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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JDCR Will Be Attending Lionz Den 2

For those who missed the initial announcement on ATP Live, Lionz Den head honcho OzzyTheLiono got a phone call from JDCR announcing that he will be participating in the Lionz Den 2 tournament in London which is coming up in April. If you're in the area and want in on the TTT2 superstar line-up action at the event, this is definitely the tournament to enter. You can watch the announcement video below. For more info on Lionz Den 2, make your way to either the FaceBook page or TZ page here:

Facebook page ≫ https://www.facebook.com/lionzdengaming

Tekken Zaibatsu thread ≫ http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.php?s&threadid=130843

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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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Import Your TTT2 Tekken-Net Data to T7 to Receive a new Mokujin Lifebar

The official Tekken-Net website updated with a new post detailing the benefits of importing all your previous card data you have in TTT2 arcades into the new Tekken-Net for Tekken 7. Carrying out this operation allows some bonuses to be given to your Tekken 7 card data such as 100,000 in game gold, allowing your TTT2 rank to be displayed on your T7 profile, moving your in-game tournament titles and finally the new customization item introduced in Tekken 7 - a new pair of Mokujin based lifebars. Players in Japan currently have until the 17th of March to import their data if they want to receive all the new goodies on Tekken-net.

Source ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=330

TTT2 Tekken-Net ≫ http://web.tekken-net.jp/tag2/

T7 Tekken-net ≫ http://web.tekken-net.jp/tk7/