Since the release of Street Fighter V in 2016 the game has received many criticisms specifically from its hardcore competitive fans. The complaints are mostly due to the game having performances for its online matches. Low quality online systems have been very common amongst fighting games and has been something that fans have complained about for years. Very few game companies go out of their way to create a brand new net code to improve their game’s online system, mostly to due to the fact that creating a new net code from the ground up requires a lot of time and resources.

Now however it seems that Capcom has finally decided to take the act after many years of complaints from their fans with the new rerelease of Street Fighter V: Champion Edition.

Geoff Keighly, who is famously known through out the video game industry for creating the video games award show has decided for the first time ever to skip E3 this year.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is a premier trade event for electronic companies. For many years video game companies has taken advantage of this event for advertisement for their products. However many people suspect that E3 has begun to change for the worse and is slowly dying off. This year will mark the second time that Sony has skipped this event, and it appears that Geoff will be skipping it as well. His reasons seem to stem from the recent security concerns at E3.

On February 3, Platinum announced that they will be to doing a Kickstarter to remaster The Wonderful 101 on the current generation consoles. They claim that their reasoning for doing this is to not only bring the game to a wider audience but also to help ensure their goal from them to one day publish their own IPs from their studio.

On February 4, the biggest fighting game tournament known as Evo announced it’s fighting game line up this year. This year Evo is set to take place at July 31 to August 2 and with it a large set of fighting game tournaments. Its line up consist of games such as Super Smash Bros, Dragon Ball Fighterz, Street Fighter V, Samurai Showdown, Grand Blue Fantasy Versus, Tekken 7, Soulcalibur VI, UNIB, and lastly Marvel vs Capcom 2.

Evo is bringing back Marvel vs Capcom 2 in its line up for the games 20 anniversary. It is a very popular fighting game that has made its presence at Evo for many years. Now it has returned as a eight man tournament with four of the contestants being previous Evo champions.

On January 22 it was recently revealed by the Kingdom Hearts series director Tetsuya Nomura, that the Kingdom Hearts franchise now has two teams working on titles for the series. Originally the Kingdom hearts series had one team working on games, now two more have been created. One of which already has a game coming “sooner than we think” according to the director.

The list of game delays grows ever longer, this time with Dying Light 2. On January 20, it was revealed by the developers at TechLand that Dying Light 2 was push back from their original spring 2020 release window. But unlike Final Fantasy VII Remake and Cyberpunk, this game has no new release date and has seemingly been delayed indefinitely. The developers reasoning behind this decision was so that would have more time to make the closer to their vision.

On January 16 it was confirmed by CD Projekt Red that Cyberpunk will be pushed back from April to September. According to the official twitter page of Cyberpunk that the reasoning of this delay is due to the development team needing more time to polish as well as more time to work on certain areas of the game.

Devil May Cry 3 is action game made by Capcom and was released in 2005 for the PS2. Since then it has been ported to the current generation consoles and for PC because of how beloved the game is by fans. Last year it was announced that the title would be coming to the Nintendo Switch. On January 16th it was confirmed that style switching was confirmed to be added to the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

Style switching was a gameplay feature that was added in the later installments of the series but was never added in the original version of Devil May Cry 3. It allows the player to change Dante’s combat style with a push of a button, in the original version of the game players had to change their combat style through a menu system that could only be accessed outside of combat. Now players can enjoy this feature in Devil May Cry 3 as well witch releases for the Nintendo Switch on February 20th.

On January 16th it was revealed that Byleth, the main protagonist form Fire Emblem: Three Houses, will be the fifth and final character added in the Smash Ultimate DLC fighters pass. Just like the other characters, Byleth will come with his own set of music form Three Houses and his own fighting stage. The character is expected to release on January 28th.

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake was originally scheduled to release on March 3rd 2020. However, just yesterday it was it announced that by the official Final Fantasy VII Remake twitter account that the game will be post pone to April 10th. The game’s producer, Yoshinori Kitase, left a message to the fans that the delay is due to the development team needing more time to polish the game.