Everything announced at Evo 2024: SNK vs. Capcom, Heihachi in Tekken 8, and more
This year’s edition of the Evolution Championship Series, colloquially known as Evo 2024, was held this past weekend and served as the biggest fighting game tournament event of the year. As a result, a lot of fighting game developers showed up with exciting announcements. These reveals ranged from new titles to DLC characters coming to beloved fighting games, including some surprising guest fighters. If you’re wondering what you missed this past weekend, I’ve rounded up every significant announcement made during Evo 2024 and sorted them by developer.
SNK: SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos and much more
The King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown developer SNK showed up big at EVO 2024. It shadow-dropped SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos — a rerelease of a classic crossover fighting game featuring online play with rollback netcode — for PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4.
It teased two more DLC characters coming to The King of Fighters XV this December: Vice and Mature. We also learned that Garou: Mark of the Wolves‘ Kevin Rian will return in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as a playable fighter when it launches early next year.
SNK teased its future in fighting games and even other genres. During its Evo 2024 panel, SNK confirmed that it is working on the first new Art of Fighting game since 1996’s Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior. Additionally, it is creating an action RPG set in the universe of the Samurai Shodown series. While the latter isn’t a fighting game, it’s clear we’re entering an SNK renaissance right now.
Capcom: First look at Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6 and more
Street Fighter 6 was the marquee game of Evo 2024, and during the show, we got our first look at the fighting game’s next DLC character. That brings SNK back into the picture as it’s Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury, who will come to Capcom’s popular fighting game sometime this fall.
While we didn’t get a release date for Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics at Evo, it was playable
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