EVO 2023 is finally here. And my god, IT’S HUGE! I’m not joking, this year’s EVO is the largest fighting game tournament in history with over 9000+ entrants from 71 different countries! No, I’m not going to make...

Street Fighter V… where do I begin? Seems just like yesterday when I wrote a blog about saying goodbye to SF4, you came out with a rocky start. I remember back in 2016 while I was working at Best Buy that I got the game and play...

Can you believe it has been three years since EVO Japan has been in a hiatus? EVO Japan is the Japanese edition of the EVO series that made its official debut on January 26-28, 2018. The lineup for EVO Japan is usually different from ...

After my Virtua Fighter stream, me and a couple friends in the VF community watched the EVO 2023 Lineup Reveal hosted by IFC Yipes and Ryan Hart, and it’s a decent lineup. Although I will say that EVO being sponsored by Chipotle...

2022 was a return to form for the Fighting Game Community. This was the year where offline tournaments are back in full swing once again. Last year, we saw several fighting game releases such as The King of Fighters XV, DNF Duel, Multi...

In 1993, SEGA released Virtua Fighter for arcades, marking it as the first-ever 3D fighting game in history. Since then, the franchise has seen several forms of media, from sequels, side-games, collabs, anime, comics, and more.  B...

Before I begin this blog, I just want to say that I usually plan out my topics for Virtua Fighter Month sometime around September-October in which it gives me time to find out what to discuss. This is one of them since this was planned...

I’m going to be honest here: I could not get into Kingdom Hearts as a kid growing up. I remember playing the first game and I was immediately turned off by the time I got to Hollow Bastion because I screwed up during the boss bat...

Ah, Fightcade. My go-to for online play with poverty fighting games. For those that don’t know what Fightcade is, it’s a freeware app for playing retro games online, bundled with various emulators from FinalBurn Neo, SNES9x...

It’s December. You already know that Virtua Fighter Month is here and of course: I need to blog about Virtua Fighter stuff. I’m also excited about the fact that Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is one of the seven games a...

It’s been so long since we’ve seen an offline EVO event. Back in 2020, EVO 2020 was supposed to happen with a great lineup with one of them being Marvel vs. Capcom 2’s 20th Anniversary, but then… the pandemic h...

I haven’t done this in a while. The last time we’ve done a blog like this was two years ago, and that was before COVID hit that year. Anyway… we’re back! As you all know, Sajam and Tasty Steve hosted the EVO 2...

2021 had some redemption compared to 2020. We’re still living in a pandemic, but things are slowly but surely beginning to open up again for offline tournaments. This year we’ve witnessed several releases such as Guilty Gea...

In the Japanese Virtua Fighter community, there are two titles that SEGA gives away to strong players. They are Tetsujins and Star Players. I’ve talked about the history of the Beat-Tribe Cup series years ago and I also mentioned...

This year marks the anniversary of two games in the Virtua Fighter series, both released five years apart from each other. Virtua Fighter 3 and Virtua Fighter 4 are the two games that were released in 1996 and 2001 respectively.  ...

Ah yes, Taka-Arashi. The sumo who made his debut in Virtua Fighter 3 and the one character that put emphasis on the weight class system in 3D fighting games. It’s an interesting case that we’re talking about this character ...

It has been so long since I’ve talked about Dead or Alive on a blog, let alone the fact that this year is the 25th Anniversary of the franchise and I haven’t talked about it at all. I mean I did talk about the 20th Annivers...

Every year when I do Virtua Fighter Month, I always wonder if I’m going to be running out of topics to talk about in regards to VF. To be honest, if Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown didn’t become a thing, I would have eas...

Before Smash Bros became a thing, I was already hip to the Nintendo games that I played growing up. Aside from growing up playing fighting games like Virtua Fighter and Tekken, I played a lot of games from franchises that I know and lo...

After ten long years… it’s time for a curtain call for VF5FS. Can you believe it has been 10 whole years since Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown has been released? It’s crazy that this game has lasted a full decade! Th...

Let’s be real here: 2020 was hot garbage overall. We did see some releases for games such as Granblue Fantasy Versus, Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late[cl-r], Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, and Samurai...

Ten years ago on February 5, 2011, three well-known Let’s Players shared a hotel room, plugged in a Nintendo 64, and recorded themselves playing Mario Party 1 for the Nintendo 64. And the rest became LP history. My first time ex...

Picture this: You’re doing command training in Virtua Fighter. You were doing well in practicing the character’s strings until you got to one of their most difficult one, which requires a strict input. Now you’re left...

In a few days, I’ll be celebrating my one year anniversary of becoming Twitch Affiliate all because of Virtua Fighter. Yes, the Fighting Game History 101 stream from last year is the reason why I made affiliate. Speaking of whic...

We all know December is Virtua Fighter month, but this month is also the 15th Anniversary of the Yakuza franchise. Crazy, right? 15 years since Yakuza debuted as one of SEGA’s IPs from the mid-2000s.  On December 8, 2005, Y...

It’s December, and you already know what that means: It’s Virtua Fighter Month once again! But before we get into that… Happy 25th Anniversary to the SEGA Saturn release of Virtua Fighter 2, which was released on De...

It's that time once again, folks. Sonic Hacking Contest 2020 is almost here and I am very excited for it! You might be wondering: "Kazama, what is the Sonic Hacking Contest? What's so great about it?" Well, I'll tell you, good sir! The...

Oh my God. Can you believe it has been 10 years since Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown was released to the public? A full decade! I remember back in 2010 where there was a petition to get Virtua Fighter 5 R to consoles since it had two ...

In 2017, I created a second YouTube channel dedicated to doing Let’s Play channels just so that I can have fun and enjoy video games. For two years, I spent time trying to create an audience, but I’ve been struggling to do ...

Can you believe that today is the 20th Anniversary of Marvel vs. Capcom 2? On this day in 2000, Capcom released the fourth installment of the Marvel vs. Capcom series that not only brings back all the characters from both the Capcom an...