Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls (PS5) News Articles
Thursday20th Nov 2025
News Check Those Inboxes! Marvel Tokon PS5 Beta Invites Are Being Sent Now
Marvelous news
Desperate to try out uber-promising PS5 fighter Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls? Well, there’s good news: the first wave of beta invites for the title’s second closed test are being sent out right now. Anecdotally, we’re seeing a lot of people receiving invites on social media, so it looks like this is going to be a much bigger...
Tuesday11th Nov 2025
News No New Characters Revealed for Marvel Tokon, PS5 Beta Returns in December
X-Mansion added as new stage
An uninterrupted Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls beta will get underway from 5th December, and will run for 72 hours without any breaks or pauses. If you participated in the previous beta, then you’ll be eligible to play this one as well. Similarly, if you registered and were unsuccessful last time, you may be selected...
News 'It's Been a Dream': Marvel Boss Raves About PS5 Fighter's ArcSys and PlayStation Team-Up
Fighting goals
Marvel Games' general manager, Haluk Mentes, has shared his thoughts on the upcoming fighting game from Sony and Arc System Works, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. In an interview with Game Informer, Mentes only has glowing comments for the collaboration between his team and the aforementioned publisher and developer. "Others have said...
Friday26th Sep 2025
News Maybe We'll Get Character Reveals at Marvel Tokon's Tokyo Game Show Presentation
It's got to happen some day
Since the announcement of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls back in June, we've yet to see any additional characters revealed for the game. We know about eight characters so far, all of whom were shown off in the amazing reveal trailer. While there have been several good opportunities for Sony and Arc System Works to show...
Thursday25th Sep 2025
News Here's Your First Look at Spider-Man and Ghost Rider Gameplay in Marvel Tokon
Playable at Tokyo Game Show
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls has unveiled eight characters so far, but only six have been shown off in detail beyond the reveal trailer. That's now changing, however, as both Spider-Man and Ghost Rider are playable in the latest build of the game, playable at this year's Tokyo Game Show. Some footage of the characters...
Thursday4th Sep 2025
News Sony Scraps Gameplay Restrictions for Marvel Tokon's PS5 Beta
Share freely
Sony will not stop Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls players from sharing their footage online when the beta goes live later this week. As we already reported, the platform holder has been sending out invites to the test, but previous communication mentioned that participants were prohibited from uploading footage online. This is a...
Wednesday3rd Sep 2025
News Check Your Inbox! Beta Codes for PS5's Promising Superhero Fighter Are Being Sent Out
The moment of truth
If you’re part of PS5’s official beta programme, or specifically registered your interest in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, you may want to check your inbox now. Go on, you’re not being rude – we’ll wait. Did you get in? Well, if you already received an email then you’ll have your download code and time slot – but...
Wednesday6th Aug 2025
News Marvel Tokon Will Be Supported into PS6 Generation and Beyond
"We plan to keep making the best experience ever"
Arc System Works is aiming to keep uber-exciting PS5 brawler Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls alive for at least 10 years, meaning it’ll almost certainly be supported into the PS6 generation and beyond. Speaking on stage at Evo this weekend, producer Takeshi Yamanaka said, as translated by PS...
Sunday3rd Aug 2025
News Sony's Stunning Fighter Marvel Tokon Grabs Closed Beta Exclusively on PS5, Sign Up Now
Assembles in September
The potential world-beater that is Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls will get a closed beta next month, exclusively on PS5 (the game itself is also coming to PC). The beta will take place over just a couple of days, between the 5th and 7th September. It looks like this'll be the same build as the version that's currently playable...
Saturday2nd Aug 2025
News Watch Pro Players Get to Grips with Marvel Tokon in Unedited PS5 Gameplay
It's going down
Well, here’s what we’ve all been waiting for: unedited, uninterrupted Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls gameplay. This footage features pro players Shinkensou and Justin Wong, the latter of which is fairly famous for his Marvel vs. Capcom chops. There’s an element of both players getting to grips with the game in this video –...
