Gamers around the world will have to defeat many a Shoryuken to stand a chance to win the largest and longest running fighting game tournament in the world. The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) has revealed their line up for this year and a donation drive with all proceeds going to a Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The confirmed seven games that will be competed in are:
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Mortal Kombat 9
- Street Fighter X Tekken 2013
- King of Fighters XIII
- Persona 4 Arena
Eight game donation drive
The eight titles to be competed in are still to be determined by a donation drive. There’s a page set up for the most popular games in previous Facebook polls, players can vote for the game they’d like to be the eight title, by making a small donation on that page. The game will be announced at the end of the month.
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- SFIII Third Strike, Online Edition
- Virtua Fighter 5
- Divekick
- Melty Blood Actress Again Current
- MLP: Fighting is Magic
- Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
- Dead or Alive 5
- Capcom vs. SNK 2
- Injustice
- Skullgirls
- Street Fighter II Super Turbo
- Blazblue
- Soul Calibur V
- Darkstalkers 3
Life’s greatest moments
Evo made a pretty awesome video about last year’s tournament, giving the world just a taste of what it was like. Check out one of life’s greatest moments at 2:30.
[field name=iframe]Last Updated: January 10, 2013