Video Games

New mainline Virtua Fighter game announced at The Game Awards 2024, the first of its kind since 2006

SEGA is finally opening a new chapter

Marco Wutz

Sega

Sega announced a new Virtua Fighter game and no, it’s not yet another version of Virtua Fighter 5. The publisher revealed the first new mainline entry into the iconic series since 2006, and  Virtua Fighter 6 will lead the franchise into a new chapter in 2025 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Announced at The Game Awards 2024, VF6 will carry on a long legacy of fighting games that have shaped their genre like few other series have been able to. You can get your first taste of VF6 later on December 13, 2024, when Sega hosts a full direct highlighting what to expect.

Virtua Fighter goes all the way back to 1993, when the first game debuted in arcades in Japan and led to a revolution in 3D fighting game visuals – a feat repeated with its successor a year later, which then found its way from arcades onto home consoles like the SEGA Genesis and PC.

SEGA kept up a relatively steady stream of releases from the series until VF5 in 2006. Since then, the publisher has pumped out different versions of VF5 as well as mobile spin-offs – a version for PC is set to be released in what remains of 2024.

Published
Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

Home/News