Bandai Namco Celebrates 20 Years of the Soul Calibur Series

As reported on Gematsu, Bandai Namco recently put out a video on YouTube celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the SoulCalibur series. It takes you back to the series' beginnings with Soul Edge back in December 20th of 1996 and running up to the f2p Soul Calibur Lost Swords which was released 2 years ago. Bandai Namco put out a Press Release detailing the recent Soul Calibur Pachislot machine which is being made in collaboration with YAMASA to sell to that particular market but it also announced that the Soul Calibur franchise has shipped over 14 Million copies worldwide across all the games. The description in the 20th Anniversary video details a Project Soul web page but accessing it right now leads to a test page. You can check it out here. All in all, it's not the new Soul Calibur game announcement we're all looking for but at least Bandai Namco haven't completely forgotten the series.

Project Soul ≫ http://projectsoul.bn-ent.net/

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Final List of All Qualified Players for the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2015 Grand Finals

The finale for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2015 event is almost here and we now have all the players that have qualified for the Grand Finals set to go down in Tokyo, Japan on December 12th. These include all players that have qualified through the previous qualifying events held in East and west Japan, South Korea and East & West USA. There's also special-case qualifiers such as Nobi and AO who qualified through their placings at EVO 2015 and AK from the Philippines who was invited into the Grand Finals. The Grand Finals will offer the top placers of the event a big chunk of the 10 million yen prize money and will be broadcasted live simultaneously on niconico for the Japanese audience and Twitch.tv for the English audience. Harada has previously teased new and exciting news for the Tekken series at this event so you have more to look forward to than all the competitive Tekken 7 action. The streaming channel URLs for the KOIFT2015 Grand Finals are as follows:

niconico Grand Finals stream ≫ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv243941328

Twitch Grand Finals stream ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/tekken

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Tekken 20th Anniversary PV "Why Do You Play Tekken"

The tekkenchannel recently uploaded a new promotional video commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Tekken. It looks like they're going to do a version for a bunch of players that attended the 20th Anniversary event in Japan. The first video uploaded highlights AK. I suppose we could look forward to move of these in the future.

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