Tekken Retrospective 1993-2000 - Nostalgic Gamer Documentary

@tng_matthew is the author, director, and voice behind a number of incredible documentaries for various videogames you can see on his channel The Nostalgic Gamer. His most recent endeavor covers the history of Tekken. He goes over the various phases in production and the visionaries responsible for the Tekken series it's become from the original all the way to Tekken Tag Tournament.

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US-ONLY: 15% Off Tekken 7 Pre-Order at Amazon

An interesting deal popped up today for people in the US. Amazon is right now shaving 15% off the full $60 price tag of Tekken 7 to anyone pre-ordering the game. No one knows how long the deal will last but this is a good chance for US gamers to get $9 off the initial price. I'm not sure what sort of pre-order bonuses will appear later on for those interested but you can always cancel your pre-order if something more intersting comes that tickles your fancy appear in the future. Links are below

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Fergus2k8's Tekken 7 Character Overview

Ireland's premier Tekken community leader Fergus recently made a character primer going over each Tekken 7 combatant's strengths, weaknesses, and difficulty levels in under 200 words each. It's a fantastic piece of writing that can be very useful to any newcommer wanting to see what each character is about. You can find the link to the google doc here. Follow Fergus2k on twitter at @CkT_Fergus and twitch.

SpeedKicks Makes a List of What Separates a High Level Player From Others

Your KIT 2016 Champion of Tekken 7 Speedkicks was recently requested to make a writeup of what necessitates a Tekken player to reach a certain level of decency. He made the post on his twitter page which you can follow @SpeedKicks. SK dispels a lot of valuable knowledge articulating some things that many other top players don't explicitly mention due to their inate talent compared to others along with things that lead to so many road blocks of many mid-tier competitors.

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Direct Feed Screenshots of New Defaults and Stages

UPDATE (Wonkey): Added all the images below this post for those who can't access the Facebook page. All the images are original size but resized to 645 px to fit the page. Right click -> View Image or saving the images will keep the original size. Also maybe it's just me but some of these images look to have some kind of film grain and slight chromatic aberration added in. Not sure if indicative of final graphical quality.

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Along with the official trailer released yesterday, Namco also officially revealed some direct feed screenshots of the 7 characters that have new default outfits oon their official facebook page. And yes, Harada confirmed that the new attires worn during the KOIF2015 championship trailer are indeed default and not customizations. A lot of people have been asking for this a long time and it's great to see our wishes finally being answered.  The images are too big to display on this article so be sure to view them on this page.

Thanks to GrayFoxPL for the link.

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