Ultimate Tournament XV | Tekken Tournament in France Held on April 26th

UPDATE: Results have now been added to this piece courtesy of Lizanias!

UTXV is this year’s installment of the dedicated Tekken tournament series of Ultimate Tournament. As like last year with getting big international competition to attend, UTXV features 4 confirmed international players such as Lil Majin from USA, El Negro Piripicho from Venezuela, Burimaru & Mattari from Japan coming to the event. That’s not all however since the registered player list for the event also has players from all over Europe registered for the event so this is certainly not one to miss. You can watch international competitor reveal trailers below and find more info on the TekkenZaibatsu page for the tournament.

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NorthWest Majors 6 | US Fighting Game Tournament in Seattle, WA on May 3 - 4

NWM 6 is Seattle’s next big fighting game tournament and has somehow managed to get Jimmy and Bronson to travel for it. They’re not the only out of state competitors coming though, Just Frame James and Inkognito are also coming to the event as detailed and introduced on the tournament’s website. More details and registration on the event can be found on the website and I’m assuming that the tournament is going to be streamed on TeamKhaos’ Twitch channel.

Republic Of Fighters #3 | Fighting Game Tournament Held on May 17 – 18 in Paris

UPDATE: Added the newly released AO teaser for the event!

ROF is a fighting game tournament being held in Paris, France next month that features TTT2 in the lineup. The tournament features cash prizes equating to 3500€ as well as international players such as Ryan Hart and Japan’s AO in confirmed attendance. If you happen to be in the region looking for the next best event to go for after UTXV, this is it. For more information on the tournament you can head to the English version of the website or contact the Tekken event manager for the event – Alhassane Stinson over here.

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Soul Calibur Lost Swords Out Today on PSN

Bandai Namco Games Community Manager J. Kartje ushers in the new free-to-play, PS3 exclusive, single player only Soul Calibur: Lost Swords game on the Playstation Blog. You should be able to find the title to download and play later today when the Playstation Network updates it's game's listings. As added incentive to try the game out, logging into the game within the first four weeks grants you a set of bonus items that you can use in-game as a special gift from the Project Soul development team. If you're looking for further information on the title, Videogames Brasil recently interviewed the project's lead producer Masaaki Hoshino on the game and describes what we can see in the game for everyone.

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Rise of Incarnates: Bandai Namco's New F2P, PC Only, 2v2, 3D Fighting Game

UPDATE: GameInformer wrote a insightful article on the game that's well worth reading. You can read it over here.

Well I guess we can now cross off one of the games Katsuhiro Harada wanted to announce this year as a game he was working on. Rise of Incarnates is as the title described, a new Free-to-play fighting game that's exclusive to the PC platform and features 2v2 battles in a 3D Plane. The announcement of the game came with details including that this new game is being made by the creators of TEKKEN, SOUL CALIBUR and Gundam EXVS Series of games. Bandai Namco have released a large batch of media out there for this game that describes and shows of more of this game which should be to see more of in the future.

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