IGN Video Interview with Japanese Pro Tekken Player Nobi

Famed Tekken Instructor Nobi recently got interviewed by the IGN crew during their visit to the Namco Sugamo arcade in Tokyo, Japan. The video interview to come from this gives us a more close and personal look as to how Nobi got into the Tekken series and how he managed to eventually turn it into a career by getting employed by the arcade to teach players the ropes in Tekken. Nowadays Nobi can still be found giving new players Tekken lectures alongside his fellow Yamasa sponsored Tekken players; Yuu and Take. You can catch Nobi streaming various games with Yuu over on their gaming Twitch channel.

IGN Video interview ≫ http://www.ign.com/videos/2017/02/10/how-one-man-turned-a-tekken-obsession-into-a-career

Nobi's Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/daichinobi

Yuu & Nobi's Twitch Channel ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/yuunobi_gaminglive

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IGN Video - Inside the Development of Tekken 7

IGN recently put up their video tour of the development offices from the Tekken project team in Bandai Namco Japan. Game Director Kouhei Ikeda, Program Director Kei Kudo & Lead Character Director Tomoko Odashima give their thoughts behind creating the latest installment in the long running Tekken franchise. There's also minor bits of playable video of the characters Eliza & Kuma but it is all still early footage.

IGN ≫ http://sea.ign.com/tekken-7-arcade/112169/video/inside-the-development-of-tekken-7

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The World's Largest Tekken Tournament Series MASTERCUP Returns on Nov 4

[UPDATE - 5/17] MASTERCUP.9's date has now been shifted to November 25th for anyone attending. Announcement post on the date change can be found here.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary of the long running MASTERCUP Tekken tournament series, Mastercup officially announced the dates for MASTERCUP.9 as November 4, 2017! MASTERCUP is a long running Japanese Tekken tournament series which boasts an incredibly high amount of players with the previous installment; MASTERCUP.8 bringing in over 900 players across 180 teams to compete in Tekken 7. MASTERCUP.9 returns this year running Tekken 7 Fated Retribution in Tokyo, Japan and is set to be the biggest tournament yet with hopefully another appearance by the Tekken project team as well as being broadcasted worldwide with a Japanese, Korean & English stream. More news and details to come from MASTERCUP.9 will be coming out during the year so keep an eye out on the Mastercup Official website for more news and updates in the future!

11/4 MASTERCUP.9 10th Anniversary ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/16283

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Saint's Tournament Vlog from the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2016

Posting up the Video Log that Saint recorded from his trip to Japan for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Grand Finals last month. You can take a look and see through the eyes from our Tekken champion of the travels he took while staying in Japan with all the other qualified Tekken players. The Vlog explores various places of interest from Tokyo, Japan including the Namco Sugamo arcade, food shops a shrine and the fancy high rise building with a view of the city. Check it out and for more content from Saint & JDCR, follow the Battle Finger (formerly taktak1893) YouTube channel.

 BattleFinger ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/taktak1893

 Saint's Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/TK_SAINT

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Tekken 7 Fated Retribution - Character Punishment Rankings

[UPDATE] - This post has now been updated with various corrections here and there that have been pointed out in the original list. They will all be listed in GREEN and BOLD from below. Thanks again everyone that sent me corrections. I'm planning on hopefully doing another Punishment Ranking chart for the console version of Tekken 7 with 100% correct info when that eventually arrives.

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Contained within is character punishment rankings that lists most of the roster in T7FR's respective punishers to use during standing and while standing punish situations. It is also ordered together by the amount of damage they do seeing which character can make punish really hurt when they see a mistake made by the opponent. This data comes courtesy of D-San over on the Japanese Zexi site who listed most of the data together. You can click the links here to view the source but I've transcribed everything into English below. As of writing this now, Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is out and currently on Version H.

T7FR Standing Punishers ≫ http://zexi.org/?m=diary&a=page_detail&target_c_diary_id=1133480

T7FR While Standing Punishers ≫ http://zexi.org/?m=diary&a=page_detail&target_c_diary_id=1133534

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