 Steam, 2026-10-19
Компания Capcom запустила праздничную акцию в Street Fighter 6 в честь премьеры нового фильма по франшизе. Игрокам доступны бесплатные специальные цвета для классических обликов (Outfit 2) избранных бойцов. Активировать бонусы по промокодам необходимо до 31 октября 2026 года. ...
- 'I hope you will turn your eyes to originality': Is Sakurai too tired of making the same games to work on Smash 6? EventHubs, 2026-10-19
It has become a meme in the Super Smash Bros. community that the FGC won't let Masahiro Sakurai rest. But has Sakurai been giving us actual hints all along that he is truly tired of making Super Smash Bros. games? His speech at the 16th...
- Nintendo representative says that the company still intends to support physical production of games amidst Sony announcement backlash EventHubs, 2026-10-18
Sony Interactive Entertainment (henceforth referred to as "SIE") announced shift away from physical game production for its consoles by January 2028. This was supposedly being done "to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference f...
- Test your knowledge of fighting game villainy with FGC Crossword 2: Spooky Edition! SuperCombo, 2026-10-18
The FGC crossword has been updated for October! This month's crossword by chef @dhamster brings in even more references and terminology from across fighting games with a focus on villainy. The post Test your knowledge of fighting game vi...
- 'We realized that if we didn't do something about Street Fighter, the IP would probably die in 10 years' — Shuhei Matsumoto EventHubs, 2026-10-18
Street Fighter 6 was able to achieve 7 million sales worldwide as of June 2026. Being that the game released back in June 2023, it is currently outpacing Street Fighter 5's sales, and is likely to outperform it altogether considering tha...
- EventHubs review of the Street Fighter movie, with multiple staff members EventHubs, 2026-10-17
Updated: We've added a fourth review from Nicholas MajinTenshinhan Taylor, concluding our written coverage of this film. We wanted to take a different approach and have multiple people review the October 16, 2026 release of the film Stre...
- Katsuhiro Harada once discussed how fighting games generally don't give opportunities to blame others for losses like other genres EventHubs, 2026-10-17
Back in 2024, Katsuhiro Harada had an interesting conversation with Shuhei Yoshida during the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Game Maker’s Notebook podcast. VGC provided notes of what was said during the podcast. Harada touched u...
- Arjun's story in Street Fighter 6 barely gives a single clue about the identity of his partner's killer EventHubs, 2026-10-16
Arjun is the second character released for Season 4 of Street Fighter 6 . With Yasmine also released, we're now just waiting for Tifa Lockhart (guest appearing from Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7) and Bosch. We've already heard plenty abo...
- Classic Costumes for Mai Shiranui and Terry Bogard in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves available for purchase on October 22 EventHubs, 2026-10-16
Fans were initially disappointed that Mai Shiranui wouldn't have her Classic Costume in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves . It felt like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate all over again when Masahiro Sakurai commented on why Mai was absent as a ba...
- Competitors JoKa and Farzeen collaborate to create new ordered tier list for Tekken 8 Season 3 EventHubs, 2026-10-16
JoKa and Farzeen recently collaborated to create a new ordered tier list for Tekken 8 Season 3. We're currently waiting on Roger Jr. and Yujiro Hanma for this season as Kunimitsu and Bob have already been released. Within this tier list,...