Tekken! Truly one of the great series of the fighting game world. I have many a fond memory of cartwheel-kicking my brother with Eddie Gordo in the PS1 days and now pulling off some big ol’ comboners with Leroy Smith!

With an anime TV adaptation in the works (trailer here), thought it’d be nice to share a little story from my experience with Tekken! So, let me take you back to the ancient era of… c2014.

Back in the day, my brother and I played the ever-living hell out of Tag Tournament, and Tekken 5.

One of bro’s favorite characters was Raven, a Blade-looking ninja lad. Cool design, cool moveset, cool as a knickerbocker glory hole!

Smash cut to some nebulous time in 2021 and we started playing Tekken 7 (once it stopped costing an arm and a leg)! Speaking of which, we sell plenty of Tekken games and merch right here if you’re so inclined.

We started playing and lo and behold, while there was no Raven, we did get one Master Raven. Again, hitting all the Rule of Cool checkmarks, but we were pretty surprised to see a Raven who wasn’t the one from our childhoods.

I didn’t think much of it at first… Until a eureka moment hit my Lefty SJW Woke Ass like a fire truck… Is Raven trans!?

Not long after that thought, I heard through the grape vine that Leo is a canonically trans character, which led me to think “sweet baby Jesus, I connected the dots“!

Unfortunately, I “didn’t connect shit… But I connected them“, as they say. I got playing Tekken 7 with a friend from work (Joel). I played a few rounds as Lucky Chloe purely so my other mate watching on the sidelines could ogle her and make Tammy-Contrapoints jokes.

Got chatting with Joel while playing and lad dropped the bombshell that Raven and Master Raven were actually two different characters all along! What a twist!

While I have you, show some love to Joel on his instagram if you want to keep in the loop for his upcoming Overthinking Listening Party on March 26th 2022! There’ll be an episode release party, producer cypher, open mic funtimes and more!

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Galactic Destruction King, Benevolent World-Eater… Kirby.

There was once a pink ball-boy called Kirby, who looked like a featherless furby. I jest of course, but there is some discourse on Forgotten Lands, almost found, surely!

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Tekken x Street Fighter is no longer in development, Tekken’s Katsuhito Harada reports.

Tekken X Street Fighter was announced by Bandai Namco at the 2010 San Diego Comic-con, alongside Capcom’s Street Fighter X Tekken. Street Fighter X Tekken was released 2 years later, in 2012. However, 11 years later, we still haven’t received Tekken X Street Fighter.

Street Fighter X Tekken was made by Capcom (as opposed to Bandai Namco). The core game mechanics were based on the 2D gameplay of Street Fighter, with the game including projectile-based moves such as the iconic Hadouken, dissimilar to that of the Tekken series.

Namco was set to release their own version of the series, which would follow their 3D gameplay style. Tekken X Street Fighter, however, had its development paused in 2016. As a result, we had heard little regarding any new developments on the game until recently, when Harada confirmed that development had been completely abandoned.

Bandai Namco consistently assured us that the game was still coming over the years. Unfortunately, however, that day will not come any time soon.

This is tough news to take for any hardcore fighting game fans who had waited these long 11 years to see some of your favourite franchise characters clash in a Tekken format.

Harada had previously said that they had developed about 30 percent of the game. He pointed out that from a motion standpoint, much of what they worked on was on display with the iconic Street Fighter character Akuma’s introduction into Tekken 7’s Roster.

Separate to character motions, Harada explained that they had a desire to show the character models they developed to all of us, but they would need co-operation by Capcom to do so.

In a VGC interview in 2019, Harada noted that with the continual success of Tekken 7 and its DLC, Tekken X Street Fighter was becoming harder and harder to justify. He notes that typically a fighting game has a 1-2-year lifespan, but the perpetual success of Tekken 7 (due to the DLC content) made investing in another fighting game irrational. Tekken 7, the most recent instalment in the Tekken series has accumulated over seven million players. Therefore, Tekken X Street Fighter has simply fizzled out.

Maybe one-day development will continue. Until then, we will simply have to remain patient and hopeful.

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As we all know the biggest companies who create some of the world’s best video games, have just delivered there press conferences at E3. Below you will see the biggest announcements made if you missed them:

• Xbox One S (Microsoft)
• ReCore (Microsoft)
• Forza Horizon 3 (Microsoft)
• FIFA 17 (EA)
• PlayStation VR (Sony)
• Battlefield 1 (EA)
• The Last Guardian (Sony)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Remastered (Bethesda)
• Titanfall 2 (EA)
• Just Dance 2017 (Ubisoft)
• Dishonored 2 (Bethesda
• South Park: The Fractured But Hole (Ubisoft)
• Steep (Ubisoft)
• Dead Rising 4 (Microsoft)
• Eagle Flight (Ubisoft)
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Ubisoft)
• Trackmania Turbo VR (Ubisoft)
• Werewolves Within (Ubisoft)
• Resident Evill VII (Capcom)
• For Honor (Ubisoft)
• Halo Wars 2 (Microsoft)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Sony)
• Ghost Recon: Wildlands (Ubisoft)
• Mass Effect: Andromeda (EA)
• Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco)
• Crackdown 3 (Microsoft)
• Fallout 4 VR (Bethesda)
• Prey (Bethesda)
• Scalebound (Microsoft)
• State of Decay 2 (Microsoft)

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WATCH

Gigas, Tekken 7’s Hulk-like and latest fighting character, takes to the stage!

Gigas is the all-new fighting character that Bandai Namco have revealed for Tekken 7 and will become playable in Japanese arcades from 28th April 2015. As you can see from the video below, Gigas is a mechanical giant and is sure to destroy any opponent that he comes up against. He’s like a mixture between Bane and Iron Man, who has been religiously on the protein shakes!

The game, powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, is already available in Japanese arcades. Bandai Namco have yet to reveal a release date for Tekken 7 coming to other platforms.

You can check out Gigas in action here, on our ‘Exciting Game Trailers’ playlist on YouTube.

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WATCH!

Tekken 7 opening movie

Everyone loves a bit of old Tekken, even though there have been mixed reviews about the latest character Lucky Chloe, and yesterday the cinematic opening for the upcoming full arcade release of Tekken 7 was finally revealed!

The video features core Tekken characters Kazuya Mishima and Heihachi Mishima having it out superior to a fiery volcano. Kazumi Mishima (pictured above), also appears in the video and will be making her debut in Tekken 7! Several new characters will be making their series debut in Tekken 7. These will include Shaheen, Lucky Chloe, Katarina and Claudio.

Tekken 7 was announced last year. The game, which is powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, will be released for Japanese arcades this year. Plans for the game arriving on consoles have yet to be announced.

Game director and series executive producer, Katsuhiro Harada, was quoted as saying that “with Unreal Engine 4, we can rapidly achieve visual quality expected on next-gen platforms and go beyond it. Not only is Unreal Engine 4 powerful and easy to use, it allows us to immediately bring Tekken 7 to any platform we desire.”

You can watch the opening sequence for Tekken 7 HERE, on our ‘Exciting Game Trailers’ playlist on YouTube.

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