Tekken 7 'Just Before Launch' Special YouTube Broadcast

Update: Show is complete and uploaded onto YouTube. The announcement was that Bandai Namco is organizing a online Tekken 7 event on March 29. This event will allow everyone in the country to play everyone else throughout the country. There's going to be a niconico broadcast on the event which will feature new information on Tekken 7 inside it. More details on it will come out in the future.

Tekken 7 is less then a week away from being completely launched out in arcades and Namco is organising a special 'Just before' web broadcast for the occasion. On the show, Tekken's head producer Katushiro Harada and special cosplayer guests Kinako Sano & Yuriko Tiger will be present to play some matches and discuss the new character design of Lucky Chloe. Additionally there's also going to be new 'Tekken Event' related news announced on the show and who knows what else. The show will go live on the official Tekken YouTube channel at 2:00 PM Japan time today which is less then 30 minutes away from now. You can watch the web broadcast with the URL below:

TEKKEN 7 'Before Launch' Special Broadcast ≫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMjCxGKJJI

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TEKKEN 7 will be playable at Final Round 18!

Much thanks goes to Markman for bringing the news to us all. TEKKEN 7 will be available for play at Final Round 18 on the 20th of March until the 22nd this month! It will be without a doubt a great place to be if you're set to enjoy some great Tekken action. Registration for Final Round 18 closes this Friday so be sure to register quick If you want in on the event. Of course, Tekken's Katushiro Harada and Michael Murray will also be attending the event making this a great chance to meet them in person. You can find more details on the tournament up on the Final Round website:

FINAL ROUND URL ≫ http://finalround.org/

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Tekken 7 Pre-Launch Version - Looking at the Combo System

Update: Added a few more important bits of information in the stage awareness section.

Tekken 7 is a new game and with that comes with some new changes. Early reports from Japanese arcade goers paints an interesting picture as to how you will want to craft your combos in the new game. Now that bound as we normally use to perform them is altered and mostly removed, there's a new combo extending property that looks to 'bound' the opponent a greater distance then before in previous Tekken games. Just so we're all clear on what to call them, Bandai Namco is officially calling these new moves 'Screw Attacks' (Abbreviation - S!) so I guess the community can move on from calling the attacks Kirimomi/Tailspins. I've also got some other interesting quirks of the combo system in Tekken 7 that I feel like should be looked at so I've added all of those below. Of course, this all comes from a 'pre-launch' version of the game so this could all very well change in the future so do keep note of that.

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Kuro Kuro Tekken 7 Twitch Channel Archives

Kuro Kuro is doing great work lately with his niconico/Twitch streams of Tekken 7 from Japan's Akihabara Leisureland Arcade. So far, he's streaming the game daily onto those channels with the Twitch stream being in higher quality now so it's more pleasing to look at this time around. His twitch channel is a great resource for Tekken 7 footage and if you enjoy watching it, I'd recommend that you follow his channel. You can find a whole slew of Tekken 7 footage in the past broadcasts section of his Twitch channel.

Kuro Kuro's Twitch channel ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/kurokuro9696japan

Special Note - I've embedded a few archives below but I can't make them all not autoplay on open. So be prepared to pause some of them if you open this post up.

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Tekken 7 Korean Site Opened

Just recently opened is the Korean official Tekken 7 website. This website will house all the basic and official information on Tekken 7 as well as be a community hub for players in Korea. There's tabs on the site for the game's story, upcoming Tekken 7 League and as well as forums for people to post on but they completely implemented into the site yet. If you're looking to play Tekken 7 in Korea in the near future, I'd recommend bookmarking this site.

Tekken 7 Korea ≫ http://www.tekken7.co.kr/