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While Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (aka Virtua Fighter eSports in Japan) will not be at Evo Japan, Tetsuko Yamada will be hosting a VF Party with a focus on the international VF community! The event takes place at the BARReL in Yokohama on April 29th. The event will have setups for casuals with the highlight of the event being a random 3on3 team tournament. Players representing Europe, North America, Oceania, and other parts of Asia will be in attendance.

Super Choya Cup 5 tournament began in the evening of April 6 and concluded early the following day. Organized by Ifixmachine (VFHayato) and taking place at Brooklyn Games and Arcade in New York, the community was able to contribute a prize pool of over $3000 to the top finishers! Top placement - 1st Place: Denkai (JA, SH) ; 2nd Place: Rodnutz (AK, PA) ; 3rd Place: Mold Monkey (EI) ; 4th Place: Juicebox (AK) ; 5th Place: Tricky (EI). Additional links to archive, bracket, etc. in the thread.

The Special Cup is a one day offline PS4 tournament for VF5US. 152 participants registered for the February 10, 2024 event with an additional 32 spots available on the day of the event. The day is not only focused on Ultimate Showdown, but participants and spectators can also play the recently released VF3TB online. There will be two streams for the event: 1) a course on VF3TB online; and 2) the VFeS (VF5US outside of Japan) Final Tournament for the top 8 players.

Update 1.51 is out for VF5US and it is mandatory for online gameplay. This update should fix the game from freezing at the VS screen that was accidentally introduced in Update 1.50 a month ago. Official patch notes from virtuafighter.jp.

A new update was released December 18, 2023 that added a feature to display advertisement and fixed various minor issues. Will update thread when more information is available.

Global Showdown is an international community-organized event by Blessy (Europe), Harponeer (America), and Tetsuko Yamada (Japan) to gather VF players around the world for a 2-day event. After multiple setbacks, the event finally took place on December 9-10 at LevelTap in Liverpool, UK. On day 1, players participated in a single elimination tournament and team battle exhibition. The main event, a double elimination tournament, took place on day 2, with Shiwa winning it all!

According to Chizai Watch--a site that tracks patents, designs, and trademarks applications from the Japan Patent Office--SEGA applied for the trademark VF3tb online.NET on November 14, 2023. As for what service or goods the logo is intended for: home use; video game console; mobile; computer; are some of the terms listed.

It has been thirty years since the worldwide release of Virtua Fighter. When did you started your journey with VF? Have a memorable story with the game or the community? Let us celebrate the 30 years of Virtua FIghter reminiscing the good times and hoping for more good memories to come! Everyday, VFDC will also be giving away VF5US DLCs or VF5US game+DLC bundles. Check out the thread for more details.

In the gameplay trailer for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, it was revealed that Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle will be playable within the game (4 min 37 sec mark). Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is releasing on January 26, 2024 - Akai

VF5US is an official tournament of Combo Breaker 2023. Since VF5US was released, it is the largest offline VF5US tournament in the United States with more than 60 players registered for the tournament. The Top 16 will be streamed on Sunday, May 28th. Stream info and brackets are listed in this post.