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Kotaku East
Tekken Is Getting Its Own Korean TV Show
Good at Tekken Tag Tournament 2? Want to be on TV? South Korea is getting a new gaming program dubbed Tekken Busters in which features players facing off in The King of Iron Fist Tournament. Hopefuls must live in South Korea, must have their own Tekken arcade game card, and must have three players in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 18, 2012 -
Let These Beautiful Fantasy Images Kick You in the Face
And they’re not just sci-fi. As you can see in the above image, there’s fighting game Tekken, too. Whether it’s World or Warcraft or Avatar, photographer Michelle Monique mixes photos and art for her wildly vivid pictures. “I wouldn’t call myself a ‘traditional’ photographer because I like to create not interpret,” Monique wrote on her…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 16, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Tekken Fighter Gets All Prettied Up
Famed Japanese figure maker Kotobukiya is readying a “bishoujo” (beautiful girl) version of Tekken character Asuka Kazama The 1/7 scale figure will be out this August. It’s priced at ¥6,510 (US$80). Kotobukiya’s bishoujo line takes beautiful female characters and tries to make them all “bishoujo”—bigger eyes, softer features. Just look at this figure if you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 12, 2012 -
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Punches and Kicks Its Way to A September Release
The sequel to one of the most popular PS2 games will be arriving on the Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 re-assembles Jin, Xiaoyu and the other brawlers of the King of Iron Fist tournament for a nother go-round, with a few new special features. You’ll still be able to play…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 11, 2012 -
Street Fighter x Tekken Vita Version Features New Characters, Cross-Console Play with PS3
We’ve got new trailers for the PS Vita edition of Street Fighter x Tekken. Capcom promises 55 characters in the Vita version: the 43 available in the console game as well as six more from each side. Blanka, Cody, Dudly, Elena, Guy, and Sakura round out the Street Fighter crew, and Alisa, Bryan, Christie, Jack,…
By Kate Cox Published April 10, 2012 -
Kotaku EastIf This 3-Minute Anime Doesn’t Make You Cry, You Have No Heart
It’s called “Furiko” (or “Pendulum”), and it was recently featured on Japanese variety show. It’s only three minutes long, and it’s making people all weepy. The anime was drawn by the Japanese comedian Tekken, who named himself after the fighting game. It did not bring me to tears, because I have no heart. Obviously. You?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 21, 2012 -
Capcom Built Four-Way Multiplayer into Street Fighter X Tekken‘s PS3 Version, Then Gave Up on the 360
Street Fighter X Tekken has just been a post-release comedy of errors, whether we’re talking about on-disc DLC and the apologies for it, or bizarre character endings (that also highlight the on-disc DLC scandal.) Many have noticed that four-man cooperative play is supported on PlayStation 3 but not Xbox 360. Why is that, Capcom man?…
By Owen Good Published March 15, 2012 -
Kotaku East
She’s Not Just the Tekken Lady. She’s a Bowler.
