HILDE RETURNS IN THE SEASON TWO DLC PASS SoulCalibur VI‘s release revitalized the entire franchise; so much so that another DLC season was announced back at EVO 2019. That reveal not only brought another guest character, but it brought back another franchise classic fighter in Cassandra. Now the second member of season two is another familiar face of the franchise in Hilde. Hilde first appeared in the franchise in SoulCalibur IV, with her going on a journey to find Siegfried

GET READY FOR A NEW SEASON! Normally the fighting video games we cover are separated, but EVO 2019 looked to redo the entire landscape. So check out all of the announcements for next year: GUILTY GEAR 2020 Only a teaser trailer was shown, but a new Guilty Gear game was revealed for next year. Titled Guilty Gear 2020, the game will be fully 3D from the models to the environment to the cutscenes. <img src="https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/vAJUvy4ibeA/hqdefault.jpg?w=525&#038;ss

SAY HELLO TO PROJECT SCARLETT Microsoft took the first actual conference of E3 and revealed its ace in the hole: Project Scarlett. But here’s everything else it announced: ELDEN RING Turns out George R.R. Martin is working on a video game. The game comes from FromSoftware and is called Elden Ring. <img src="https://i2.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/4eco_7d94iU/hqdefault.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="YouTube Poster"> GEARS OF WAR 5 (GEARS 5) Gears of War 5

ALL OF BETHESDA’S ANNOUNCEMENTS AT E3 2019 After Electronic Arts, it was Bethesda’s turn. Granted they shared the day with Microsoft as well. Here’s how they plan to recover from Fallout 76: FALLOUT 76 Bethesda quickly addressed their mishap with Fallout 76 and decided that a Battle Royale mode would be the way to fix it. The Battle Royale mode can hold 52 players and a free DLC will kick off Year 2 called “Wastelanders”. Wastelanders and the Battle Royale mode will be free a

EA’S E3 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS Electronic Arts pulled a Sony and Nintendo by revealing trailers and gameplay footage instead of a “traditional” press conference. Here’s what we can expect: FIFA 20 It’s not EA if they don’t have sports games so the obligatory FIFA franchise was showcased. Besides updates to rosters and gameplay maneuvers, the FIFA Street franchise will return in the form of Volta mode and female players can be created now. Also, a new penalty kick system is introd

GAME FREAK HAD SOME GREAT SURPRISES Earlier this year, Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield were announced with a good chunk of information to keep fans waiting. While fans thought they’d have to wait until E3, Game Freak went ahead and released a Pokemon Direct a few days before the gaming convention. Let’s take a look: GYM LEADERS RETURN The stadium-like buildings featured in the game’s announcement were actually Pokemon Gyms. Classic gym battles return, except it looks as if t

KOTAL KHAN AND JACQUI TO RETURN IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11 NetherRealm Studios decided to skip a week of Kombat Kast to reveal the story trailer for Mortal Kombat 11. Fans were quick to notice that the story trailer featured Kotal Khan and Jacqui (Jax’s daughter). With the cat out of the bag, NetherRealm Studios took to officially reveal both characters during this week’s Kombat Kast episode. Kotal Khan returns from Mortal Kombat X with a revamped moveset. He resembles more of a bra

CASSIE CAGE TO RETURN IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11 Mortal Kombat 11 dropped some huge news today with a story trailer and another character reveal. While some of the game’s story details are already out in the open, we now know what happened to some of the previous roster’s fates as well as the exact scale of this new fight. The entire universe is scheduled for destruction after an “alternate” version of Raiden kills Shinnok. The one to orchestrate this destruction is the ruler of tim

JOHNNY CAGE TO RETURN IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11 With Mortal Kombat 11 slated for an April 23rd launch, NetherRealm Studios has been revealing the game’s roster through its Kombat Kast streaming series. While this week’s Kombat Kast revealed details on Mortal Kombat‘s mobile game, Johnny Cage was teased to be in the game by series creator Ed Boon. With the tease out of the way, NetherRealm decided to just reveal the trailer anyway. Johnny Cage may have aged but his Hollywood antics

“BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE” ADDS A NEW FRANCHISE TO THE ROSTER BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle successfully crossed over staple characters of three video game franchises and an “anime”. Despite 20 characters being released as DLC, the full 40 fighters became available this past summer. While the reveal of the last nine DLC characters was news-breaking, it seems that players forgot the announcement of a fifth franchise being added to the fray. With Japan EVO 2019 ending, Arc Systems

