By Tomas Franzese Updated Jun 28, 2026, 9:52 PM EDT News From Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game to Tekken, we're rounding up everything being announced at Evo 2026
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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 the next several years of Rivals of Aether 2 updates. Later this year, we can expect two new characters, two more events, and workshop support for items and characters. In 2027, Rivals of Aether 2 will hold four events, add two new fighters and two echo fighter-like “Remix Rivals,” implement eight-player matches, and give players the ability to spend currency to create custom color mixes for their outfits.
In 2028, Aether Studios finally plans to bring the fighting game to consoles with the first chapter of Rivals of Aether 2’s single-player story mode. Beyond that, it’ll continue to iterate on Steam Workshop support, add buddies into the game, and potentially bring in guest characters from other franchises.
One of the weirder announcements of this EVO is that Tekken is getting a cartoon adaptation . Tekken! Cartoon's teaser trailer features a more cutesy art style and stars chibi-like versions of Alisa Bosconovitch, Kazuya Mishima, Kuma, Paul Phoenix, and Yoshimitsu. Not much else is known about this Tekken animation at this time, but it's certainly very different from anything we've seen from this franchise before.
Gameplay Group and Paramount Games opened pre-orders for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game during EVO, ahead of its July 23 release date. The pre-order trailer mostly serves as a simple overview of the game, but reveals four of the five Year 1 Pass characters at the end: Iroh, Ty Lee, Lin Beifong, and Bolin. The fifth DLC fighter will be voted on by those who pre-order the game.
According to developers during an Evo Showcase panel, Iroh will be a counter-focused character, Ty Lee will be a rushdown character, Lin Beifong’s moveset will be built around metalbending, and Bolin will combine mechanics seen in other firebender and earthbender characters. At the end of its segment, we learned the five options players can…