To promote Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom roped in a handful of women to cosplay as the fighting game characters. Dubbed “Miss St. X”, the women are bikini models and starlets. One, however, stands apart when wearing funny shoes and throwing big, heavy balls. See, Rina Ohtsuka, who is cosplaying as Tekken‘s Nina, is a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 13, 2012 -
Street Fighter X Tekken Drops Game Critics with a One-Two Punch
Street Fighter. Tekken. Game titles followed by periods. These are the sort of weighty things on the minds of video game critics as they explore the fighting genre’s latest epic crossover. Epic. Crossover. Street Fighter X Tekken combines the great taste of Street Fighter with a creamy Tekken-flavored filling. It’s the first part of a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2012 -
Capcom Says On-Disc DLC Is For ‘Easy Compatibility,’ File Size
A whole bunch of Street Fighter X Tekken fans contacted us over the weekend to complain about what appeared to be on-disc downloadable content in the fighting game, which comes out tomorrow for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Some gamers have outspokenly criticized the idea of on-disc DLC—after all, if content is ready in time…
By Jason Schreier Published March 5, 2012 -
Sounds Like Those Vita-Only Street Fighter X Tekken Characters are On-Disc DLC for the Console Versions
YouTube user SoulReaperTTG has managed to get a hold of all the introductions for the 12 PS Vita-only characters in Street Fighter X Tekken which releases for PS3 and Xbox 360 on Tuesday. That above is Blanka and Sakura’s. The rest are available through the link below. The prologues have no narration, just moving art.…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Esports
See All the Action Here in this Weekend’s Final Round/Cross Assault Fighting Tournaments
Final Round XV is a fighting tournament currently under way in Atlanta, with action today and tomorrow in 10 different fighting titles. Four different live streams are available to watch; we’ve embedded all of them below. Team Sp00ky and FunkyP are handling the feeds for the main action, which is Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Street Fighter X Tekken‘s Mecha Pac-Man, Fat Mega Man Free to PS3 on March 13
The PlayStation 3 version of Street Fighter X Tekken will offer, free, the bonus fighters Pac-Man and Mega Man on March 13, a week after the game’s release, Capcom says. You can see what they look like in action in a video here Mega Man is based on the crappy box art of the original…
By Owen Good Published March 3, 2012 -
Kotaku East
From Generic Bullet Fodder to Distinguished Heroes: Koreans in Video Games.
“Are you a North Korean?” I’ve been asked this question as often in America as I’ve been asked by Koreans if I own a gun, because all Americans own guns. The answer to both is “no”. The two questions are too absurd to be borne, and the answer to both questions is obvious, but if…
By Chi Lee Published February 29, 2012 -
You Can Play Street Fighter X Tekken Tomorrow… in PlayStation Home
Sony’s virtual playground turns bloody tomorrow, as the Street Fighter X Tekken Total Game Integration event elevates into violence. For the first time, PlayStation Home avatars will be able to beat the living crap out of each other. They’ve built a replica of one of the upcoming fighting game cross-over’s stages in PlayStation Home, and…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2012 -
Kotaku EastDancing Girls and Giant Robots! The Arcade Games of AOU 2012.
Every February, the Amusement Operator Union holds its annual trade show. Much like the Tokyo Game Show, it’s held at Makuhari Messe—right outside of Tokyo—and also much like TGS, it showcases all of Japan’s upcoming games—only this time in arcade form. Other than the incredibly fun Speed of Light, there were several interesting games at…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published February 21, 2012 -
Kotaku EastTekken Tag 2 Has a Surprising Option
With Tekken Unlimited Tag Tournament 2 (temp title), Tekken Tag 2 is coming to Japanese arcades. Besides tag team, it also allows players to play one character vs. one character—which defeats the purpose of tag, no? Here is the game’s trailer, unveiled earlier today at the AOU arcade show in Chiba, Japan. Be sure to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2012 -
Kotaku East
It Was a Whole Day of Japanese Arcade Games
Today, AOU (All Nippon Amusement Machine Operators’ Union) kicked off its annual show AOU Expo in Chiba, Japan. Kotaku East’s Richard Eisenbeis and Toshi Nakamura were on hand to check out the day’s festivities. Here’s a look at what they saw. The show featured new games, such as a Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2012 -
This Dancing Bear is My Favorite Part of Street Fighter X Tekken
One of the only things better than beating a friend at a fighting game is childishly gloating about it, and no gloating is complete without an amazingly victory dance. That’s why I’m a giant fan of Kuma’s victory dance in Street Fighter X Tekken. It’s snarky, clownish and exudes a sense of “Neener-neener-neener” that’s hard…
By Chris Person Published February 10, 2012 -
Watch the Precious (?) Enhancements of Street Fighter x Tekken‘s Gem System
Street Fighter x Tekken‘s Gem System has been quite a controversy in the fighting game community. There are those who feel it makes the game too easy, that it will, in fact, break the game itself. After playing through SFxT‘s tutorial and pumping in a couple of hours into versus mode, I think that Capcom…
By Elyas Gorogo-Baker Published February 10, 2012