Avenue Fighter 6 (opens in new tab) is lower than two months away, kicking off the subsequent technology of superior preventing video games. Capcom nonetheless has some reveals below its belt earlier than the large launch, with a showcase broadcasting on the most important day of the yr: 4/20. Oh, and Lil Wayne is internet hosting it for some cause.
It is the ultimate showcase earlier than Avenue Fighter 6’s June 2 launch date, providing round half-hour of information from Lil Tunechi himself, plus some builders. We’ll be getting new particulars on the sport’s World Tour, Combating Floor and Battle Hubs mode, with the YouTube stream promising “large information on the finish of the present.”
Lil Wayne will host the #SF6Showcase on April 20 at 3:00PM PT!Co-stream on Twitch to look at the 30-minute present together with your neighborhood.? https://t.co/Wy2eNkQdPN pic.twitter.com/MAOe0siMSFApril 12, 2023
It is not the primary time Weezy’s labored with Capcom on some Avenue Fighter-related endeavours. The rapper co-headlined a tour with Drake again in 2014 totally themed across the preventing recreation. It even had the backing of Capcom, with the developer offering assist and a few rad Avenue Fighter-inspired graphics for the 2.
It will be attention-grabbing to see what information Capcom nonetheless has left to disclose. We all know a good quantity at this level—the developer’s locked in its launch roster and we have had two closed betas to check out a handful of characters and tinker round with its character creator. There are rumours we’ll be handled to an open beta after a Japanese streamer casually dropped (opens in new tab) that one can be occurring someday in April.
No matter information is coming our manner, Avenue Fighter 6 is undoubtedly gonna be a banger. I’ve a sense the sport’s World Tour mode particularly shall be an enormous gateway to lastly get folks away from the button-mashing life-style into actually appreciating what preventing video games have to supply. What little I performed of it within the closed beta was extremely promising, and is at present my most anticipated recreation of 2023.
The ultimate Avenue Fighter 6 showcase is broadcasting on April 20 at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET / 11 PM BST. You may catch it on YouTube (opens in new tab)or over on Twitch. (opens in new tab)