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A Famitsu interview (December 20,2024) of Riichiro Yamada, producer of NEW VIRTUA FIGHTER, and Masayoshi Yokoyama, Director of RGG. The interview goes into details leading to NEW VIRTUA FIGHTER Project and their ambition for the new game.

Update available now for PS4/PS5. R.E.V.O. also has these game system changes.

@Juicebox_FGC has produced another amazing video explaining the concept of love! Namely, the notation of move commands, the HUD elements, and the basics of starting your offense in Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (and soon, R.E.V.O as well).

Christmas has come early with the announcement of Virtua Fighter R.E.V.O. to be released on Steam, running at 4K, featuring Rollback netcode, and more! Are you ready for the revolution?

Last Updated: June 20, 2024 - EVO 2024 in Las Vegas will take place July 19th to July 21st. Mech is organizing the VF5US BYOC side tournament. Exact day and time of tournament TBD. Sign up for the VF5US tournament is now available with deadline to register July 13.

While Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (aka Virtua Fighter eSports in Japan) will not be at Evo Japan, Tetsuko Yamada hosted a VF Party with a focus on the international VF community! The event took place at the BARReL in Yokohama with setups for casuals and a random 3on3 team tournament. Players representing Europe, North America, Oceania, and other parts of Asia was in attendance. Archive of additional information of the event within the thread.

Super Choya Cup 5 tournament began in the evening of April 6 and concluded early the following day. Organized by Ifixmachine (VFHayato) and taking place at Brooklyn Games and Arcade in New York, the community was able to contribute a prize pool of over $3000 to the top finishers! Top placement - 1st Place: Denkai (JA, SH) ; 2nd Place: Rodnutz (AK, PA) ; 3rd Place: Mold Monkey (EI) ; 4th Place: Juicebox (AK) ; 5th Place: Tricky (EI). Additional links to archive, bracket, etc. in the thread.

The Special Cup is a one day offline PS4 tournament for VF5US. 152 participants registered for the February 10, 2024 event with an additional 32 spots available on the day of the event. The day is not only focused on Ultimate Showdown, but participants and spectators can also play the recently released VF3TB online. There will be two streams for the event: 1) a course on VF3TB online; and 2) the VFeS (VF5US outside of Japan) Final Tournament for the top 8 players.

Update 1.51 is out for VF5US and it is mandatory for online gameplay. This update should fix the game from freezing at the VS screen that was accidentally introduced in Update 1.50 a month ago. Official patch notes from virtuafighter.jp.

A new update was released December 18, 2023 that added a feature to display advertisement and fixed various minor issues. Will update thread when more information is available.