Sega Wants Virtua Fighter Crossroads To Be More Than Just Another Fighting Game
Legendary IP vs. Sega’s most successful studio.
There is no shortage of remakes and sequels at Summer Game Fest 2026, but Sega is tasking RGG Studio with reinvigorating the company's biggest fighting series. Instead of simply making Virtua Fighter 6 (and appealing to its devoted but niche fanbase), the studio's ambitions are much bigger.
With Virtua Fighter Crossroads, the studio is working on a completely new, cinematic narrative fighting game, aimed at bridging the gap between fighting games (and where previous VF games exist) and the story-driven experiences of series like Yazuka and Like a Dragon, not to mention the incoming Stranger Than Heaven, also being developed at the same time at RGG Studios.
Set in the fictional city of Vilasapara in Southeast Asia, Crossroadsisn't an outright reboot of Sega's biggest fighting series. Instead, several characters from the Virtua Fighter series will pop up within the game....
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