Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Gets $2.5 Million Prize Pool Tournament
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- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves gets a $2.5 million prize pool tournament happening late 2025 in the United States.
- The winner will take home $1.5 million, which is the largest one in fighting game history.
- SNK has not provided any information regarding which tournaments are going to be the qualifiers for the championship.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will be included in this year’s SNK Championship, and will feature a prize pool of $2.5 million. The first-place player will take home $1.5 million of that, which is the highest amount of money a fighting game player will receive to date.
Fighting game tournaments are notorious for their small prize pools compared to big esports games such as Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2. However, it seems that publishers and developers are trying to fix that by increasing the prize pools of their tournaments.
Capcom Cup has recently increased its prize pool to more than a million dollars. The recent Capcom Cup 11 tournament featured a prize pool of $1.2 million. The winner of that tournament, Kakeru, took home $1 million of that, leaving the rest—$200,000—to share.
While this announcement has piqued the interest of multiple fighting game players, SNK has not provided any information regarding which tournaments are going to be the qualifiers for the championship. However, they did announce that the SNK Championship will happen late 2025 in the U.S.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves was released on April 24, 2025, for the PC, PlayStation 4 & 5, and Xbox Series X|S. It was received favorably by reviewers, according to Metacritic.
