A Panel Shaped Screen is a monthly column where Giada Zavarise explores how comics and videogames inspire each other. This month is all about the way fighting games handle the tricky business of adapting action comics. The marriage between action comics and fighting games is one that transcends mediums: an enthusiastic relationship based on love, mutual respect, and a shared passion for punching people in the face. Some licensed games, like Dragon Ball FighterZ, are played at a professional leve...

Fighting game championship Evo has been cancelled this year following abuse allegations against Evo co-founder and CEO Joey “MrWizard” Cuellar. Evo are ejecting him from the company and replacing him as CEO. The makers of half the games in Evo’s lineup had already pulled out of the event following the allegations, including Street Fighter gang Capcom and Mortal Kombat devs NetherRealm. Evo Online was due to run this weekend, one of the many virtual replacements for events cal...

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31001248/af02352c88b104009211a41651f84bb4edbd83c1.png Goku is about to reach a whole new level of power on Sunday! Join us on at 19:00 CEST / 13:00 EDT / 10:00 PDT to discover his powerful abilities and combos! Our hosts Damascus, Tyrant and RZA will analyze his moveset to give you the best tips before the release of the DLC on May 22. And to spice up the stream, we’ll bring the European crown into play! A special first to 7 between Sha...

Like everything else, Evo is not going ahead as usual this year. The fighting game championships will not invade a Las Vegas resort for a weekend at the end of July, with that event now cancelled and tickets getting refunded. But Evo 2020 is evolving, and will go online this summer. It surely won’t be the same but, even as a casual spectator, I’m still well up for it. (more…)

👊 Kefla adds her raw power to Dragon Ball FighterZ on 28 February. Get the FighterZ Pass 3 to unlock her 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬! Patch 1.21 implements big system changes in addition to an array of character balances sure to fire up your spirits and get right onto the battlefield again! The updated assists system will enable players to choose between three different Z Assists for each character before the fight, allowing players to create new combos and broaden their playstyles! As the battle goes on, the last...