Month: July 2017

One of the things that many fans look forward to at Evo every year are the many panels that fighting game developers and publishers hold at the event. However, for those looking forward to these, we’ve got a bit of bad news. Both the Street Fighter V and King of Fighters XIV panels at Evo 2017 have been cancelled.

Capcom’s official Street Fighter twitter account announced that they had to unfortunately cancel their panel. Meanwhile, earlier this week, SNK and Atlus’s King of Fighters XIV panel was quietly cancelled. Players only noticed when the listing for the panel on the schedule was removed from the official Evo schedule. In response to this, Evo head Joey “Mr Wizard” Cuellar replied that it was SNK who cancelled the panel.

However, just because the panels were cancelled doesn’t mean both companies don’t have plans at Evo. Capcom has confirmed that, despite the cancellation, they still have a number of announcements that they plan to make at Evo. In addition to this, producer Yoshinori Ono will be at their booth on both Friday, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM and Saturday, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM.

Meanwhile, King of Fighters Producer Yasuyuki Oda and battle designer Hayato Watanabe will instead be making appearances at Arc System Works’ booth on Friday, July 14, at 4:00 PM PST.

Source: Street Fighter; MrWizard

With Dragon Ball FighterZ being a major presence at Evo 2017, many were hoping that the announced side tournaments would be streamed as part of the event. Well, hope no more as Bandai Namco have revealed the stream schedule for their highly anticipated fighter.

Bandai Namco will be streaming its four side tournaments over on their official Twitch channel, starting today at 10am PDT and running until 1pm. They will then take an hour break, before returning at 2pm for the second tournament of the day, which will run until 5pm. Saturday will follow the same schedule, so there will be plenty of DBFZ action streaming direct to you.

Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki will be making a brief appearance at the Arc System Works booth tomorrow at 12:30pm PDT, so expect a possible Future Trunks trailer to appear during that short presentation. The panel will be livestreamed via the Aksys Nation Twitch channel, which is also hosting panels with Ryo Nishitani from Arika, Katsuhiro Harada from Bandai Namco, Yasuyuki Oda and Yuji Watanabe from SNK and many more.

Aksys Nation Stream Schedule at EVO 2017 pic.twitter.com/KUq4OVAxas

— All-Aksys! (@AllAksys) July 14, 2017

If you want to hear our thoughts on the current build of Dragon Ball FighterZ, make sure to read our preview.

Sources: Bandai Namco via r/dbfz; AllAksys

As you may already know, Evo 2017 is returning to ESPN 2 this Sunday as the channel once will once again broadcast the Street Fighter V finals. However, that isn’t the only place to watch Evo 2017 on TV.  This year, Evo 2017 will also be broadcast on ESPN’s corporate sister channel Disney XD.

This Sunday, July 16, Disney XD will be showing the finals Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as part of their D|XP video game programming block. The broadcast will start at 3:00PM PDT/6:00PM EDT. D|XP have already posted a TV spot for this on their official Twitter.

Bros. Will. Be. Smashed. The 2017 EVO Super #SmashBros Finals airs LIVE Sunday July 16 at 6PM ET/3PM PT when Disney XD becomes #DXP. pic.twitter.com/Bnr9TcILem

— D|XP (@DXPofficial) July 14, 2017

Additionally, Street Fighter V finals are also scheduled to be shown on the channel at 7:00PM PDT/10:00PM EDT, the same time as ESPN2.

The choice of DisneyXD may be surprising to some. However, not only is it in the same corporate umbrella as ESPN2–both are owned by Disney–the channel has also started airing gaming related content, starting with its show Polaris Primetime and the D|XP block.

Source: DisneyXD