The biggest fighting tournament in the world that actually matters, has just locked in a date. EVO 2016 is back baby!

Mortal Kombat X may not be the very best 1-on-1 fighting game in existence but it has got great single player content. Will Street Fighter V follow suit?

Does South Africa have a fighting scene? If so, where are our eSports events? Perhaps it's time South African tournament hosts began paying attention to the international growth of competitive fighting genres.

You name it, 2016 has it. From action to fantasy, prepare for a bumper year of games that'll have your fingers blistered with joy.

Street Fighter V might have removed a particular animation that got a few people riled up, but don't be so quick to scream censorship.

Fighting game veterans will be able to pick up on the tweaks in Street Fighter V immediately, but newcomers might not see them at first. Thing is, Street Fighter V wants to open the gates for more newcomers to experience being on the receiving end of a HowdoyadoKen.

Over at the PlayStation Experience Capcom revealed the final character of the Street Fighter V roster, a new face who behaves and operates like a wonderfully-stereotypical B-grade Kung Fu movie villain. He’s called F.A.N.G, and he just so happens to be the self-proclaimed second-in-command of Shadaloo. Also, he can flllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

It used to be that a fighting game would release with everything that it needed in the first week. A bunch of characters, a dozen stages and maybe an extra game mode or two. And you’d be done. These days, the system is massively different. It’s very much a modular sense of development, with game characters and stages being inserted into a fisticuffs simulator after launch. But Street Fighter V wants to change that.