Interviews with Harada on Tutorial Mode, Tekken 7 Development and the Future

New interviews with the Tekken head producer Katsuhiro Harada surfaced recently on some gaming sites. The PushSquare & PC Games N's interviews with Harada go over some pretty interesting topics like the current development circumstances for Tekken 7 as well as some minor insights on what they're thinking of for the future of the series. The PGN interview mainly goes over the decision to not include a tutorial into the game but the PushSquare features a more extensive discussion. I'll be adding notable snippets from both below but feel free to read the source interviews in full over on their respective sites:

PushSquare Interview ≫ http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2017/10/interview_talking_tekken_7_dlc_development_and_future_plans_with_director_harada

PCGamesN Interview ≫ https://www.pcgamesn.com//tekken-7/tekken-7-tutorial

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Almost 1000 players have entered MASTERCUP.9!

Celebrating 10 years of MASTERCUP tournaments, MASTERCUP.9 is taking place next month with now over 990 players entering! The ninth MASTERCUP tournament in Japan will see the world's largest ever Tekken tournament with the latest Tekken 7 Fated Retribution game being featured. Registration for the tournament opened back on September 3rd but since then over 190 teams of 5 players have poured in to sign up for the monolithic tournament. MASTERCUP.9 is taking place on the 25th next month following the TWT Global Finals making it the big closing month for competitive Tekken for the whole year. You can expect to tune into MASTERCUP.9 live on Twitch with full commentary in November so look out for more details on the that soon. You can check out the latest combo video PV for the tournament as well as some of the notable teams entered into the tournament below. For more news and details on MASTERCUP, check out the official website:

MASTERCUP HP ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/

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NorCal StrongStyle Returns February 10-11, 2018

And it's back! StrongStyle 2018 is taking place February 10/11, 2018 at the DoubleTree by the Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California. It's been 3 years since the last StrongStyle event but this dedicated Tekken tournament series will see Tekken 7 being played when it comes back in early 2018. Team Spooky and the 10/0 team will be organizing the production behind the event with EightArc and Qanba USA sponsoring the event. In the words of NSS subt-L, this event will be streamed live this time so you won't miss it but you'll still want to be in the event in person. Can personally confirm, StrongStyle~5 was a great event looking back at Tekken Tag Tournament 2's life. Look out for more news and info on the tournament later as we get closer to the date. For now, check out the Strongstyle 2018 teaser video.

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Tekken World Tour Finals Taking Place November 12 with Playable Geese Howard

The stage is set for the Tekken World Tour grand finals for 2017! Taking place on November 12th in Matreon City view within San Francisco, America, the top 5 placers from each TWT region will be flown in to compete for the grand championship for Tekken 7. There's $50,000 USD on the line so the competition will be the very best of the world to see who will be crowned the world Tekken 7 champion. To further mark this grand event, playable demo stations of the upcoming DLC character; Geese Howard will be available at the venue on the day of the event for players to get their hands on the character prior to his worldwide launch. The Tekken World Tour Finals will be the culmination of the year running Tekken action spanning numerous events thoroughout the world so for sure this is the event to be at. Tickets to the event are now open via the Eventbrite website with all the details so be sure to check it out if you plan on attending.

TEKKEN World Tour Finals ≫ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tekken-world-tour-finals-presented-by-nissin-cup-noodles-tickets-38368375845

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The Fall Classic 2017 - Tekken 7 Tournament YouTube Archives

The Fall Classic was the latest stop in the Tekken World Tour as a Master tier event so a lot of points were on the line this past weekend. Earning 1st place in this tournament awards a grand 150 points contributing to the regional leaderboards which pretty much makes the winner an almost guaranteed shoe-in for the TWT Grand Finals. Among the players entered into Tekken 7 were Mr Naps, Speedkicks, PokChop, Joey Fury, Spero Gin and a whole lot more. The official YouTube archives for The Fall Classic are up on YouTube so here are the VODs if you wanted to re-watch all the action.

Bandai Namco Fight Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKHx_yf3dI2ajWAjXRJ_9Rw

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