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ELEAGUE has announced that its next competition will feature Street Fighter V. The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational will see 32 of the best Street Fighter V players head to the ELEAGUE studio in Atlanta to battle it out for one of the larger prize pools in the game’s history. …
Read More »The Capcom Pro Tour 2017 kickoff event is also Lupe Fiasco’s album launch party
Capcom has announced that to kick off the Capcom Pro Tour in 2017 it will hold a massive party that will see top pros compete in show matches and the launch of Lupe Fiasco’s new album. The party will take place on February 17th in San Francisco, and will see …
Read More »Capcom’s digital sales increased 21.1% in 2016 to 6.1m units
Capcom has released its latest financial report for the nine months ending December 2016, but while net sales and operating income have both fallen for the company year-on-year, accelerated digital sales and higher sales of flagship software titles have given Capcom’s consumer business its first market expansion in four years. …
Read More »CEO confirms its 2017 tournament line up
Fighting Game tournament CEO has confirmed the games that will be played at its 2017 event. Street Fighter V, Pokken Tournament, Tekken 7, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Injustice 2, King of the Fighters, Guilty Gear Revelator Xrd and Killer Instinct have all been confirmed for …
Read More »Capcom Pro Tour details to be revealed at the end of February
Capcom has revealed that it will announce the first details of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour at the end of February. “Full details on #CPT2017 will be released in late February on http://capcomprotour.com,” read a tweet from the Capcom Fighters account. “In the interest of helping players plan their travel, …
Read More »Echo Fox go big on fighting games, sign Justin Wong, Tokido and Sonic Fox
Echo Fox, the eSports organisation founded by NBA legend Rick Fox, has signed a ton of top fighting game players. The organisation has acquired Taniguchi "Tokido" Hajime, Momochi "Momochi" Yusuke, Justin Wong and Momochi "ChocoBlanka" Yuko, who are some of the best Street Fighter V players in the world. These …
Read More »Evil Geniuses drop StarCraft division and some fighting game players
After becoming a fully player owned organisation Evil Geniuses has dropped its StarCraft II roster along with Street Fighter players Justin "JWong" Wong, Yusuke "Momochi" Momochi and Yuko "ChocoBlanka" Momochi. The release of the StarCraft team means that Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson and Chris "HuK" Loranger are now teamless, and neither …
Read More »Akuma arrives in Street Fighter V
The second season of Street Fighter V has kicked off, with a new playable character and a ton of new changes. Akuma is now available to purchase and play along with his story, premium battle and nostalgia costumes. Akuma is the first of six new characters due over the course …
Read More »The Capcom Cup reached 87,000 on ESPN
The top eight portion of the Capcom Cup competition was broadcast on ESPN2 in the States over the weekend and according to initial stats it was watched by 87,000 people. According to SportsTVRatings.com around 87,000 tuned into the brodcast at one point or another, with around 46,000 being between 18 …
Read More »Capcom Cup’s top eight to be broadcast on ESPN2 one day after the event concludes
The top eight portion of the Capcom Cup will be broadcast on ESPN2 on Sunday December 4th. This part of the competition will actually take place at the PlayStation Experience on December 3rd, when it will be streamed live on Twitch. However ESPN2 will then rebroadcast the final stages of …
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