Marduk, the angry criminal who missed leg day, and Armor King, the only wrestler unsporting enough to wear chainmail to a fight, are coming to Tekken 7 today. A third knuckle cruncher is also coming some time later: native American Julia Chang, who has undergone a redesign and is now an ecologically-concerned streamer. The new biffers were announced by director Katsuhiro Harada at the Tekken World Tour grand finals, the culminating contest of a year-long punchathon. Tekken is a perfectly sane game full of sensible people, and the sportsmanship on display at the grand finals was admirable as the world s best players fought for the champion s trophy. A panda won.
Bandai Namco has announced all the remaining characters coming to Tekken 7 as part of its second season pass.
Marduk and Armor King are available today, 3rd December, after being announced at the end of the Tekken World Tour 2018 finals tournament over the weekend.
Here's the official blurb on Marduk (his trailer is below):
Can you kick it? Yes, you can. Can you punt a ram? Yes, you can. Can you listen to the RPS podcast, aka the Electronic Wireless Show, as they talk about the best kicks in videogames? Yes, I already told you, of course you can. From the powerful hoof of Kassandra in the new Assassin s Creed Odyssey to the zombie-launching boot of Dying Light, we are chatting about some of the most forceful feet in recent history. Come listen, and kick up the volume.
Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. OK, listen, please stop hitting yourself, just for a second. I have Tekken 7 news. The demon-thumping biff em up is getting a big update this week, alongside its second season of characters, and it has released the patch notes for it s current characters. As is customary for fighting games, there are a lot of tiny adjustments to frame data, meaning characters go a teeny-weeny bit faster or an ickle-wickle bit slower as they break each other’s jaws. But the notes also highlight moves that ll cause a wall bounce . That s the new feature that will see your poor panda ricocheting off the cage and into your opponent s follow-up boot. Ouch. (more…)
Get ready for the next battle: Season Pass 2 launches on September 6th 2018 on Steam!
To optimize the game experience, this new patch improves all characters’ moves, introduces a new battle mechanic (Wall Bounce) and implements the following updates: revamped rank system & point gauge, updated user interface, improved rank conditions for other characters and New Easy-Combo and Assist features.
The 2018 Evolution Championship Series, better known as Evo 2018, went down this weekend, pitting the best of the fighting game community against one another in mano a mano combat across eight games: Street Fighter 5, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2, Injustice 2, Super Mash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. When the dust cleared, this is who was left standing:
Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition
1st - Problem X - Benjamin Simon
2nd - Tokido - Hajime Taniguchi
3rd - Fuudo - Kenta Ai
4th - Gachikun - Kanamori Tsunehiro
5th - Fujimura - Fujimura Atsushi
5th - Luffy - Olivier Hay
7th - THE COOL KID93 - Marcus Redmond
7th - Caba - Cristhopher Rodriguez Nade
Street Fighter's grand finals were once again the capstone event, and last year's champion, Japanese veteran Tokido, nearly took the title again. Another Japanese veteran, Fuudo, sent Tokido to the loser's bracket, but Tokido battled his way back and made it to the grand final, where he reset the bracket in a real nail biter. But Problem X's M. Bison was too strong, and he became the first UK Street Fighter Evo champion.
Dragon Ball FighterZ
1st - SonicFox - Dominique McLean
2nd - GO1 - Goichi Kishida
3rd - Fenritti - Shoji Sho
4th - Moke - Naoki Nakayama
5th - KnowKami - Perry Vinson
5th - Kazunoko - Ryota Inoue
7th - Kubo - Tsutomu Kubota
7th - Supernoon - Steve Carbajal
DBFZ set a viewership record for EVO and provided a slightly controversial, dramatic finish, as SonicFox asked to switch from P2 to P1 between matches. Some called it a delaying tactic to put the red-hot Goichi off his game, and SonicFox did turn things around to win in a dominant pair of final rounds.
