Update #2 []: Following the news EVO 2025 would be running an "extended lineup" of tournaments featuring various other fighting games, the final roster for this has now been confirmed.
Joining the existing five games will be Samurai Shodown, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, and Capcom vs. SNK 2. The event will take place between 1st - 3rd August this year.
This follows Capcom's news earlier this month - confirming Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (featuring Capcom vs. SNK 2) would be arriving on Switch and multiple other platforms this May.
Update #1 []:
EVO's 2025 lineup has now been officially confirmed by the event's organisers and it is exactly what was leaked.
Once again, the full roster includes 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 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.
In some surprise news, EVO has also announced it will run an "extended lineup" of competitions for Rivals of Aether II, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O, The King of Fighters XV, BlazBlue CentralFiction and Killer Instinct - with "more to come".
Original Story: The world's biggest fighting game tournament EVO is scheduled to announce this year's US game line up next week on 14th January, but it seems it might have already been revealed.
In other words, if you would rather find out in the official broadcast, navigate away from this page right now. Otherwise, here's the lineup which seems to have been accidentally revealed in the scheduled live-stream's thumbnail image on YouTube.
EVO 2025 Featured Games (US)
- 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
Apart from the usual heavy hitters, the new (and returning) games this year include Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. These additions have replaced King of Fighters XV and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
You can access New Age of Heroes in the recently released Switch title Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection. We'll share another update when this lineup is officially revealed next week. Evo 2025 will take place in Las Vegas between 1st - 3rd August this year.
What do you think of this year's EVO lineup? Let us know in the comments.
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Damn I clicked...and now I know....Damn why did I have to click. I ruined the surprise for myself.
Genuinely shocked MK1 made the cut given how utterly dead the game is and how thin participation in it was last year.
@Lizuka What are they gonna replace it with? Another anime fighter or another old Capcom fighter? Doesn’t matter how dead the game became it’s still a NR style 2D fighter that has its own competitive audience that don’t touch other fighters.
Capcom, Bandai, Arc Sys, SNK, French Bread, etc already got slots and EVO is now owned by Sony so zero chance Smash Ultimate makes a comeback for main slot.
So I don't know a lot about EVO but I do know they were supposed to do MVC2 in 2020 and then that event was cancelled (for more than the obvious reason IIRC) and then they just didn't do it again. Or something like that.
So it makes sense its back, now that its widely available.
@Arawn93 I personally would have loved to have seen Virtua Fighter 5 REVO.
City of the Wolves will be interesting here. Since I think the game comes out in April, this will have the least amount of time people can practice in.
This makes me more excited for City of Wolves, I'm really looking forward to that one.
Also pleasantly surprised to see MK1 still chugging along.
IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE.
No return of Smash Bros
@Axecon Not with Sony owning it.
Gonna take you for a ride.
I'm happy to see UNI2 on the list.
Man I was hoping to see Virtua Fighter 5 REVO in there. At least Evo Japan has it.
Not that it's particularly surprising but still, overall nice selection and I'm happy for those participating in and watching EVO!
MvC2, let's gooooo!
Glad to see MK1 there.
@kkslider5552000
"So I don't know a lot about EVO but I do know they were supposed to do MVC2 in 2020 and then that event was cancelled (for more than the obvious reason IIRC) and then they just didn't do it again. Or something like that."
(suggestion: explain the "obvious reason" mentioned in this message)
@MARl0 VF in America is even more dead than NR games right now. VF5 had been around for a LONG time at this point so it’s gonna have limited appeal at this point beyond the hardcore audience despite the constant porting because mostly everyone in the 3D crowd still on Tekken 8. VF5 isn’t MvC 2 or Smash Melee levels of endurance on time.
Hopefully the new VF game changes things so there is another relevant 3D fighter again outside of Tekken since VF USED to be the golden standard of 3D fighters.
So much for Sega bringing back Virtua Fighter 5 Revo. That game couldn't even be at EVO and it's also odd that Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero is also not there either. I guess people had enough of Sparking! Zero now.
@Arawn93 Oh I'm aware. I just said it's what I would've liked to see. And VF5 REVO is still a new release with decent net code, and VF6 has been announced, so there is some renewed interest in the series.
@Serpenterror It's no FighterZ so EVO wants nothing to do with it.
@Serpenterror EVO doesn’t typically do Arena Fighters in their main event lineup. They had DBFZ before, but that was a Marvel clone so that is more accepted by the community.
@Dee123 That was more on Nintendo though. They pulled out when the news broke about Sony owning EVO. Nintendo decided to host their own Smash tourney.
Bummed about KoF XV but annoyed that they’re seemingly treating CotW and KoF interchangeably as a “SNK slot” Those are 2 different games.
UPDATE: Well, this is interesting. Officially supported side tourneys! They even get screen time and medals! Good stuff!
Current fighting games are really frustrating, in the monetization area. That said, City of the Wolves looks INCREDIBLE.
The "extended lineup" is a pretty cool idea, happy for the fans of those games and looking forward to seeing what the "more to come" will end up being!
Remember when Nintendo used to let their games be at Evo? Good times.
Evo's always had sode tourneies where you can get your ass beat in Fist of the North Star or Puyo Puyo. Are these "Extended line-up" tourneies meant to be a PR Monty Shuffle so people don't notice there's no more Sailor Moon Tournament Fighter pools in the bathroom?
No Virtua Fighter 5 REVO ? its a crime!
But...Undernight in-Birth sys:Celes? Yeahhhhhhhhhh Baby!!!!!!
@Lizuka You beat me to it. Same thoughts.
@Zeebor15 @Rykdrew VF5 and the other extended lineup games are still getting some stream time and and medals, they’re just not getting grand finals stage time.
It's good to see MvC2 in this and it NOT be part of the retro line-up. Wonder which version they're using?
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