The Summer Game Fest of fighting games had tons of reveals — here's what we learned

From Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game to Tekken, we're rounding up everything being announced at Evo 2026 The fighting game tournament Evo 2026 took place in Las Vegas this weekend. While it mostly focused on tournaments for titles like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, Evo also continually serves as a Summer Game Fest of sorts for fighting game announcements each year. 2026 proved to be no different, as it was the backdrop for exciting Rivals of Aether 2, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, Tekken 8, and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls announcements. As announcements were interspersed between matches and multiple Evo streams ran concurrently, you might have had trouble keeping track of everything revealed at Evo. To help, we've rounded up and chronologically listed every major fighting game reveal from Evo 2026. Koei Tecmo released Dead or Alive 6 Last Round on June 25 and was already teasing the first DLC fighter at Evo. It’s a new character named Minato, and she’ll be added to the game sometime this summer. The Evo teaser does not show the fighter in action, just spotlighting the Miyabi stage as Minato talks to NiCO in the background. Aether Studios showed up to Evo with a roadmap for