Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is getting another balance update in Japanese arcades.

Sega is shilling their first pack of Virtua Fighter 5 content and it’s a bundle of character accessories for 300 Microsoft Points ($3.75). The move is unsurprising because it’s the easiest way to make some extra money. Before we go into the obligatory tearing on microtransactions avenue Sega *could* make good use of the pay-to-play [...]

Late at night Sega released a demo of the Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter 5. The 674 MB download includes four characters: Akira, Sarah, El Blaze, and Eileen. Try them out against a friend or the computer for a limited number of matches. Think of the demo as early training for the online matches [...]

Sega sent over an e-mail with the official release date for Virtua Fighter 5, October 30. One of the main strong points of the Xbox 360 version is it has online multiplayer via Xbox Live. If your skills aren’t up to par you can download and watch arcade matches from the top players on the [...]

From March 30-April 1st the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim is going to be the home of a BYOC (bring your own computer) LAN party sponsored by Buy.com. At the event players can enter tournaments for the following games for $25 per person. Here are what games players can enter tournaments for:   Counter-Strike 1.6 Gears [...]

  Sega of America is giving gamers a break on the price of Virtua Fighter 5 if you pre-order the game at Gamestop before February 20. Considering the price of games has gone up saving $5 isn’t too bad of a deal, if you didn’t look at the Japanese bonus. If you pre-order the game [...]

Next month Virtua Fighter 5 is going to be released for the Playstation 3. Similar to Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution there is going to be a quest mode where you dominate the arcade scene in a virtual town. These ten pictures come straight from the Playstation 3 game and they look pretty good. Sega announced [...]

It looked like Virtua Fighter 5 might be one of the exclusive titles to get fans of the series to run out and buy a Playstation 3. However, Sega’s technical fighter is also coming to the Xbox 360 in late summer 2007. Jeff Bell, corporate vice president of global marketing at Microsoft said, “It’s a [...]

  Sega announced that they will release Virtua Fighter 5 in Japan on February 8, 2007. If you pre-order the game you get an added bonus, a reprint of Virtua Fighter: 10th Anniversary for the PS2, which is a port of the original arcade game. Coming out a week after the game is out in [...]