The Art of Tekken: A Complete Visual History Hard Cover Artbook Coming October 30th

A new hard cover artbook for the Tekken series has been revealed to be coming out on October 30th via an Amazon store page listing. The description for the artbook details a huge 250 pages filled with Tekken concept art, developer insights/interviews and the Tekken series' entire history and lore up to the latest game of Tekken 7. It's being published by Dynamite Entertainment with Nick Hurwitch as the author and pre-orders for The Art of Tekken is now open for $40 on the US Amazon store page. Thanks goes to jdevil for the tip.

The Art of Tekken on Amazon ≫ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Tekken-Complete-Visual-History/dp/1524107735

New Set of Tekken 7 Character Art Panels are Dropping into Arcades on April 26

The arcades are set to receive a new batch of character art panels on April 26, the Tekken official website announces. These art panels are drawn by various artists at Bandai Namco and can be equipped as your character customization to use during the VS load screen. The older character art panels that were made for the console version of the game featuring international artists are also making their way to the arcades so everyone there can truly appreciate Mister Cartoon's King. There is no word yet on when these new artwork will be coming to the console version of the Tekken 7 but here's a small gallery of all the new art coming to Arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution.

Tekken 7 Arcade Character Art Panels ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=8275

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Tekken 7 Version 1.07 Update Includes Balance Changes & New Character Art Panels

If you're reading this, then go and update Tekken 7 right now. Version 1.07 just launched on Steam and PS4s and it includes all the balance changes made to the game in the recent Version N update for arcades. In addition to the balance changes, an assortment of character panel artwork created by various artist were also added into the game and as of right now currently locked in the game but should unlock for everyone soon. These artwork panels were revealed back in San-Diego Comic Con but have now made their way into the game as of today. Here's a gallery of all the new artwork added. For the official patch notes on Version 1.07, check out the Bandai Namco US post on the Steam forums.

Patch Notes 1.07 ≫ http://steamcommunity.com/app/389730/discussions/0/1496741765124645869/

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Gallery - High Resolution Tekken 7 Character CG Renders

Direct from Bandai Namco. It's not an absolutely complete gallery since the Tekken 7 FR costume update renders aren't available but this is the a large batch of renders including the vanilla costumes. These images or assets are helpful if you plan to do any kind of art work like posters, banners or even arcade stick art and need a high resolution source of the Tekken 7 characters. Smaller images of all the renders are inside here and links to download full size versions of the images are available in the bracketed links. Data warning for those on mobile data or dial-up, there's plenty of images to be found inside.

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Bandai Namco's Fighting Games Panel at SD-CC 2016

Once again Bandai Namco put together a Fighting Games Panel at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend to have discussions with the fans on their fighting game franchises. For the Tekken side, new Tekken related merchandise were made available to buy including a new $450 'Tekken Sukajan' jacket that has reversible sides with distinct artwork. For Soul Calibur, this was merely a discussion with the fans so I hope you didn't expect some crazy new announcements (haha.) N8nmonster and Chindogg on Twitter were there in the crowd and covered most of the things at the panel so I'll be rounding their tweets together for everyone not at SD-CC. If you're interested in the new Tekken Jacket, pre-orders are now available on the Bandai Namco online store:

Tekken Sukajan: "Heihachi" version ≫ https://www.bandainamcoentstore.com/product/413584/tekken-sukajan-heihachi-version-size-s

n8nmonster ≫ https://twitter.com/n8nmonster

Chindogg ≫ https://twitter.com/Chindogg21

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