Tekken

There was a moment this weekend, in the middle of a particularly lengthy set of Tekken 8 with a friend, where I remembered half the reason I love Tekken. It was a brutally close bout, and this round came right down to the wire. It was so close, in fact, that we initiated two slow-motion finishes. The Tekken team had implemented this feature for Tekken 7 as a way to highlight those nail-biter “who lands the hit” moments. We got two of them, and well, you can see for yourself how that went here: Beautiful. Tekken is, for…

Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada has responded to the many, many rumours about Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa joining the franchise. Over the weekend, Harada took to social media to share images of the Tekken 8 stand at Tapei Game Show 2024, which was also playing host to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. “Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Tekken 8 are in the same Bandai Namco booth, which is confusing for a moment. This is the interesting part of publishing and distributing in the game industry,” he wrote but rather than picking apart the…

Bandai Namco has issued an update this morning, addressing matchmaking errors and crashes that popped up on launch night for Tekken 8. The latest entry in the Tekken series went live last night, and I hopped on for a few rounds with friends myself—said pals were playing on PC, and I was on PlayStation 5. It was quite surprising when we continuously ran into issues with crashing while trying to create and run an online lobby match. Whether PC-to-PC, or on crossplay, both platforms kept seeing crashes. It doesn’t look like…

Bandai Namco Entertainment Despite being a gamer my entire life, I’m still relatively new to the fighting game genre. I put countless hours into Super Smash Bros. Melee and Soulcalibur II as a kid, but I’ve otherwise only played series like Street Fighter casually. That means that I’ve missed decades worth of storytelling from a genre that regularly cooks up the wildest soap opera dramas available in gaming. I’ve only been fully introduced to that world in the last year after diving deep into Street Fighter 6, Mortal…

Tekken is a Japanese fighting game series, developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco), that saw its first release back in 1994. You might have already seen some of the games from this series running on arcade gaming machines with players smashing the buttons in a frenzy and performing increasingly complex moves to earn bragging rights among their friends. The first game I played in this series was Tekken 3 that released in 1997, and I was immediately hooked. The game was revolutionary for its…

“Tekken 8 doesn't quite land a perfect combo, but its strong enough to be a champion.” Pros Tight fighting controls Impactful new systems Beautiful visuals Great online experience Excellent story mode Cons Slim side modes Arcade quest is a slog…

2023 was a hell of a year for fighting games, with Street Fighter 6, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising and Mortal Kombat 1 all releasing. Now Tekken 8 is imminent, and that means it’s time for the marketing to ramp up. New character trailers have been dropping weekly, culminating in the 2023 Tekken World Tour, which saw the opening for the upcoming Bandai Namco fighter released. However, it also announced the first wave of DLC, including a huge surprise character rejoining the ranks. Eddy Gordo confirmed as Tekken 8’s…

Bandai Namco has released a video recapping the story of Tekken so far, presented by Succession actor Brian Cox. The five-minute-long recap of every Tekken game so far was posted yesterday (January 9) to the official Bandai Namco YouTube page. The video begins with Brian Cox stating that “every single fight, no matter how big or how small, has a story behind it” before devolving into Cox questioning the nature of his reality and wondering why “these fathers and sons keep throwing each other off cliffs”.…

We're just weeks away from the launch of Tekken 8 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The iconic fighting series makes its long-awaited return on January 26. The new installment will feature some big changes, including a single-player Arcade Quest mode and reworked character designs. Fans of the series have a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks, and preordering the game ahead of time isn’t a bad idea, as it comes with a few exclusive goodies.Here’s a look at Tekken 8 preorders, including all available…

Bandai Namco just released a very special five-minute recap of the history of the Mishima clan, to hype us up for Tekken 8’s release on January 26. And it’s narrated by none other than Succession‘s own Brian Cox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRIOVeirAa0 What’s so special about Brian Cox narrating Tekken? Any recap would be more than welcome at this point. Some Tekken fans weren’t even alive when the OG Tekken came out, and the plotline gets highly convoluted sometimes, but the extra layer of awesome here is the…