The first brand new Virtua Fighter title in over a decade was officially announced at The Game Awards.
The game was revealed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio via a world premiere trailer during the ceremony, featuring a splash card that simply read “Virtua Fighter is Back!” The trailer concluded with a brief display of gameplay and a promise of more details in just a matter of hours.
Check out the trailer in full below.
This will be the first new full Virtua Fighter release since Virtua Fighter 5 released in 2006. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, which is famous for its beloved Yakuza series, released a remastered version of Virtua Fighter 5 titled Final Showdown in 2021, and is working on a PC port titled Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. that’s meant to come out this year. Following the new Virtua Fighter announcement, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio also revealed a trailer for another title they’re working on in Project Century.
SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have promised more details later tonight at a Virtual Fighter Direct, scheduled for 12am EST on December 13. There’s a link to a new Virtua Fighter project page on the SEGA website attached to the game’s trailer, but the link currently doesn’t work.
Here’s the new trailer:
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Where’s Akira?
Now Koei Tecmo bring back Tomonobu Itagaki to make a new Dead Or Alive and Ninja Gaiden and Konami just throw money at Eighting for a new Bloody Roar.
Looks great hopefully this puts the garbage fighting games to bed because Tekken 8 took a massive L with overhyping their character reveal it was a garbage reveal no one wanted a character from that flop FF game. MK1 is trash and so is SF6. Hope this dominates and brings back DOA with Itagaki and Bloody Roar 5 finally happens. Harada and Ed Boon need to go. Sparking Zero was robbed at the awards.
Cool hopefully Koei Tecmo rehires Itagaki and lets him bring back Dead Or Alive and Ninja Gaiden. That’s what we need Tekken is ass, Street Fighter is one foot in the grave, and Mortal Kombat I don’t think needs to exist anymore.
Honestly it’s time the PS2 and OG Xbox era finally shine again we need games like those not the millennial trash. Bloody Roar, Dead Or Alive, and honestly I’d throw in Def Jam too or like a spiritual successor to it. Even remakes of the 3D era Mortal Kombat games would be great and new Power Stone and Gotcha Force. If Capcom can make amends with Kamiya then Koei Tecmo can kiss Itagaki’s ass and beg him to come back put the Saudi money to better use.
That is Akira curious if Fighting Vipers show up in this game too. Maybe Dead Or Alive characters I mean Virtua Fighter characters were in 5 so time to return the favor.
Hopefully it’s good. Tekken 8 fumbled so hard with their pandering to max dood no one else wanted clive just him. If they wanted to boost sales Yujiro Hanma from Baki would have printed money not f’n clive from the failure of a Final Fantasy game. Kiryu would have been fine and Harada knew fans wanted him in the last game he knew people asked for Baki characters. F Harada you owe people stuff when they paid for your product stupid!
Tecmo needs to bring back Itagaki unlike Harada he delivered and he sold millions of copies before hype he didn’t need guest characters to sell his games unlike Harada he had modes and he wasn’t some idiot who hangs out with leftists like Harada! Dead Or Alive Ultimate and 4 are still GOATED bring him back and make sure he doesn’t listen to max dood or the other idiots who spread lies about him like max’s friends matt mcmuscles the fat ass for instance who made constant videos lying on Itagaki among other shitty cringe things he does. Bring in Emery Reigns and just improve on what Dead Or Alive 4 did and if that happens Itagaki needs to make a new Ninja Gaiden too. No woke shit no DEI and don’t hang out with Ed Boon that has also made Harada dumb.
Looks great but who is Stella? Is she the daughter of Akira and Sarah? The line that she’s the “bridge” makes me wonder. I thought that was Sarah when it was revealed. Or is she Jackie’s daughter? I hope they have Kiryu as a guest him and Majima. Kiryu was done dirty in his games he should have had a biological kid honestly it would have made sense him hooking up with some hot white American blonde police or FBI agent lady and having a kid with her and that mixed race kid could be in this game.
Now Max is trying to walk his weird Tekken shut back he created the crazy Tifa In Tekken fans and now he attacking them and he’s defending Clive now. Clive is not going to help Tekken he’s such a shill. Also he’s trying to push Virtua Fighter to be a F2P game. Someone shut him up! He should have no say in games anymore. Hopefully Tekken 8 flops and hopefully Sega doesn’t listen to Max! I hate they’ve worked with him before.
Kiryu should have a son. That would be awesome in Virtua Fighter.
Hopefully Sega is bringing back other franchises Shenmue and Burning Rangers would be awesome. RGG would be great for Shenmue and I think Platinum should take Burning Rangers they’d also be a good pick for Shadow and Nights.
How far away is this from release?
Awesome! Now can we get a new Dead Or Alive from Tomonobu Itagaki, Bloody Roar from Kenji Fukuya, and honestly I say bring back Kakuto Chojin with Seiichi Ishii Microsoft should do it already he’s coming back to game development bring him back for that and also hire John Tobias to bring back Tao Feng right now they could capitalize on the upset fanbases for Tekken and Mortal Kombat respectively by having the creator of Tekken bring back his other game which has gained attention and the co-creator of Mortal Kombat bring back the game he made improving on the issues he had while keeping all the positives since it wins people over in so many other areas.