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Enterbrain has released the new mook for Virtua Fighter 5 in Japan today (12/26/2006) named Virtua Fighter 5 Black Book -Keep it MORAL-.

The book is based on the newly released Version B and will include frame data. A DVD is also included featuring the very top players of Japan for each character.

You can order this book from various Japanese book retailers by referring to the ISBN 4-7577-3118-3.

Discuss the VF5 Black Book on the VFDC forums.

WEEK LONG VIRTUA FIGHTER 5 COVER STORY

Thanks to our man Milky, 1up has a week long feature on Virtua Fighter 5! Check out the 1up page for interviews with AM2, profiles of your favorite VF characters, a history of the VF franchise, and more! Just follow the link above.

Discuss the 1up VF5 Cover Story on the VFDC forums.

SEGA ANNOUNCES VIRTUA FIGHTER 5 FOR XBOX 360

Sega has officially announced the release of Virtua Fighter 5 for the XBOX 360 in late summer 2007. This news definitely caught many of us by surprise. Read the official press release above and discuss the VF5 announcement on XBOX 360 on the VFDC forums.

Sega has announced the release date of Virtua Fighter 5 for Playstation 3 to be February 20th, 2007.

The game will be based on Version B, but no word yet if the Virtua Stick High Grade will be released in the US.

Discuss the PS3 release date of VF5 on the VFDC forums.

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.