EVO Japan 2024】Cygames, Namco Bandai Entertainment, Nishitani's booth report!

Event

EVO Japan 2024 presented by ROHTO (EVO Japan 2024), one of the largest fighting game festivals in Japan, was held from April 27 (Friday) to 29 (Monday), 2024. This time, we will report on the booths of Cygames, Bandai Namco Entertainment (hereafter referred to as "BANNAM"), and Nishitani!








Cygames Booth

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Cygames is developing "Granblue Fantasy Versus -Rising-", which has been selected as the main tournament title for EVO Japan 2024 and EVO 2024.

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The booth sold phone shoulders, stickers, and mobile batteries, as well as apparel items such as caps and T-shirts.

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In addition, the Cygames booth also offered a preview of Beatrix, an additional character scheduled to be released in late May 2024.

The game will be on sale on the PC gaming platform Steam from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 2:00 a.m. until Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 2:00 a.m. Buy GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink and Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising on Steam at the same time and get 15% off. If you only own one of the two titles, you are also eligible for the discount!



BANNAM Booth

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Speaking of BANNAM, Tekken 8, the latest in the Tekken series after a 9 year absence, will be at the EVO Japan 2024 finals! At the EVO Japan 2024 finals, there was also a surprise announcement of the second playable character for Season 1, Lydia Sobieska.

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At the booth, a variety of Tekken-related merchandise was on sale, including stickers, acrylic stands, fans, and T-shirts.

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S.H.Figuarts and "Tekken 8" figures were also on display. Jin Kazama will be released in June 2024, and Kazuya Mishima in July 2024.

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This is a collaboration watch between the fashion watch brand "ANGEL CLOVER" and "Tekken 8! The watch will be released in the summer of 2024, although little information has been revealed on the special collaboration page.





Mr. Nishitani's booth


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Nishitani-san, the creator of "Final Fight" and "Street Fighter II" and president of Arica Co. On the first and second days of EVO Japan 2024, Tekken Project Chief Director Katsuhiro Harada held a talk show in collaboration with his YouTube channel " Harada's Bar.


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The two-day fighting game talk show featured Taisuke Ishiwata from Arc System Works, Yasuyuki Oda from SNK, EVO director MarkMan, and Kohei Ikeda from Namco Bandai Studios, Inc.



The entire two-day event was streamed on the "Harada 's Bar " YouTube channel! You can still watch the archived videos.


What about the collaboration between Guilty Gear and Ganryu (Tekken)? Is Mr. Mihara a bad guy? ", "What will happen to the gaming world in the future? " and much more that you can only hear here!



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