JDCR & Saint Set to Attend Collision 2017 at Lima, Peru on Feb 18-19

The COLLISION Championship Series are happy to announce that two Korean Tekken champions are making their way to the premier tournament series in the city of Lima, Peru. 2016's Evolution and Global Championship grand finalist Saint, is joined by fellow dominant Korean player JDCR as they set out to get revenge on the competition in the region when they make their way to the tournament this month. Alongside those news, Collision 2017 has expanded in a big way from last year's tournament as it has announced that they're including multiple other fighting games as well getting Tekken Project team members Katsuhiro Harada & Michael Murray to confirm their attendance at the event. Not only that, but it also has to be said that the Tekken Brand Manager Mark Religioso as well Tekken community figure MarkMan are making an appearance there. COLLISION 2017 takes places in the capital of Peru this month on weekend of the 18th & 19th and is certainly not going to be an event you want to miss out on so stay tuned for more news from the event as well as live stream info. For more details on the tournament including how to register, check out the tournament's web pages:

COLLISION Championship ≫ http://collisionchampionship.com/

Facebook ≫ https://www.facebook.com/collisionchampionshipseries/

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T7FR - MBC's Highlights Video Episode 13

T7FR - MBC's Highlights Video Episode 13https://t.co/c2HFQNZo1D via @AvoidThePuddle pic.twitter.com/DadsL3Xhv1

— Wonkey (@Flying_Wonkey) February 1, 2017

The Korean King player MBC is back at it. Part 13 of his Tekken 7 Fated Retribution highlights video is now up! Come for the Tekken skills, stay for the wacky in game results.

MBC Tekken ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC98cAx2X3X7BePkuk7NuKKA

Highlights playlist ≫ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBdrzsiJPUHARiOmIjnE-2A-zcTj4RTvB

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IGN Video - Inside the Development of Tekken 7

IGN recently put up their video tour of the development offices from the Tekken project team in Bandai Namco Japan. Game Director Kouhei Ikeda, Program Director Kei Kudo & Lead Character Director Tomoko Odashima give their thoughts behind creating the latest installment in the long running Tekken franchise. There's also minor bits of playable video of the characters Eliza & Kuma but it is all still early footage.

IGN ≫ http://sea.ign.com/tekken-7-arcade/112169/video/inside-the-development-of-tekken-7

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The World's Largest Tekken Tournament Series MASTERCUP Returns on Nov 4

[UPDATE - 5/17] MASTERCUP.9's date has now been shifted to November 25th for anyone attending. Announcement post on the date change can be found here.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary of the long running MASTERCUP Tekken tournament series, Mastercup officially announced the dates for MASTERCUP.9 as November 4, 2017! MASTERCUP is a long running Japanese Tekken tournament series which boasts an incredibly high amount of players with the previous installment; MASTERCUP.8 bringing in over 900 players across 180 teams to compete in Tekken 7. MASTERCUP.9 returns this year running Tekken 7 Fated Retribution in Tokyo, Japan and is set to be the biggest tournament yet with hopefully another appearance by the Tekken project team as well as being broadcasted worldwide with a Japanese, Korean & English stream. More news and details to come from MASTERCUP.9 will be coming out during the year so keep an eye out on the Mastercup Official website for more news and updates in the future!

11/4 MASTERCUP.9 10th Anniversary ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/16283

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Harada Explains the Season Pass for Tekken 7

The characters & content in the game don't pay for themselves is the quick take on it. Whether the consumer is expected to know the details behind the game's development or care about it is another argument altogether though. Nonetheless, if you're curious and feel like you need to know, here is Harada's explanation on it taken from his Twitlonger post recently.

Harada on the Season Pass ≫ http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spif4h

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