Friday1st Aug 2025
News Here Are the Command Lists for Every Marvel Tokon Character on PS5, PC So Far
Get to grips
Do you remember the old days of greasy arcade cabinets with printed command lists on them? Well, how about something less sticky but no less exciting for Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls? Ahead of its playable debut at Evo this weekend – and in the aftermath of Arc System Works’ awesome gameplay breakdown earlier this week – we now...
Thursday31st Jul 2025
News Sony Fighter Marvel Tokon Gets In-Depth Gameplay Video, Loads of New PS5 Footage
Tokon me
PlayStation and Arc System Works have released an in-depth gameplay overview for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, giving us our best look at the game yet. Clocking in at just under 12 minutes in length, this is just what the doctor (Doom) ordered. It's described as a 'Beginner's Guide', but given that the mechanical side of the title has been...
Tuesday29th Jul 2025
News In Case You Missed It, Here's Some New Marvel Tokon PS5 Gameplay Ahead of Evo
It's looking so freakin' good
This week, Sony announced its first officially licensed PS5 arcade stick will be named FlexStrike, and will be playable at Evo later this week. While we covered the new peripheral in its entirety already, those of you who didn’t watch the trailer may have missed out on the fact that it includes new Marvel Tokon:
Wednesday23rd Jul 2025
News Marvel Tokon Could Have Up to 35 Characters, Fans Hypothesise
So many fighting souls
A screenshot of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ character select screen has left fans trying to deduce the size of the PS5 and PC release’s roster. After announcing the four-on-four brawler will be playable at Evo next month, Sony released a new screenshot showing the game’s menus. At the moment, only six superheroes can...
Tuesday22nd Jul 2025
News Sony's Stunning PS5 Fighter Marvel Tokon Will Be Playable for the First Time at Evo 2025
Avengers assemble
In news that should give fighting game fans even more reason to be hyped for this year's Evo, PlayStation has confirmed that Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls will be playable at the event. Developed by the genre masters at Arc System Works and first revealed during June's State of Play, Marvel Tokon is a full-on team-based brawler...
Tuesday15th Jul 2025
Rumour New Guilty Gear Game Gets Cancelled
No, not Roman Cancelled
A new Guilty Gear game has reportedly been cancelled at Arc System Works. This is according to an exclusive article from Insider Gaming, which unfortunately doesn't give us a whole lot to go on. It suggests that the project wasn't finished, but it's unclear how long the Japanese developer had been working on it. Guilty Gear...
Monday23rd Jun 2025
News Marvel Tokon and 'Completely New Titles' to Star in Surprise Arc System Works Showcase
Let's rock
Arc System Works, the supremely talented Japanese developer behind fighting games like Guilty Gear and the recently announced Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, has announced a surprise showcase. Kicking off later this week on the 27th June at 10am Japan time / 2am BST / 26th June at 6pm Pacific, the event is promising a lot of potential...
Thursday5th Jun 2025
News 'Why Isn't PlayStation in This Space?' Sony Pondered Before Greenlighting Marvel Fighter
A very good question
Since it acquired co-ownership of fighting game tournament EVO, Sony has been heads down on brawlers like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8. The manufacturer co-markets practically every title that releases in the space, and it’s become the de facto format for titles in the genre. But, aside from perhaps the PS3 and PS Vita’s...
News Here's Fighting Game Fan Maximilian Dood's Viral Reaction to PS5, PC's New Marvel Fighter
Safe to say he liked that
YouTuber Maximilian Dood is well known for his love of fighting games – specifically the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise. You may recall he absolutely lost his mind when Capcom announced its PS4 compilation about a year ago, and he’s even self-funded a graphical patch for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, which was a notoriously...
Wednesday4th Jun 2025
News PlayStation Gets Guilty Gear Dev to Make Insane Marvel Fighting Game for PS5
When's Mahvel?
Well, who saw this one coming? The fighting game masters at Japanese developer Arc System Works have been brought in to make a new Marvel brawler — and it's being published by Sony under the PlayStation Studios umbrella. Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is coming to both PS5 and PC in 2026 — but we've already been given a good eyeful...
