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Metro
04-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Marvel Tōkon beta sign-ups aren't working but there's a very easy fix
As fans sign up for the Marvel Tōkon beta, a supposed character leak is being dismissed as an AI generated typo. Fighting game tournament Evo 2025 took place over the weekend and anyone who attended was able to test out Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the new PlayStation exclusive fighting game in the works at Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works. If you were hyped by the announcement trailer in June, and feeling mighty jealous that others got to play it early, you'll be happy to know that a closed PlayStation 5 beta was announced at Evo (there'll be no PC beta unfortunately) and will arrive in just a month's time. Registration is open on the PlayStation website, but some people seemingly aren't able to register due to an 'invalid link.' Fortunately, though there is a workaround for the problem. Registering for the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta is incredibly easy. All you need to do is follow this link and complete a registration form. This doesn't automatically guarantee entry to the beta, but it does mean there's a chance you'll receive an invitation from Sony via email. So, be sure to keep an eye on your inbox (and junk folder) as the start date approaches. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. But what do you do if you click to register and you're met with the dreaded 'invalid link' message? We tried registering ourselves and were told 'The link has already been used or has expired. You won't be added as a participant for this beta.' What this means is that the link Sony's directing people to isn't for the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta specifically, but the general PlayStation Beta Program. Sony opened this programme up to PlayStation owners back in March and it basically serves as a catch-all for PlayStation 5 beta tests. So, if you previously signed up for the programme, you've already got a shot at participating in the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls. If you are receiving an 'Invalid Link' error when signing up for the Closed Beta, it is because you've previously signed up for the PlayStation Beta program and you're all set for Closed Beta registration. 🤜🤛 — MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls ➡️ EVO 2025 (@MARVELTokon) August 3, 2025 The Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta is scheduled to run from Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 7. Exact start and end times have not been confirmed but it's three days long, so you should have plenty of time to get a go. While eight characters were announced for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls during its reveal trailer, the beta will only feature six of them: Captain America Iron Man Star-Lord Ms Marvel Storm Doctor Doom Speaking of characters, word recently spread that Doctor Strange's inclusion has been leaked, as he was mentioned in the video description for IGN's upload of the beta announcement. More Trending 'Players can take a dip into the wider Marvel Universe to duke it out in intense fighting battles with Marvel's biggest heroes including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Storm, Doctor Doom, and more, in an upcoming closed beta for the game,' it read. However, this was clearly a mistake on IGN's part, since the description implies both Strange and Spider-Man will be playable in the beta. And while the latter is confirmed to be in the game, neither are present in the beta's announcement trailer. What's more, IGN has since updated the video description to remove any mention of Strange and Spider-Man. As for how this mistake was made, the running theory among fans on Reddit is that the description was AI generated. Although, as one fan points out, Strange could very likely be included in the final roster regardless. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: The best Marvel superhero video games you can play right now MORE: Neil Patrick Harris is Deadpool in new Marvel VR game MORE: Video game exclusives are dying as PlayStation plans new Xbox and Switch ports
Gizmodo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Marvel Tokon' Puts Marvel Back in Its Best Gaming Home
Before the likes of Insomniac Games and Square Enix got their hands on Marvel, the publisher's superheroes inhabited many a genre. But they were most at home in the fighting space—X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, and of course its many, many crossovers with Capcom, which famously include the vs. Capcom series, are fondly remembered and define Marvel's video game presence. Since 2017's Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, and with the growing popularity of cinematic action-adventure titles, no one knew if Marvel would ever return to the fighting space. Then came PlayStation's recent State of Play stream, which concluded with the reveal of a wholly new title: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, courtesy of Arc System Works, the Japanese studio best known for BlazBlue and several Dragon Ball fighting titles. The 2026-bound game has caught attention online thanks to its art style and the pedigree of its developer. Oh, and it's a 4v4 tag team fighter, the very same thing which defined Marvel vs. Capcom. (Save for that series being 3v3.) A behind-the-scenes video for Marvel Tōkon shows this wasn't just a happy accident. Marvel Games' Michael Francisco explicitly stated PlayStation came to them with a desire to 'bring Marvel back to the forefront of the tag-team fighting genre,' a tacit admission that Infinite came and went faster than expected. The game reportedly missed its sales targets after less than a year of release, and launched to decent, but not glowing, reviews. A particular critque was aimed at its roster; previous entries got to have big, then-out there choices like Nova, MODOK, and Silver Samurai. Infinte was not so lucky, and coming out at the height of the MCU, it primarily featured characters Marvel had the rights to, which famously meant the loss of a bunch of series staples, including no Doctor Doom or X-Men of any kind. Since then, things have worked in Marvel's favor (read: Disney bought all of Fox) that it's been less restrictive about who's in their big video games. Blade, the Fantastic Four, and various X-Men are all over Marvel Rivals and Midnight Suns when they wouldn't have been just a decade earlier. That freedom will be a big help for Tōkon; rosters are a huge draw of fighting games, and Arc System Works showed it's got the juice right away with its opening lineup including Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes), Storm, and Doctor Doom. There's likely some intentional cross-mixing here with NetEase's future Rivals additions—sooner or later, Kamala and Robbie will be in the game, I'm certain—but it also doesn't hurt that several characters will use this game to make their debut in the genre. Fighting games are big and flashy as hell, and one way to get people interested would be showing how someone like Miles Morales or the Vision translates to a genre we've never seen them inhabit before. Also working in Tōkon's favor is how it'll run unopposed in the licensed fighting game space for a while, at least when it comes to its direct competitor. After Injustice 2 in 2017, NetherRealm has kept its focus on Mortal Kombat, likely in part because it didn't know if it'd even get to to keep making Injustice. Now that it's closed the book on Mortal Kombat 1, a third Injustice is probably around the corner eventually. But making games takes time, and the studio's next project is likely a year or two away from a reveal, much less release. Until then, Arc System Works will keep on showing off its roster, gameplay mechanics, and art design to an audience more than eager to play with a shiny new Marvel thing. With the existence of Marvel Tōkon, a popular joke floating around is how put out Capcom might feel about all this. The Resident Evil publisher has had plenty of hits in recent years that it might be willing to let Marvel vs. Capcom hang on the shelf indefinitely, but it might also renew the developer's desire to get the franchise back on track. A collection of remastered games from 2024 might've helped get the ball rolling on a potential revival, and last year, Capcom producer Shuhei Mastumoto underlined that both companies would be keen to bring MvC back. Having a classic fighting series stand alongside a fresh new one would definitely be a boon to Marvel and their respective developers. We won't know until we know, but regardless of how things shake out, lovers of the fighting game space will be more than satiated.
