Evo 2024: All the big reveals and announcements
Evo 2024 brings the best fighting game players to Las Vegas this weekend for a three-day tournament. This year’s Evo is the biggest in the event’s history, with more than 10,000 unique competitors facing off in games like Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, and Mortal Kombat 1.
On top of being the fighting game tournament, Evo has also become a major news event. Publishers and developers like SNK, Warner Bros., and Arc System Works dropped new game reveals, character announcements, and release date details at Evo.
Here’s everything announced at Evo 2024 (so far).
Season 2 of MultiVersus kicks off July 23, and it will bring new fighter Samurai Jack with it. Later in season 2 — probably very close to the September release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in movie theaters — will see the addition of another new fighter, Beetlejuice (confirming an old data leak). Samurai Jack is a Bruiser class character, and he’s armed with his mystical katana and fancy footwork, as shown in his reveal trailer — which also teases his Righteous Warrior Jack character variant.
In addition to Samurai Jack, ranked mode and a new stage, the Warner Bros. Water Tower, will be added to MultiVersus on July 23.
King of Fighters veterans Vice and Mature will come to The King of Fighters 15 this December, developers from SNK announced at Evo 2024. They’ll sport their classic looks, and be available as stand-alone fighters — not as some sort of two-in-one deal.
Mature made her debut in The King of Fighters ’94. Vice followed a year later, debuting in The King of Fighters ’95. The duo will get a simultaneous release at the end of 2024.
SWAT officer Kevin Rian joins the roster for next year’s Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. Kevin made his debut in Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and just as he did in that game, he’ll use explosive attacks to defeat his opponents. In fact, we see Kevin about to use an explosive round to power up a punch to Terry Bogard’s face.
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