Geese Howard, Instant Rematch in Player Matches & Input Lag Updates Coming Soon

UPDATE: Stream archive with timestamp added.

Amidst all the hubbub of the newly announced Noctis guest character, it's important to bring forward that during the announcement stream, both Harada and Murray made comments towards upcoming updates for Tekken 7. We did not get an exact date for the release of Geese Howard however he is currently undergoing examinations from 1st parties so expect him to drop on console and Steam real soon once they have been completed. Instant Rematching in Player Lobbies was the next topic with them saying that they're planning on implementing this in an upcoming future update to the game, so they do hear you on that. Last but not least was the Input Lag currently in the game. They remarked that they're currently working with Epic to make changes to help reduce the input lag. No word on how long that will take since it is a big undertaking on their end however they hope to have it out 'within the year.' Those were the other news presented from the stream and I'll have up the archive from the Twitch stream after the finals are over.

TWT Grand Finals Tekken Twitch Stream ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/tekken

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MASTERCUP Tekken Fight Club Niconico Stream on July 25th

Tomorrow night in Tokyo, Japan is the MASTERCUP Tekken Fight Club stream on niconico. The niconico "Tou.channel" (闘.ch) is presenting an online broadcast with the large-scale user community tournament MASTERCUP and Tekken playing pros Yuu & Nobi from Yamasa for a Tekken Fight Club special. Bandai Namco is confirmed for an appearance with Tekken dev team members Katushiro Harada and Nakatsu to appear as guests and present the latest news on Tekken 7 during the stream. The broadcast will go over the MASTERCUP series of tournaments, feature a Tekken lesson from Tekken pros with an online tournament after it and then potentially new announcements regarding Tekken 7 so tune in tomorrow at 8 PM Japan time (4 AM PDT) to catch the broadcast live. Link to the niconico stream and schedule can be found below:

MASTERCUP TEKKEN FIGHT CLUB ≫ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv303088525

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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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Harada on The Current Status of Crossplay for Tekken 7

"Don't ask me. ASK 1st party." Says Harada. He continued on in a string of tweets today addressing the main issue that is getting in the way of enabling console crossplay for Tekken 7 which are the 1st party policies in place that the developers have to adhere to when they develop games for their systems. Enabling crossplay between certain systems like PC <-> PS4 or PC <-> XB1 was also shot down because that would be splitting the player base on the PC which they can't do. He didn't say it but hypothetically speaking, the thought of PC players only being able to play with either PS4 or XB1 players does sort of bring the console that is not crossplay enabled down. So for now, people that are waiting on the status of crossplay for Tekken 7 to make their purchase, check out the related tweets on Harada's Twitter account and make your mind from there.

Harada_Tekken Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN

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JDCR & Saint Set to Attend Collision 2017 at Lima, Peru on Feb 18-19

The COLLISION Championship Series are happy to announce that two Korean Tekken champions are making their way to the premier tournament series in the city of Lima, Peru. 2016's Evolution and Global Championship grand finalist Saint, is joined by fellow dominant Korean player JDCR as they set out to get revenge on the competition in the region when they make their way to the tournament this month. Alongside those news, Collision 2017 has expanded in a big way from last year's tournament as it has announced that they're including multiple other fighting games as well getting Tekken Project team members Katsuhiro Harada & Michael Murray to confirm their attendance at the event. Not only that, but it also has to be said that the Tekken Brand Manager Mark Religioso as well Tekken community figure MarkMan are making an appearance there. COLLISION 2017 takes places in the capital of Peru this month on weekend of the 18th & 19th and is certainly not going to be an event you want to miss out on so stay tuned for more news from the event as well as live stream info. For more details on the tournament including how to register, check out the tournament's web pages:

COLLISION Championship ≫ http://collisionchampionship.com/

Facebook ≫ https://www.facebook.com/collisionchampionshipseries/

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