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92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament within the Japanese senior citizen eSports league
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/16/grandma-tekken-8-tournament-victory/

92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament within the Japanese senior citizen eSports league

It's been reported by Game Spark (via Automaton Media) that the Japanese eSports association Care recently held its 12th biannual tournament. Within this event, players competed against one another in Tekken 8.The unique thing about this tournament is ...

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December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Sagat has seemingly been stealth nerfed with the latest Street Fighter 6 update
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/16/sagat-stealth-nerfed-sf6-update/

Sagat has seemingly been stealth nerfed with the latest Street Fighter 6 update

The latest update for Street Fighter 6 is now live. Nine out of 28 characters have received adjustments, but Mai, Elena and Sagat received the longest list of changes.Unsurprisingly, Mai received a fair share of nerfs as many saw ...

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December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Producer of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls releases year-end message that promises more characters to announce in 2026
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/16/marvel-tokon-message-character-announcements/

Producer of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls releases year-end message that promises more characters to announce in 2026

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls was initially announced with eight characters — Captain America, Iron Man, Star-Lord, Storm, Ms. Marvel, Dr. Doom, Spider-Man and Ghost Rider. There are only just enough characters to avoid repeat characters between two players in this 4v4 ...

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December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Humble Bundle offers multiple Mortal Kombat and Injustice titles plus many more at ridiculous price, but the deal ends in a matter of hours
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/16/warner-bros-bundle-mk-injustice/

Humble Bundle offers multiple Mortal Kombat and Injustice titles plus many more at ridiculous price, but the deal ends in a matter of hours

Warner Bros. is going through some interesting times right now with the proposed Netflix acquisition and potential Paramount hostile takeover, but now is also a great time to pick up some of their biggest games.Humble Bundle has brought back ...

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December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Street Fighter 6 server maintenance coming tonight for new balance and feature update
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/15/street-fighter-server-update/

Street Fighter 6 server maintenance coming tonight for new balance and feature update

It's been around three months since Street Fighter 6 received a sizable update, but there's finally a new one about to drop.Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 will be undergoing server maintenance tonight, December 15, for ...

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December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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It was perplexing how these two fighting games did not have any announcements to share at The Game Awards 2025 ceremony
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/15/two-omissions-fighting-game-awards/

It was perplexing how these two fighting games did not have any announcements to share at The Game Awards 2025 ceremony

The Game Awards 2025 presentation proved to be an interesting event. For the Best Fighting Game of the year award, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves ended up winning over 2XKO, the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection ...

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December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Tekken 8 Version 2.08.01 patch notes released, server maintenance underway
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Tekken 8 Version 2.08.01 patch notes released, server maintenance underway

Tekken 8 just released Miary Zo as the final Season 2 character earlier this month, but they're already making some more changes to the game.Bandai Namco has now released the Version 2.08.01 patch notes for Tekken ...

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December 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM

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Mortal Kombat 1 December 2025 hotfix patch notes released
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Mortal Kombat 1 December 2025 hotfix patch notes released

Ed Boon recently promised that a new Mortal Kombat 1 update would soon be upon us. Fans were getting a little antsy since it's been four months since the last update.Patch notes for the December 2025 hotfix for ...

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December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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Mortal Kombat 2 movie members respond to callout from Street Fighter movie cast at The Game Awards 2025
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Mortal Kombat 2 movie members respond to callout from Street Fighter movie cast at The Game Awards 2025

The Game Awards 2025 ceremony proved to be an interesting night. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves won the Best Fighting Game of 2025 award over 2XKO, the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection and Virtua Fighter 5 ...

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December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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Battle adjustment balance change list for Street Fighter 6's December 16, 2025 update
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/14/balance-changes-street-fighter-6/

Battle adjustment balance change list for Street Fighter 6's December 16, 2025 update

Street Fighter 6 will be undergoing a maintenance period on Monday, December 15th, 2025 at 8 p.m. Pacific time, and is expected to last for four hours. A battle balance update and other changes are being implemented into the ...

