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Sega has released details on Kakutou Shinseiki 4, the upcoming national tournament for VF5.

The tournament will take place in 3 stages:

1. Qualification Stage - to begin in arcades on December 23rd.

2. Area Knockout Stage - the qualifiers of each area will duke it out to produce the top representatives from each area to enter the next stage, starting from February 17th.

3. Final Tournament - will take place sometime in the second half of March next year. Pitting the top 48 players of Japan (Fu-do is automatically in this stage) in the final phase to be crowned the best VF5 player in the world.

Refer to the official Kakutou Shinseiki 4 site for details (in Japanese only).

The first national VF5 tournament in Japan, Otenami Haiken 5, was officially announced some days ago. If past national tournaments are anything to go by, then we can look forward to some quality movies during the preliminary rounds and live streaming of the finals! More news as it comes to hand.

Preliminaries: 20 Aug - 29 Oct 2006
Finals: 4 Nov 2006

Official site: <a href="http://www.virtuafighter.jp/ote5_all.html" target="_blank">http://www.virtuafighter.jp/ote5_all.html</a>

IMPORTANT UPDATE[/size]: Information on watching the Finals Live!

Sega of America PR:

As you may have heard, Virtua Fighter 5 on the Lindbergh arcade has recently made its debut in Japan. Very exciting stuff!

To celebrate the Lindbergh release, as well as to provide you with more awesome assets from SEGA's premiere fighting game we are going to be releasing a series of arcade movies over the next couple of months - starting today at 5:00pm - for you and your readers to enjoy. These arcade movies are intended to show fans a sampling of the gorgeous nature of the game - namely the characters and the environments... these are from the Lindbergh game but you can bet SEGA's PS 3 version will be just as amazing and gorgeous!

Virtua Fighter 5 for the PS 3 is currently under development and is slated for release next spring 2007.

Please feel free to use these new arcade movies. And as always please let me know if you have any questions and/or need further information at this point. Otherwise, enjoy!

http://segapr.segaamerica.com/

To go to the VF5 area, click Games > Virtua Fighter 5. Click on "Movies" for the clips.

SEGA Virtua Fighter PR Movies

VF Party in SoCal?
Out of towners attending?
Ice-9 vs Shang $600 Money Match?

HELL YEAH!

Full details here: SoCal VF Party July 21st, 2006!

Virtua Fighter 5 has been announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, due out in North America in Spring 2007!

Virtua Fighter 5 Announced for PS3
We'll cut to the chase: Virtua Fighter 5 is coming home, and it's coming exclusively to the PlayStation 3 in the Spring of 2007, and we couldn't be happier. -- 1up.com

E3 06: Virtua Fighter 5 to beat on PS3 exclusively
Today, Sega announced that Virtua Fighter 5 is indeed coming to a next-generation console ... but not the Xbox 360. The game will be exclusive to the PlayStation 3 when it is released in North America in Spring 2007. -- gamespot.com

E3 VF party! May 12, 2006 - SoCal

All the hype and excitement from the show plus all the players fresh from the West Coast P+G 4 = The perfect reason to throw a SoCal VF party. Dust off your mad VF4:Evolution skills and come to battle with the best SoCal has to offer. Players from outside of SoCal are welcome to attend.

1st. Yosuke (Jacky)
2nd. Kazu (Lau)
3rd. Myke (Kage)

Read the Devolucíon Results thread for a full report, brackets, player feedback, and more!

In case you've been living under a rock for the past couple of months, SoCal is hosting what looks to be the biggest VF event since Evo2k4!

The weekend of March 24-26, 2006 will see many VFers travel from far and wide to meet, gather and test their mettle in casual and tournament play.

For more information, refer to the following threads:
<ul type="square">[*]Gathering: SoCal gathering with Yosuke
[*]Tournament: SoCal Devolucion[/list]

Virtua Fighter 5 is on show at this year's AOU show. The media and public were able to see the new stages, costumes, cabinets, VF.TV and the second new character to the VF5 series, Eileen, shown above.

Although nothing ground-breaking has been revealed since the second location test, there's a new demo movie at IGN, and some new screenshots from Game Watch. Check those out!

The AOU show has also given the opportunity for western media to get a closer look at the latest build. Check out Zero-chan's VF5 Preview on 1up.com.

Virtua Fighter 5 has begun location testing in Club Sega, West Shinjuku. The official website, virtuafighter.jp has also been updated with new character portraits. This is a first time look, in high detail, how visually changed some of the characters are!

Follow the Location Test Discussion inside the forums. Once again our man on the inside, Reno, has come back with first hand impressions:

I just got back from FOUR HOURS of VF5. Hoooly crap, this game BLOWS AWAY ANY X360 GAME. My god, it easily surpasses anything else I've seen IMO. DOA4 what? Tekken 5 what? The king has returned, suffice to say.

Read the discussion thread for more!

You can also read Hands On: Virtua Fighter 5 over at ign.com. Of particular interest is some of the photos in the article, one of which showing VF.TV. Looks quite impressive, even if we'll never get to see it outside of Japan!