Forget NBA, Euro 2012 or even Baseball, this summer is all about Evo! You may not have heard about the Evolution Championship Series - shame on you - so I will present it very briefly. Evo is the biggest fighting game tournament of the year and it is happening this week-end (July 6th-8th) in Las Vegas, Nevada. UPDATE : Results have been added
Everyone can participate in the tournament, we’re expecting thousands of participants for Evo 2012. Last year, a million people watched Poongko body Daigo on stage. Players will be playing seven different games, competing for $100,000 in prize money. Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Version 2012 is obviously still the star of the show but you will be able to watch some other great games like Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom, Soulcalibur V, Street Fighter x Tekken, Virtua Fighter V, King Of Fighters XIII and Mortal Kombat 9. You know we’re very cool people at Gamersyde, this is why we’re live-twitting the event on @Gamersyde on Twitter. Be sure to follow us over there to get all the info live. We’re primarily focusing on Street Fighter IV because there is a ton of great players that are coming this year :
Four of the five gods of Fighting Games are coming directly from Japan to blow America up : Daigo (he won the SF4 tournament at Evo 2009 and 2010), Haitani, Sako, and Tokido. America is ready. They have been training hard since last year, when Fuudo (JP) took it over Latif (US) on Grand Finals. Mike "Believe" Ross, Ricky Ortiz, J.Wong of course, Wolfkrone, Chris G, Combofiend, or Sandford Kelly are hungry. You can count on them to entertain you this week-end. Evo is not only about Japan and America, Europeans will also be there to show the world that they are the best. Starnab, Evans or Cuongster for France will have a chance to do something in Las Vegas. Ryan "The Prodigal Son" Hart is also coming from England to prove that he is the man. Xian from Singapore, Infiltration and Poongko from Korea are representing Asia. Poongko "The Machine" has tamed Daigo "The Beast" Umehara last year and show the word that he is the craziest man in the world. If you need one reason to watch Evo, it is Poongko. We’re not forgetting Mago, Uryo, Bonchan, Flash Metroid, Kazunoko, Allex Valle, Dieminion, Yipes, Juicebox, Filipino Champ, Fanatiq, Viscant, Pr Balrog, Kayane, Keev... and many more.
Team Spooky and IPlayWinner will stream the event on Twitch.Tv (we will give you the url later, along with the schedule). You can check the online brackets here and download a mobile app to have a complete schedule in your pocket. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@Gamersyde) and to come back here to check all the results.
Sath
I dont like to sprint a few secs, pause a few secs, rinse and repeat. Its a video game stop taking breaths. games like FC3, Borderlands/2 did it right. (53 minutes ago)
Sath
@Seth: well not, in combat its okay, but when you have no fast travel in traditional sense and no horse or whatever but gotta sprint for so long, stamina is important IMO (54 minutes ago)
Seth
i have nothing agaist the stamina - it's not ng/dmc game after all. :p (55 minutes ago)
Sath
@Seth: yep, only thing DD did well was bosses, combat (god i hate the stamina in games lol) and some of the clothing/armor and some music tracks during battles, everything else was bad IMO, CC is good (1 Hour ago)
Seth
@Sath: lol yeah, i actually looked for an option in menus to disable pawns picking up items, but there wasn't one. :( (1 Hour ago)
Sath
@Seth: I just hoped they would fix fast travel without ferrystones, not have pawns pick up every single shit they see on the ground since it means more micromanaging which i hate, and they not be dumb (1 Hour ago)
Seth
with issues or not, DD2 is day one for me, unlike let's say any new bethesda rpg. :p (2 Hours ago)
Driftwood
If you are interested in Arma 3, stick around between now and tonight. ;) (9 Weeks ago)
Game2k
You can follow the Playstation Meeting live right here [url] (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood
Rocksmith will eventually be released in Europe on September 27 (360/PS3) and October 18 on PC. New content with the new possibility to plug in a bass guitar. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood
A couple of updated release dates for games to come: Far Cry 3 will be released on 360/PS3/PC on November 29 in Europe and December 4 in North America. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood
After Max Payne 3, more PC videos with Project CARS. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood
It's been a while since I last came here. Sorcery may not be the game you're all waiting for, but it's a nice surprise for a PS Move game. Videos now available. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood
Our videos of I Am Alive are up. (> 3 Months ago)
Sath I dont like to sprint a few secs, pause a few secs, rinse and repeat. Its a video game stop taking breaths. games like FC3, Borderlands/2 did it right. (53 minutes ago)
Seth i have nothing agaist the stamina - it's not ng/dmc game after all. :p (55 minutes ago)
Driftwood If you are interested in Arma 3, stick around between now and tonight. ;) (9 Weeks ago)
All comments
This is a Cool part of Gaming History every year :)
Glad Gamersyde is reporting about it !
No BlazBlue makes me sad.
You can watch the top 8 finalist here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpCom3opMdc