It’s official: Marvel vs Capcom 2 is back on the big stage at the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) this year, following its re-release as part of the Marvel vs Capcom: Fighting Collection last year. The classic crossover fighter joins a lineup of eight main games (as usual) and, as a new addition for Evo 2025, an “extended lineup” of smaller but still official tournaments.
The main games at Evo 2025 are:
- Street Fighter 6
- Tekken 8
- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Guilty Gear Strive
- Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
- Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel vs Capcom 2
And the extended lineup so far (with three more games to be announced later):
- Rivals of Aether 2
- Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
- The King of Fighters XV
- Blazblue Centralfiction
- Killer Instinct
Evo 2025 will take place from August 1 to 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s event is making some other changes—most notably, a return to a Top 8 for each featured game, rather than last year’s Top 6. There’ll also be some improvements to spectator seating capacity in the arena, and a bigger free-to-play arcade for attendees. Evo also comes with lots of fighting game-related announcements from publishers, so expect to see reveals and teaser for new characters and, hopefully, new games.
Evo is typically the biggest fighting game tournament of the year, with an open format (anyone can enter, without having to go through a qualifier process) that attracts the best players from around the world. Last year’s event set a new record with over 10,000 unique entrants across all games, although 2023’s record of 7,083 competitors for a single game (Street Fighter 6) remains unbroken.
