L’EVO 2022 has just made its traditional stream of game announcements of its next edition. The biggest fighting game tournament returns to Las Vegas following editions canceled for pandemic reasonsmost not only…
The EVO 2022 returns to its basics?
EVO 2022 will be held from August 5-7, 2022 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. We note that if the takeover (in part) of the event by Sony should have no effect, everything will only be played on PlayStation 4. The absence of Smash would rather be due to Nintendo than to PlayStation according to the organizers.
A stream mainly dedicated to the physical tournament to convince players to come to Las Vegas by praising the ease of seeing different games from anywhere, the presence of real arcade terminals, and the greater space granted for community tournaments which allows you to find games that have not been selected for the line up.
Speaking of the official competition, here is the list of the nine main games of EVO 2022:
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A fairly predictable selection that includes the biggest current games of the genre as well as the latest releases. The surprises being the presence of Melty Blood (which will have free color swaps to celebrate), Skullgirl 2nd Encore which benefits from a good EVO Online last year and Granblue Fantasy Versus who has come a long way to finally have his moment of glory.
The poor Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl will not be able to represent the platform fighters instead of Smash. We also note the absence of DNF Duelit is assumed that with all the postponements of games in recent years, its release this summer was a little too risky, which makes this edition one of the few that does not have games coming out between the announcement of their presence and the EVO.
As expected, no announcement of DLC or games during this stream which mainly offered exhibition matches of great players to present each of the titles selected. Note that to avoid the usual debates, the order of the finals will be from the game with the fewest participants to the game with the most.
It will rather be necessary to wait for the competition in August and especially its finals to have news of Street Fighter 6 for example. If you are interested in travel, know that tournament registrations are already open on Smash.gga site owned by Microsoft we remind.