It appears that a big reveal of gameplay features and visuals tied to the new Virtua Fighter game is imminent. Overnight, part of what looks like an online presentation was leaked on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili, where it quickly spread like wildfire across Reddit and fighting-game discord channels.
The footage, which features four characters showing off new and old fighting techniques, gives us a glimpse of the game’s flashy visual presentation, which seems heavily inspired by recent games like Street Fighter 6. The fighting, however, remains true to Virtua Fighter’s roots of martial-arts realism, depicting some brutal-looking strikes, kicks, and grapples. The already-revealed Wolf and Stella are present in the leaked footage, but there are two faces we haven’t seen yet: a male character who seems to use a mix of Southeast Asian martial arts–with their name shown briefly as “Cielo” during a shot of the matchup screen–and what appears to be an older version of longtime Virtua Fighter favorite Pai Chan. The title is also shown in part of the screen as “Virtua Fighter Crossroads.”
Producer Riichiro Yamada and another RGG studio staff member also speak briefly about the game as the footage plays–which Gematsu has translated for the curious–giving veracity to the leak. It’s likely that we get a much bigger look at the upcoming game either during June’s State of Play presentation, Summer Games Fest, or EVO 2026. While the leak is unfortunate, it does offer a tantalizing glimpse into a longer showcase of the game coming in the near future that will likely tell us more about game modes, controls, and the narrative element.