Harada Teases 'Great Idea' for Corpse Kicking in T7 FR

Update: Correction added. When I initially wrote this up, I presumed that since Harada brought up both sides for corpse kicking that he meant the new method would be one that one please both sides. This was not the case. He just stated that there's a new ('画期的' was used to describe it.) structure in place put into T7 FR for corpse kicking after hearing both the majority and minority side's opinion on the matter. You'll still have to wait for T7 FR to see what it is. Apologies for the misreport.

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'死体蹴り' for those who don't know is the act of continually beating or attacking an opponent even after you've won. It's translated literally as 'Corpse Kicking' so the concept is pretty much beating a dead player. In Japanese gaming culture, there are people that identify this behavior as a form of bad manners and will take offense towards this. This does take serious form in fighting games over there since people do get heavily invested in matches. The Tekken games has been having this issue too for a while now since after the opponent was defeated, there was time to sneak in extra attacks before the start of the next round. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 completely avoided this issue by no longer allowing any kind of attack after the match was over (unless they were wearing certain custom items.) This in return, has displeased those that missed the chance to do anything like a taunt or whatever after a win. After dumping his thoughts and weighing the pros & cons for corpse kicking, he briefly teased that a new structure is put in T7 FR for corpse kicking. The original tweet in Japanese can be seen here:

Harada tweet ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/690375692148740097

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Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Location Tests Being Held on Feb 12 - 14!

Just announced via the Tekken Official website, Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is going to be having Location tests in Japan next month! It is planned to occur on February 12 (Friday) and run until the 14th (Sunday) at 3 Japanese arcades. The arcades are: Namco Sugamo in Tokyo, Round One Stadium Sennichimae arcade in Osaka & finally Namco's Hakata Bus Terminal arcade in Fukuoka. These are all the details for this current location test announcement but the web page mentions that further news on the location test will be arriving soon in the near future. We might be able to see Akuma playable in the hands of Japanese players soon it seems.

Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Location Tests ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=3246

Kumite In Tennessee 2016 | Fighting Game Tournament ft. Tekken 7 on Jan 15 - 17

This weekend is this year's Kumite in Tennessee tournament event! Among the big lineup of fighting games at the tournament are both Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and the arcade version of Tekken 7. KIT2016 is taking place in Memphis, Tennessee and will be streamed live on Twitch on a big number of channels spread across the multiple tournament games. For the Tekken tournaments, they will be streamed through both PandaXGaming's Twitch channels. The action is set to kick off at 4:00 PM (CST) on Friday and will continue throughout the weekend. These are the links to the event and I have added below the large schedule visual.

Stream for Tekken pools ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/pandaxgaming2

Stream for Tekken Top 8 ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/pandaxgaming

acekingoffsuit Schedule visual ≫ http://imgur.com/yt7nAuS

KIT Website ≫ http://kitrevival.com/

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Tekken 7 - Namco Sugamo's End of Year Megane Grand Prix

Happy New Year everyone! Contained within are the Megane Grand Prix videos which recently took place in Namco Sugamo arcade as their big end of 2015 Tekken event. Hosted by Shudy, the format for 2015's Megane Grand Prix is 3on3 Teams with Waseda style format which pits every member on a team against each other opponent on the opposing team at the same time. Each win from a player gives the team a single point and the team with the most points wins. This team tournament is not similar to the MASTERCUP format as it doesn't have that aspect of a winning player carrying momentum to defeat an enemy team. If you need visual representation of this, check out the top right corner of the 1st image in this tweet. Alongside the Waseda 3on3 team tournament, there's also high level Japanese deathmatches, beginner tournaments, Nobi Tekken lesson videos are more uploaded and available to watch. Big thanks to Shudy! You can follow his channels here:

Shudy's YouTube Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/Shudy7me

Shudy's Twitch Channel ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/shudy_yoshel

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Round-Up: Tekken 7 Interviews At Jump Festa 2016

Jump Festa 2016 was a mainly Anime/Manga event that went down in Japan this past weekend but Bandai Namco Entertainment was present to announce a whole slew of games. Gaming press at the event got the chance to get updates on the Tekken series by interviewing the lead game designer and Harada's personal translator Michael Murray. There's piecemeal bits of information on Tekken 7 & Tekken X Street Fighter revealed accross numerous sites so this post will be rounding it all up.

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