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Sunday
Jan242016

Harada Teases 'Great Idea' for Corpse Kicking in T7 FR

Update: Correction added. When I initially wrote this up, I presumed that since Harada brought up both sides for corpse kicking that he meant the new method would be one that one please both sides. This was not the case. He just stated that there's a new ('画期的' was used to describe it.) structure in place put into T7 FR for corpse kicking after hearing both the majority and minority side's opinion on the matter. You'll still have to wait for T7 FR to see what it is. Apologies for the misreport.

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'死体蹴り' for those who don't know is the act of continually beating or attacking an opponent even after you've won. It's translated literally as 'Corpse Kicking' so the concept is pretty much beating a dead player. In Japanese gaming culture, there are people that identify this behavior as a form of bad manners and will take offense towards this. This does take serious form in fighting games over there since people do get heavily invested in matches. The Tekken games has been having this issue too for a while now since after the opponent was defeated, there was time to sneak in extra attacks before the start of the next round. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 completely avoided this issue by no longer allowing any kind of attack after the match was over (unless they were wearing certain custom items.) This in return, has displeased those that missed the chance to do anything like a taunt or whatever after a win. After dumping his thoughts and weighing the pros & cons for corpse kicking, he briefly teased that a new structure is put in T7 FR for corpse kicking. The original tweet in Japanese can be seen here:

Harada tweet ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/690375692148740097

Thanks Kakuge-Checker.

Wednesday
Jan202016

Yamasa Pachi-slot Tekken 3rd Angel Version PV

The Tekken series is getting another collaboration Pachislot machine with Yamasa. It's a pachislot machine so it's pretty much a Japan only slot machine that most of us here will never probably touch. The promotional video for Tekken 3rd Angel Version is up for viewing on pipocom1's YouTube channel so there's something to look at in the least if you like Angel I guess. Yamasa's Tekken 3rd Angel version is the 6th Pachi-slot machine for the Tekken franchise after Tekken R (2004), Tekken X (2006), Tekken 2nd (2012), Tekken Devil Version (2012) & Tekken 3rd (2014). According to Mode 1's blog, delivery of 5000 Tekken 3rd Angel Ver machines to casinos is scheduled for the 6th of March this year.

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Friday
Jan152016

Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Location Tests Being Held on Feb 12 - 14!

Just announced via the Tekken Official website, Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is going to be having Location tests in Japan next month! It is planned to occur on February 12 (Friday) and run until the 14th (Sunday) at 3 Japanese arcades. The arcades are: Namco Sugamo in Tokyo, Round One Stadium Sennichimae arcade in Osaka & finally Namco's Hakata Bus Terminal arcade in Fukuoka. These are all the details for this current location test announcement but the web page mentions that further news on the location test will be arriving soon in the near future. We might be able to see Akuma playable in the hands of Japanese players soon it seems.

Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Location Tests ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=3246

Thursday
Jan142016

Kumite In Tennessee 2016 | Fighting Game Tournament ft. Tekken 7 on Jan 15 - 17

This weekend is this year's Kumite in Tennessee tournament event! Among the big lineup of fighting games at the tournament are both Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and the arcade version of Tekken 7. KIT2016 is taking place in Memphis, Tennessee and will be streamed live on Twitch on a big number of channels spread across the multiple tournament games. For the Tekken tournaments, they will be streamed through both PandaXGaming's Twitch channels. The action is set to kick off at 4:00 PM (CST) on Friday and will continue throughout the weekend. These are the links to the event and I have added below the large schedule visual.

Stream for Tekken pools ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/pandaxgaming2

Stream for Tekken Top 8 ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/pandaxgaming

acekingoffsuit Schedule visual ≫ http://imgur.com/yt7nAuS

KIT Website ≫ http://kitrevival.com/

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Thursday
Jan142016

New Master Tournament | New Brazilian TTT2 Tournament on Jan 23rd

UPDATE: Tournament results and Twitch archive has been added to this post!

Not this weekend but next weekend, on the Saturday (January 23rd) is a new Tekken tournament being held in Brazil. The tournament will showcase some of the best Tekken players from the South American region and will be available for everyone to see live on Twitch. It's being treated as a send-off tournament to TTT2 to see who is the 'new master' before Tekken 7 rolls around. Sweepstakes are happening at the event with the prize pool for the top placers at the tournament being R$300 for 1st, R$250 for 2nd and R$60 for 3rd. If you're bored on that day, feel free to tune in. You can catch further details on the tournament at it's website and Facebook page:

Twitch stream ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/newmasterchampionship

New Master Tournament ≫ http://newmasterbrasil.tk/

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

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