Tekken 7 FR x Pachinko 'CR Tekken 2 Toshin Ver.' Press Conference on June 15

Bandai Namco announces today that during June 15 in Japan, a press conferance for both Tekken 7 Fated Retribution and the recently revealed CR Tekken 2 Pachinko machine by Fields will be taking place. This press conference will be broadcasted over niconico live on the coming day featuring both of Yuichi Yonemori & Kohei Ikeda from the TEKKEN Project team. An exhibition match of Tokido VS Nobi will once again take place making this a run back match from their previous encounter at JAEPO 2016. The Tekken project team will be making new announcements from Tekken 7 Fated Retribution on this broadcast! This event is taking place live at the Belle Salle Shibuya Garden venue in Tokyo city.

Tekken Official ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=4122

Niconico Live Stream URL ≫ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv265625726

Pachinko CR Tekken 2 Toshin Ver ≫ http://surokan-matome.blog.jp/archives/7084043.html

Melbourne Community Purchases Tekken 7 Cabs, Now Available For Play

Here in the city of Melbourne, Australia, the community has come together to purchase their own set of Tekken 7 cabs for everyone to play on. The 2 set of cabinet costed roughly $20,000 AUD to get down here and that's not including further ongoing payments for Bandai Namco's fee to keep it running making this a pretty extraodinary feat for everyone involved. For those of you in the city, the cabinets are now up and running and a streaming station is set-up beside it so you can play and record Tekken 7 footage. The pricing for the machines to play is $2 AUD to start and then every continue from there being $1 AUD. The shop is open from 10 AM until late every day of the week so come on down if you get the chance!

Jin's Shop Address ≫ 422 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000. (Google Maps URL)

Click to read more ...

Headstomper 2016 | Swedish Fighting Game Tournament on 3 - 5 June

In southern Scandinavia this weekend is the HEADSTOMPER tournament featuring both TTT2 and Tekken 7 (arcade) tournaments. For what I understand is that, since there is only one Tekken 7 setup available at the event, the T7 tournament will only allow the top 16 winners of the TTT2 tournament to participate in T7. Think of the TTT2 tournament as a mini qualifier of sorts. With that said, lots of players within the region will be going and some notable names attending are JDCR from Korea and home boy The Main Man. The event is being streamed and you can catch all the European Tekken action over on Twitch.tv when they go live.

Headstomper 2016 ≫ http://headstomper.com/

Tournament Stream ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/megafightclub

TEKKEN 7 Stream (Top 16) on Sunday ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/bandainamcoeurope

Click to read more ...

New Arcade Business Model for Tekken 7 Fated Retribution - Many More Character Additions Planned

Big news came out of the Kelot Cup tournament from the Tekken 7 Fated Retribution producer Nakatsu. First off, the arcade version of Tekken 7 Fated Retribution will be planning on using a new arcade business model when it launches. As pointed out on stream, this business model for T7FR means that the game will be getting long time support and managed long after it goes live in arcades in July. Nakatsu surprised both Hameko and Yuu on the mic when he said that alongside new characters Akuma and Nina, 'Many More' characters are currently planned on being added for Tekken 7 Fated Retribution. Next bit of news to come from the stream - In mid June, Bandai Namco is organizing an official Tekken 7 Fated Retribution event for the upcoming launch of the title in July. Lastly, the Yamasa X T7FR items which was covered in the previous post here. You can catch Nakatsu making these announcements over on the Kelot Cup twitch archives:

Kelot Cup Twitch Stream (8h 25m 30s) ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/yuunobi_gaminglive/v/69004250

Combo Breaker 2016 | Fighting Game Tournament on May 27-29

Taking place this weekend in St. Charles Illinois is Combo Breaker 2016. A notable fighting game event in the Midwest which recently announced over 1000 participants scattered across over 20 games. For the Tekken series, it's part of the Tekken Tour with a Tekken 7 tournament, Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is available to playtest, a Tekken (3) Ball tournament is being organised and finally a Tekken Tag Tournament 2 side tournament. Schedule, pools, live stream info and more are now up and available for viewing. Don't miss out of any of the Tekken action this weekend!

Combo Breaker ≫ https://combobreaker.org/

TEKKEN Twitch stream ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/tekken

TTT2 side tournament stream ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/panchon2

Pools ≫ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K5Q5NSWzg1mLvMPvLFt5sbNmY1MTIDlDvRspKtql0g0/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=1231314032

Schedule (acekingoffsuit) ≫ https://twitter.com/acekingoffsuit/status/735628303810351104