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December 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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The case for Rose in Street Fighter 6 goes through K-Pop Demon Hunters and following up on a key storyline from prior game
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/14/rose-sf6-kpop-demon-hunters/

The case for Rose in Street Fighter 6 goes through K-Pop Demon Hunters and following up on a key storyline from prior game

Rose from the Street Fighter 5 character select screen is featured on both sides of the image of this story, the middle is Rumi from Netflix's K-Pop Demon Hunters. K-Pop Demon Hunters has over 236 million views and is ...

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December 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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The Blue Bomber makes his long-awaited return to gaming with the announcement of Mega Man: Dual Override
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/14/mega-man-returns-dual-override/

The Blue Bomber makes his long-awaited return to gaming with the announcement of Mega Man: Dual Override

The Game Awards 2025 presentation has come and gone. 2XKO, the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection and Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage were all nominated for Best ...

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December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Ed Boon confirms a new balance patch for Mortal Kombat 1 is incoming soon
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/14/boon-incoming-balance-patch-mk1/

Ed Boon confirms a new balance patch for Mortal Kombat 1 is incoming soon

Mortal Kombat 1: Definitive Edition was released on May 14, 2025. Like with previous NetherRealm Studios titles, this marked the end of DLC support for Mortal Kombat 1 as the development team had shifted their focus to their next project ...

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December 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Capcom Pro Tour 2025 World Warrior Finals early results
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/nov/04/cpt-world-warrior-finals-results/

Capcom Pro Tour 2025 World Warrior Finals early results

Update: This story is being actively updated with results for ongoing regions. This story has been updated with final results for 21 out of 24 regions.We're approaching the end of the year which also means that the World ...

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December 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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A.C.E 2025 early results, stream ft. Gobou, DarkNecro, Sanakan, A1r0ke, Monarch, Framework, Armperor, Llon_Nu13, Chocoservant, Cgm, Jubim and more
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/12/ace-2025-results/

A.C.E 2025 early results, stream ft. Gobou, DarkNecro, Sanakan, A1r0ke, Monarch, Framework, Armperor, Llon_Nu13, Chocoservant, Cgm, Jubim and more

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December 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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Kirby Air Riders development team to be disbanded soon according to Masahiro Sakurai
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/13/air-riders-disband-masahiro-sakurai/

Kirby Air Riders development team to be disbanded soon according to Masahiro Sakurai

It would seem that patch 1.2.0 for Kirby Air Riders has begun its distribution process. This update fixed some issues involving certain events while also applying a few balance adjustments.However, Masahiro Sakurai took this as an opportunity ...

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December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Invincible Vs reveals new details about original character Ella Mental
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/13/invincible-vs-details-ella-mental/

Invincible Vs reveals new details about original character Ella Mental

During The Game Awards 2025 ceremony, Skybound Games and Quarter Up announced Ella Mental as the newest fighter for Invincible Vs. Of course, Invincible fans won't recognize Ella Mental since she is an original character developed by Invincible creators ...

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December 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM

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Street Fighter League Pro-JP 2025 live stream ft. Leshar, Gachikun, Kawano, Pugera, YHC-Mochi, Fuudo, Momochi, Tokido, Go1, Bonchan, Momochi and more
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/aug/28/street-fighter-league-japan-results/

Street Fighter League Pro-JP 2025 live stream ft. Leshar, Gachikun, Kawano, Pugera, YHC-Mochi, Fuudo, Momochi, Tokido, Go1, Bonchan, Momochi and more

Update: This story has been updated with full results for all 20 days of the group stage. It is currently being updated with day 1 results for the playoffs stage.The Japanese Street Fighter League is kicking off again this ...

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December 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM

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Tournament organizers banned for collusion from Tekken World Tour by Bandai Namco
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/12/organizers-banned-tekken-tour/

Tournament organizers banned for collusion from Tekken World Tour by Bandai Namco

The FGC is supposed to be all about community and comradery around fighting games as the name suggests, but bad actors can pop up any time to try and ruin everyone's fun.Bandai Namco announced they are banning some ...

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December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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One of the most absurd fighting games ever made is going to be at Evo Japan 2026 and I can't wait to see it on the big stage
https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2025/dec/12/evo-hokuto-no-ken/