Evo 2024 Games Announced, Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 Headline

A new battle begins

by Robert Ramsey 3h ago

Evo 2024 Tekken Street Fighter — *Image: Push Square*

The main games lineup for Evo 2024 has been revealed, and to the surprise of no one, Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 are the headline acts. Those heavy hitters will be joined by Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth 2 [Sys:Celes], Mortal Kombat 1, King of Fighters XV, and Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike (the latter being Evo's 'retro' pick for 2024).

This'll be the very first Evo for Tekken 8 and Under Night In-Birth 2. Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is also a newer game, but it actually had a pre-release tournament at Evo 2023, so this technically isn't its first appearance.

For those totally out of the loop, Evo is the world's biggest fighting game event, consisting of professional-level tournaments for major titles. It's typically watched by hundreds of thousands of people over the course of its dedicated weekend, and anyone can enter its competitions. A few years back, Evo was acquired by Sony, and so PlayStation is now its main sponsor.

Evo 2024 will take place over the weekend starting 19th July, until the 21st July. It's being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, if the name didn't already give it away. You can register for an Evo pass right now by visiting the official site — but if you're staying home, you'll be able to watch all of the action via official channels on streaming sites like Twitch.

Are you looking forward to Evo? Start practicing some combos in the comments section below.

[source evo.gg]

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Deoxyr1bose
2h ago

Unironically surprised Mortal Kombat 1 made it in. I thought it was gonna get MvC I’ed, especially with how NRS games haven’t been that big in general for the greater FGC.

If xbox goes 3rd party KI can be a retro tournament in the future, Sony already gave it some love last year. A PS port could help a lot LOL.

@Deoxyr1bose after Hogwarts success the PS-WB partnership is something both parties won't let go for now. MK had an invitation all the time.

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Deoxyr1bose
2h ago

@gymratAmarillo Mortal Kombat 11 wasn’t in the original 2020 lineup, which was only a year after it came out. MK11 was also way more of a success than MK1 was. Also I don’t know to what extent Sony controls the game lineup itself. Does Sony really want 3rd Strike of all games? No, the FGC does.

Strange that Sony does not yet have their own fighting game. Either they need to build one from the ground up, or they need to finally marry Namco Bandai.

@Deoxyr1bose Sony doesn't decide everything, that's true. But the same way the EVO GM always answered the "where is ki" with "we have to ask". If you made millions with a partner who happens to have a fg and would benefit from some exposition you can do the same, ask.

@TheCollector316 once EVO Europe is up and running I wouldn't be surprised. Bungie is/was working in what they called a "fighter" but after last year maybe that never happens.