Tekken 7 Official Site Updated with System Info and Beginner's Guide

With Tekken 7 less then 24 hours away from being out in Japanese arcades, Bandai Namco has updated the official website for the game with new details and information on the game's systems as well as a Beginner's Guide PDF. They're all in Japanese but a lot of the information on the site is already quite well and the pictures are interesting to look at. You can look at the site update and PDF file here:

Tekken 7 Official site update ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/tk7ac/system/

Tekken 7 Beginner's Guide ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/tk7ac/pdf/TEKKEN7_torikore.pdf

Something important to note is that the website says that this Feb 18 'Pre-Launch' version of Tekken 7 is Online Only. That means that, you can't play against an opponent in the same arcade via local play at all in this build. So when you go to sit down with Tekken 7, you can either play against the CPU offline or an opponent online. I believe this was made so because they want to use this release of the game to test the online across various arcades in Japan and to match newer players with same level opponents instead of the local better players they might run into. Local play, Training mode and bunch of other features will be implemented into the game later down the line. (Currently planned for March 'Full Launch.')

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TEKKEN 7 Playable at the Japan Amusement Expo 2015

The Japan Amusement Expo event ran by the people behind the annual 'Arcade Operators Union' event in Japan is set to occur in Japan on the 14th of February which is the Saturday after this weekend. Bandai Namco have announced through the Japanese gaming press that they plan to have exhibits for both of their latest arcade works: TEKKEN 7 and POKKEN tournament. A thing to note about the event is that Namco sent in pictures of a new build that they're going to exhibit at the event so this may be the chance we've all been looking for to look at a new Tekken 7 build with Lucky Chloe and Shaheen which will be out in Japanese arcades on the 18th of February. If any news/media of any sort comes out of the event, we'll let you know. Thanks Famitsu for the news.

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TEKKEN 7 Will Be Available in Japanese Arcade on Feb 18!

Mark your calenders folks, TEKKEN 7 is expected to arrive in Japanese arcades on the 18th of February which is less then a month away. Several arcades/game centers across the country are expecting to receive the cabs and will make it available to play shortly on the day. The Super Nova arcade in Fukushima, Japan recently tweeted that it's going to be an arcades that will receive the game fast and make it available to play. So if you're in the area you can enjoy the 'pre-launch' version of TEKKEN 7. (and hopefully stream it too.)

Tweet ≫ https://twitter.com/novafukushima/status/559272973899554816

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Namco Sugamo 'Megane Off' Tekken Competition Match Videos

Back on new year's eve last year, Namco Sugamo hosted a tournament run by the resident Lee/Jin player Shudy. The Megane (lit. 'Glasses') Off ran TTT2 arcades with a new format of team tournament with the player pairings based on a system of 'Ratio' levels. The 4 ratio levels are simply based on the ranks each player has and then the teams were formed to balance out the skill level. Lower ratio players had higher number of players on their team while the higher ratio players had less players on their team or be by themselves. You can see a ratio 4 team (just Nobi) VS a team of 4x Ratio 1 players on the image above. The event was not streamed but Shudy got around to uploading the match footage on his YouTube channel. The videos were recorded with Namco Sugamo recording equipment so expect the usual booty nico quality.

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A 'Pre-Launch' Arcade Version of Tekken 7 will Launch in Feb 2015

Korean gaming site Cyfren recently published an interview that they scored with Harada and there's some interesting bit of news regarding Tekken 7 in it. I can't completely reproduce the interview here so I'll just quickly paraphrase everything that was mentioned in here. You can read the full interview over on the Cyfren website.

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