As long as its new owners don’t meddle with the formula, Evo France could be the first step in a brilliant new era for fighting game events

Evo – the largest fighting game tournament series – landed in Nice, France last weekend for the inaugural European wing of the eagerly expanding event. A vaporous dream for thousands of genre fanatics for untold years, navigating the Palais des Expositions felt like a major triumph for the event series, a strong first step in a new era of expansion. I walked the floor with conflicting feelings; giddiness tainted with palpable concern.

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