Tekken 7
1st - LowHigh - Sun-woong Yoon
2nd - Qudans - Byung-moon Son
3rd - Lil Majin - Terrelle Jackson
4th - JDCR - HyunJin Kim
5th - Book - Nopparut Hempamorn
5th - Rangchu - Hyunho Jung
7th - Noroma - Takumi Hamasaki
7th - Chirichiri - Takumi Hamasaki
Super Smash Bros. Melee
1st - Leffen - William Hjelte
2nd - Armada - Adam Lindgren
3rd - Plup - Justin McGrath
4th - Hungrybox - Juan DeBiedma
5th - Wizzrobe - Justin Hallett
5th - Mang0 - Joseph Marquez
7th - Swedish Delight - James Liu
7th - S2J - Johnny Kim
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
1st - Omito - Omito Hashimoto
2nd - Machabo - Masahiro Tominaga
3rd - LostSoul - Eli Rabadad
4th - Nage
5th - Rion - Hisatoshi Usui
5th - Zadi
7th - Teresa - Fukuda Norihiro
7th - Fumo - Harukuni Suga
BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle
1st - Heiho
2nd - Fame96 - Jerome Latham
3rd - DoraBang - Ryuji Utsumi
4th - kojiKOG - Kazuyuki Koji
5th - Kazunoko - Ryota Inoue
5th - Fenritti - Shoji Sho
7th - Gouda
7th - DettyWhiteRock - Kohki Hayashi
Injustice 2
1st - Rewind - Curtis McCall
2nd - Tweedy - Tommy Tweedy
3rd - SonicFox - Dominique McLean
4th - Big D - Ryan DeDomenico
5th - Hayatei - Alexandre Dube-Bilodeau
5th - Semiij - Andrew Fontanez
7th - SylverRye - Mo Amaechi
7th - Biohazard - Matthews Commandeur
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
1st - Lima - Bharat Chintapall
2nd - CaptainZack - Zack Lauth
3rd - Nietono - Yuta Uejima
4th - Mistake - Tamim Omary
5th - Mr E - Eric Weber
5th - MVD - Jestise Negron
7th - Raito - Tetsuya Ishiguro
7th - Choco - Toshimasa Hayakawa
Street Fighter 5 action put up big numbers on the opening days of the tournament, according to this GitHyp report, but Dragon Ball FighterZ ultimately took the viewership crown, hitting nearly 258,000 concurrent viewers at one point, the highest viewership count of all time for an Evo main event on Twitch.
And like all good sporting events, there was a spot of controversy as well. Kotaku reported that the audience booed players who opted to use the Bayonetta character in the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U competition because it's viewed by many as having an unfair advantage over others. It got bad enough that a pre-finals match between CaptainZack and eventual 7th-place finisher Raito ended with a victorious CaptainZack flipping off the entire crowd as he walked off the stage; the announcers said they didn't condone his action, but acknowledged that the behavior of the audience was in "such bad taste" that it wasn't entirely unjustified. In the final match, Lima and CaptainZack, who were both playing with Bayonetta, simply stopped playing at one point, until Evo staff compelled them to keep fighting.
As anyone who stayed up last night to watch the Evo 2018 finals can tell you, fighting games are wild> right now. Massive upsets, big comebacks and surprise announcements abound, and few as surprising as Tekken 7‘s second season pass. Announced during the game’s finals last night, there’s another six characters headed to Bandai Namco’s fighter, three of which have been confirmed. Returning from earlier games are stylish assassin Anna Williams, Hong Kong super-cop Lei Wulong and – fresh from The Walking Dead – baseball-bat swinging warlord Negan.
In the wake of this weekend's EVO 2018 grand final, Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada unveiled three of the six fighters en route to Tekken 7's second season. The following short showcases veteran King of the Iron Fist combatants Anna Williams and Lei Wulong. It then teases character art for Negan—the baseball bat-wielding bastard from AMC's The Walking Dead, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Dun-dun-dun dun, little pig, little pig, let me in etc.
No footage of how Negan will perform in Tekken 7, then, but seeing Anna punch sister Nina Williams into the air, before loading a rocket launcher and firing off a missile at close range suggests little is off-limits.
With his signature baseball bat, perhaps he'll do to Lei Wulong et al what Morgan's Negan did to one of the telly show's main characters a couple of years back. A sight for sore eyes, indeed.
Bandai Namco reckons Tekken 7’s season 2 pass is "coming soon". In the meantime, have a gander at Dave Houghton's Tekken 7 review.
Here's a crossover we didn't expect: The Walking Dead x Tekken 7.
Bandai Namco announced the start of a new wave of DLC characters coming to the 3D fighting game for its second season, and one of them is Negan from Tekken 7.
While Tekken 7 is no stranger to guest characters (Akuma from Street Fighter, Geese Howard from Fatal Fury and Noctis from Final Fantasy 15 are all in the game already), the addition of Negan, the bat-wielding villain from The Walking Dead, is an odd one.
