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Its that time again! Proclaimed VF3tb World Champion Gorilla Kagesuke is hosting the second World Cup for Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle at the famous Takadanobaba Mikado Game Center in Tokyo. Entrants are limited to 48 players and the promise of hype matches will surely be delivered, if the first World Cup was any indication!

Is this the closest we'll get to seeing Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown running on PC? Check out the footage below!

For those unaware, it sucks trying to find VF merch. Especially shirts. (5 year throwback...) If you blinked, you probably missed COSPA's run of VF shirts from 2015 which notably did not suck.

The soundtracks to every Virtua Fighter arcade game (except Kids!) have been added to Spotify -- Virtua Fighter Official Sound.

"Going to school was very boring, but practicing VF2 every day made him endure daily life, for a year he trained every day to finally beat his cousin". Courtesy of this translation by sonigo of a recent Denfami Interview with Tokido, you can't help but think that VF may have shaped Tokido into the fighter he is today, albeit in another fighting game.

A couple of week's back, Maximilian's YoVideogames channel on Twitch was streaming Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. The two things that struck me were the number of people who were watching live (over 4K), and the glowing praise Maximilian had for VF in general, and it's not often VF5FS gets that kind of exposure! So if you don't mind watching a some guys rumble their way through VF5FS while having a blast, then check out the Youtube archive below. It might even remind you of your first time playing?

The Australian Virtua Fighter community is very proud to announce that VICTORY ROAD will return anew in 2017! After an outstanding year of community growth and improvement in the inaugural 2016 season, the Victory Road league is returning, bigger and better than ever. Beginning in February, this time the league will be Inter-State, being run in NSW, Victoria and Queensland!

Many of you might be glad to see the back of 2016, and ready to take on 2017! But, do you know what you're getting yourself into? Happy New Year VFDC!

I still remember the first issue of Sega Saturn Magazine I ever purchased. It was the Feb 1997 edition, emblazoned with incredible cover art of Akira Yuki, and the title ‘Fighters Megamix’ in the corner. A new fighting game from AM2 was just about the most incredible thing that a Sega fan could ask for in ’97 (and in my opinion, it still is), and this was the first sighting of something that would become a very special game in Sega’s history.

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I chose Virtua Fighter and Sarah Bryant.

Hopefully choosing Virtua Fighter will help the series get more demand.