Yoshimitsu Unveiled for Tekken 7 - Available to Play on May 12th

Update: Added more screenshots of Yoshimitsu from Bandai Namco onto this piece!

Yoshimitsu is everyone's next time release character this upcoming Tuesday in arcades! He'll be unlocked for everyone to play on the 12th of May at 9:00 AM in Japanese arcades so there's going to be several videos of Yoshimitsu gameplay coming to the internet soon. You can find screenshots and introductory trailer for Yoshimitsu from the Tekken-official page below.

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Tekken 7 - Over an Hour of Furumizu Footage from the Oslo Batting Center

There's currently plenty of sources to look for when it comes to direct feed footage of Tekken 7 - Multiple arcades in Japan like Guntama's Miracle In arcade, Gao's Game Plaza, Akihabara's Leisure Land and also Knee's Tekken 7 stream from the KMBOX branch in South Korea. The Oslo's Batting Centre which is in Tokyo's Tachikawa region looks to join this list since there's now been efforts to record matches from there. Just to give some background on the place, it's primarily a place to take rounds batting in a steel cage but it also houses multiple Tekken 7 cabs for people to play. This place is more well known for players like Deku (Ryo), Mister, Furumizu and more going in there to take advantage of the cheaper game credits per Yen in the place (It's 50 yen per game in here as opposed to the usual 100 yen.) The first recorded piece of recorded T7 footage from the batting center is Furumizu (Paul) doing online matches against a high ranked Law and Feng player. If there's more footage to come out of this place, you can find them all on the masatoshi1102 YouTube channel.

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The Making Of Tekken with Yutaka Kounoe

Awhile back, I managed to get my hands on a transcription of the 'Making of Tekken' Interview in the #104 issue of Retro Gamer Magazine with Yutaka Kounoe but for some reason or another I eventually ended up forgetting to share it with everyone. There's a lot of development background information that is especially interesting for anyone that is curious on the development of the early Tekken games so I feel like this is great to put out there. This interview goes in depth with a game developer who did work on the first 3 Tekken games while he was working in what he considered to be 'Namco's golden era.' Yutaka Kounoe currently no longer works at Namco and has since moved on to found his own indie game development company: O-Games. This interview was published around June, 2012 so it's been awhile from now.

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Tekken 7 - Josie Rizal Movelist Rundown

Josie Rizal has been out in Japanese arcades for a small period of time now but it wasn't until the 28th of April did Korea finally get the chance to play as her. And with that, the official Korean Tekken-net website has updated with her movelist and the Game Plaza Gao arcade has once again provided a complete movelist video for Josie which I'll be using for this rundown. Given a brief glance at her movelist, she shares a lot of similarities with Bruce Irvin from previous Tekken games however she has her little own spin on the moveset. She'd probably be a great place to start if any Bruce players were looking into getting into Tekken 7. Let's begin.

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Updated Tekken 7 Build Playable at Texas Showdown & Combo Breaker Tournaments

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Majors props to the TEKKEN project team for pulling through with an updated build of Tekken 7 for these upcoming events despite the recent burglary incident. If you happen to be in the area of these tournaments, you can try your hands at the newly time released characters: Jin, Devil Jin, Josie Rizal & Gigas in Tekken 7. For further information on these tournaments, you can consult their websites.

Texas Showdown 2015 ≫ https://txshowdown.com/

Combo Breaker 2015 ≫ http://combobreaker.org/