Tekken

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Gets Added to EVO 2014 Line-Up

Whether you love or hate Namco’s long-running Tekken series, you have to admit that it sure was weird not seeing its latest installment as part of the EVO 2014 line-up. But, Heihachi Mishima fans can rest easy now: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has just been announced as one of the titles that the world’s best…

Controllers? Pft. Watch This Guy Play Tekken With A Piano.

Sure, there are a lot of amazing fighting game players out there. But how many of them can kick ass and play the piano at the same time? In the lineage of Soul Calibur with a fishing controller and the Doom Piano comes the Tekken piano. Using a Arduino and several other parts, one young…

I Can’t Dance. But These Video Games Make Me Feel Like I Can.

OlliOlli joins the rare rank of video games that make me feel like I have any kind of rhythm at all. Dancing is in my genes. My twin brother used to sneak out to clubs in the 1990s to get his dance on. My sister does capoeira—the Brazilian martial art based on dance moves— nowadays…

Today, the official website of actor Kane Kosugi issued a correction and apology, stating the actor wasn’t starring in a prequel calledTekken – A Man Called X, but rather, a non-Tekken movie with the temp title Agent X. “We would like to apologize for the ineptitude on our part,” stated Kosugi’s official site. Not sure…

Oh God, They Are Making Another Tekken Movie [Update]

You remember the last one, don’t you? A movie so bad that the games’ lead developer actually apologized. If you haven’t wiped that from your brain, there’s apparently another live-action Tekken happening. According to Cinema Today, actor Kane Kosugi (Godzilla: Final Wars, DOA: Dead or Alive) announced that he’s starring in an upcoming Tekken film…

A Next-Gen Fighting Game For Everyone

Undoubtedly, there are fans who are ecstatic to hear that Killer Instinct, the classic fighting game that came in a snazzy black cartridge back in the early 90’s, is going to come back. But when the game was announced earlier this year, there also seemed to be an air of bewilderment about its revival—loved as…

One of the World’s Best Tekken Players Is a 13 Year-Old Kid

At the recent Tekkeg Tag Tournament Global Championship in South Korea, 13 year-old Alexander “AK” Laverez sure has remarkable skills when it comes to fighting games. The young Filipino was able to beat Japan’s favorite Nobi as well as one of the top Korean player Help-Me!! Although he finished third (that means $1000 and a…

The PlayStation 5 Probably Won’t Be a Console, Says Tekken Producer

This fall, the PlayStation 4 will finally be released. Enjoy that physical media playing game console thingy! As one game producer says, it could be the last of its kind for PlayStation. In a recent interview in Famitsu, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada of Namco Bandai talked a bit about the future of the PlayStation, its…

This Simple Animated Film Might Make You Cry

Tekken, the Japanese comedian who named himself after the Namco fighting game, is back again with another animated short. It might make you all weepy. Maybe not! Previously, Tekken released an anime short called “Furiko” (or “Pendulum”), which featured a Muse track and even led to the comedian working with British rockers on a music…

Tekken X Street Fighter Looking for the ‘Right Time’ to Release

Street Fighter X Tekken released on March 6, 2012, meaning Namco Bandai has been answering so-where-the-hell-is-it questions about Tekken X Street Fighter since March 7, 2012. Five games under the Tekken brand have appeared since, raising offhand speculation about TxSF‘s priority. Street Fighter‘s star producer certainly didn’t help things much when he joked that the…

Tekken Revolution‘s Next Character is a Vampire—Not a Giant Fish

If you were hoping to seea giant, flopping, egg-spewing salmon as the next character in Tekken Revolution, I have bad news: Of 10 concepts they could have picked, Tekken fans picked perhaps the sanest and most predictable: Female Vampire. Female Vampire, as yet unnamed (described on the official Tekken site as, “a young girl, long…

Missed This Year’s EVO? Watch All The Grand Finals Here.

People competed in nine different fighting games in last weekend’s EVO 2013 tournament in Las Vegas. To see everything, you had to continuously switch between two streams back and forth from Friday to Sunday evening, so even hardcore fighting game fans might have missed one or two. Nine different games mean nine grand finals and…

What in God’s Name is Tekken Revolution Doing With Its Roster?

Tekken 3, way back in 1997, had plans to include a new animal character in the fighter roster—a salmon. It was quickly judged too ridiculous to justify a $1-per-play cost in an arcade. Well, Tekken Revolution is taking suggestions for new characters, and the fish is one of them. And the others are even weirder.…

This Seven-Year-Old Could Probably Beat You at Tekken Tag Tournament 2

You’d figure that the guy running a fighting game tournament would be able to take out a grade-schooler with ease, right? Not exactly. In the first few matches of this Tekken Tag Tournament 2 face-off, CEO Gaming bossman Alex Jebailey gets worked over good seven-year-old opponent King Rey, Jr. It’s kind of painful to watch.…

Predator Riding an Alien? Star Wars Samurai? Now, This Is Cool.

Takayuki Takeya is one of Japan’s most talented—and unusual figure sculptors. His work is sometimes dark and even disturbing, but it’s always interesting and often very cool. Recently in Tokyo, Takeya’s work was on display at 3331 Arts Chiyoda. This was his first exhibit in over a decade. Have a look: Takeya might be best…

The PlayStation 3 will get the free-to-play Tekken Revolution on June 11, according toGameSpot (at 19:30 of the video linked) Characters shown include Kazuya, Lars, Bryan and Paul [via EventHubs]

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 90s

By the end of the 90s, the 16-bit era ended and 3D took over. With the PlayStation and 3D graphics cards out there allowing for new possibilities, narrative and gameplay, the 90s produced some of the most attractive characters in video game history. Well-known mascots and protagonists made their transitions to 3D, other, yet to…

MMA Contender Trained for His Title Shot with Tekken

Tonight, Uriah Hall faces Kelvin Gastelum in the middleweight final of The Ultimate Fighter. Hall is an up-and-comer in top flight mixed martial arts, thought to be a contender in a middleweight division whose title holder is Anderson Silva, one of the best fighters in the world. But how Hall got to this stage is…

The Most Insane Cyborgs In Japanese Video Games

Cyborgs in fiction are always associated with free will, morality, the importance of being human or the limits of the human body. Toughened up by the harsh, cruel worlds they live in, cyborgs are always insanely cool. We decided to collect some of the craziest ones from Japanese video games. Maxima (King Of Fighters series)…

Tekken Is Getting Its Very Own Virtual (And Real-Life) Card Game

The King of Iron Fist Tournament will be raging on in 2013, this time with the fiercest weapon of them all: playing cards. Namco Bandai Games has just announced Tekken Card Tournament, a mobile/real world card game that is set to launch “in the next few weeks.” Tekken and card gaming: a match made in……