posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Tekken 8 wins Best Game Release at inaugural EVO Awards
The Evolution Championship Series (EVO) fighting game tournament revealed at the inaugural EVO Awards on Saturday the full lineup for the EVO USA 2025 tournament in Las Vegas on August 1-3.
— Evo (@Evo) February 16, 2025
The games featured include:
- Street Fighter 6
- Tekken 8
- Guilty Gear -Strive-
- Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
- Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Marvel vs. CAPCOM 2: New Age of Heroes
The games included in the “new extended lineup” include:
- Rivals of Aether II
- Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
- The King of Fighters XV
- BlazBlue: CentralFiction
- Killer Instinct
- Samurai Shodown
- Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
- CAPCOM vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
Tekken 8 won Best Game Release at the awards on Saturday.
EVO Japan will be held in Tokyo on May 9-11 and EVO France will be happening in Nice, on October 10-12. The EVO fighting game tournament will also be held in Singapore in 2026.
The EVO Japan 2024 event was held at Ariake GYM-EX (Ariake Exhibition Center) in Tokyo on April 27-29. EVO USA 2024 was held on July 19-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