AMY RETURNS AS DLC IN “SOULCALIBUR VI” SoulCalibur VI‘s release roster was filled out with the return of Raphael Sorel, only for newer additions to the roster being made DLC. Now a fan-favorite and somewhat non-explored character will be a part of the next DLC pack in the form of Amy. Amy takes the name Sorel as she was an orphan who unintentionally saved Rapahel from pursuing soldiers; and who in return adopted her. She was originally just a plot device for Raphael, but beca

JADE TO RETURN TO MORTAL KOMBAT 11 Ever since the official live stream reveal for Mortal Kombat 11, NetherRealm Studios has decided to reveal news about the game through a dedicated stream series called Kombat Kast. The stream has already revealed two other characters in Kabal and D’Vorah; with the newest episode revealing Jade. Jade was last seen in the 2011 edition of Mortal Kombat where she was killed by Sindel and then revived as a slave for Quan Chi. Based on her appea

A VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE AND A CULT CLASSIC JOIN JUMP FORCE When Shonen Jump crossover fighting game Jump Force drops on February 15th, it will be the celebration of the publication lasting 50 years. Now to finally complete it’s roster, the last five characters have been announced. Out of the five characters, only three are new additions. The first two characters to be added to the roster are actually the villains Kane and Galeena. They won’t be available at the start, but they

KABAL AND D’VORAH TO RETURN IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11 The first big reveal for Mortal Kombat 11 came from a live streamed presentation, showcasing the return pre-order bonus of Shao Khan and the return of many fan favorite characters. Shortly after, in a stream from Brazil, Kano was revealed to make his return to the franchise. Since Mortal Kombat 11 will launch on April 23rd, a short turn-around from it’s initial reveal, NetherRealm Studios has decided to launch a series of stream

“MORTAL KOMBAT 11” WILL KILL YOU MORTAL KOMBAT 11 was announced back at the 2018 Video Game Awards but no actual information was available…until today. With creative director and Mortal Kombat mastermind Ed Boon on stage during a live streamed reveal event, the upcoming game’s story, characters and gameplay mechanics were revealed; along with a few other surprises. Firstly, the character of Sonya Blade was revealed to be played by WWE Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey, with h

RAPHAEL WILL FALL INTO MADNESS IN SOULCALIBUR VI Tira may have been the first DLC announced for SoulCalibur VI, but at the time the main roster still had some space available. Recently, those spots were taken up by new antagonist Azwel and just last week, a returning Cervantes. Bandai Namco, ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, has revealed possibly the last character to join the main roster. Another character making their return to the franchise is Raphael Sorel. While the overall

CERVANTES WILL RETURN FOR SOULCALIBUR VI Tira’s announcement as DLC for SoulCalibur VI was a swerve. After Azwel was revealed to be a part of the main roster, fans of the franchise were given hope that the game would release with a few more characters available to choose from. After all, SoulCalibur VI will launch with 3 DLC characters and the future of other DLC remains to be seen; so with the franchise on its last legs, the more available fighters during release the better.

SOULCALIBUR VI WELCOMES ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER: AZWEL SoulCalibur VI made a controversial announcement when fan favorite Tira was revealed as DLC. Many franchise fans were hoping she’d return on the roster when the game first released, similar to Zasalamel. Tira’s announcement as DLC also provided the idea that the roster had been finalized. Now Bandai Namco has created a buzz by announcing another new character. The new character is called Azwel and fights using his Palindrom

NINTENDO REVEALS FIVE NEW CHARACTERS & BONUSES In a follow-up to E3, Nintendo did their traditional Nintendo Direct streams to give fans an update on current projects. While most of us didn’t really expect much, boy were we blown over. When Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was announced, it seemed that nothing could make the game better. Every character in the franchise’s history was revealed to be playable, along with Nintendo introducing newer echo fighters, a new debut with Ridl

BLEACH CHARACTERS TO DEBUT IN VIDEO GAME JUMP FORCE E3 2018 was last month, but the updates just keep coming. The Bandai Namco game Jump Force was announced at the convention as a 3 on 3 fighting game between iconic characters that have debuted in the Shonen Jump weekly magazine. The announcement trailer featured Goku and Frieza from Dragon Ball Z, Monkey Luffy and Zoro of One Piece and Naruto and Sasuke of Naruto as part of the main roster. Now another staple of the Jump fra