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Negan and Julia Chang will be available to download in Tekken 7 on February 28

Bandai Namco has announced they will add the final two characters from Tekken 7‘s Season Pass 2 expansion to the game later this month.

Negan, from AMC’s The Walking Dead, and Julia Chang, who made her first appearance in the franchise in Tekken 3, will be available to download on February 28. A new trailer featuring both fighters has been embedded above.

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Tekken 7’s Season Pass 2 includes Anna Williams, Lei Wulong, and Negan from The Walking Dead

Tekken 7‘s first Season Pass featured Eliza, Geese Howard, and Final Fantasy XV‘s Noctis, but it looks like Bandai Namco has plans to add even more characters to the game. Season Pass 2 was announced yesterday during Evo 2018, and it’ll include six new characters. So far, Tekken series mainstays Anna Williams and Lei Wulong have been revealed… as well as Negan from AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead.

Your eyes do not deceive you, your pounding heart does not betray you; Negan from AMC’s The Walking Dead is making his way into Tekken 7 to deal a world of pain in the Tekken universe. Negan, beloved by fans of The Walking Dead for his charismatic yet sinister demeanor, is ready to destroy all challengers, regardless of their stature in the Tekken universe.

Lei Wulong makes his long-awaited return to Tekken, this time sporting some new threads, new attitude, and his deadly Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon styles. True Lei Wulong fans will also enjoy the return of Lei’s Drunken Master style to the Tekken 7 arena!

Anna Williams returns to wreak havoc in Tekken 7 and to drive her sister, Nina Williams, crazy! As the personal bodyguard of Kazuya Mishima and the second-in-command of the G Corporation, Anna doesn’t only have the intelligence to run circles around her opponents, she’s got the deadly fighting skill to back-up her killer looks as well.

Some fans might scoff at Negan’s inclusion, but you have to admit, he seems downright normal when you’re talking about a franchise that also features a “bodyguard bear” that knows karate.

The first trailer for Tekken 7’s Season Pass 2 has been embedded above, and according to the publisher, the characters will be available to download “soon.”

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Final Fantasy XV’s Noctis will join Tekken 7 in Spring 2018

Tekken 7‘s DLC roster is already packed with a pair of crossover fighters including Street Fighter‘s Akuma and The King of Fighters‘s Geese Howard. But beginning next year, someone rather different will enter the game’s arena…

Bandai Namco has announced that Noctis, the star of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XV, will be available to download in Tekken 7 in Spring 2018. Noctis will wield his “signature” Engine Blade as he does battle with Tekken 7’s biggest names. And you can catch a sneak peek at his inclusion in the game with the new trailer embedded above.

Tekken 7 is now available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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Splatoon 2 is swimming in green ink as the best-selling game from July 2017

The first year for Nintendo’s Switch continues to go swimmingly, and another exclusive release for the console has claimed the top spot in The NPD Group’s monthly tally of best-selling games.

Splatoon 2 was the top-selling game in July, beating out Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (#2) and a resurgent Grand Theft Auto V (#3). Three other Switch games managed to crack the Top 20, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#5), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (#7), and Arms (#17).

According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Switch was also the best-selling console in July. Nintendo’s new device is so popular that it helped push monthly sales to $588 million, a 19% increase over July 2016.

The remainder of the Top 20 was made up of the usual suspects, including Tom Clancy games (Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege at #9 and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands at #11) and three Call of Duty games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered at #12, Call of Duty: Black Ops III at #13, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare at #15).

The NPD’s complete “Top 20 Best-Selling Games” from July 2017 can be found after the break. (more…)

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Content Crash #7: Evo 2017 and Everything Esports

Welcome everyone to the Content Crash podcast. I’m your host, Dan Hartnack. As always, I’m joined by Keno Eastmond.

We’ve got some cool stuff to talk about today. We’re going to focus on everything esports. And what better time to discuss esports than in the aftermath of Evo 2017.

Fight!


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The 1-2 punch of Tekken 7 and Injustice 2 sit atop the best-selling games list for June 2017

Fighting game fans have proven, once again, that the genre is alive and well. According to the NPD Group’s recounting of the best-selling games in June, Tekken 7 (#1) and Injustice 2 (#2) took the top two spots. Nintendo’s bizarro take on the genre, Arms, also made a strong debut in the #5 spot.

Speaking of the Switch, Nintendo’s newest console continued to push the game industry to new heights in June, as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#6) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (#7) stayed in the top ten.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, NPD Analyst Mat Piscatella said: “The Nintendo Switch has been the catalyst for year-to-date growth. Year-to-date, hardware spending has grown 19% versus 2016 to $1.4 billion.”

However, older titles also performed well in June, including Grand Theft Auto V (#3), Overwatch (#9), and Minecraft (#17). 2015’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III (#12) even managed to outsell 2016’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (#15).

A complete look at the Top 20 for June 2017 can be found after the break. (more…)

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Tekken 7 will add Fatal Fury’s Geese Howard as a downloadable character this Winter

The fighters from Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 will soon be able to do battle with another crossover character, as the publisher announced that Geese Howard will be added to the game this Winter.

Geese Howard made his debut in 1991’s Fatal Fury as the final boss, and would go on to appear in more than a dozen games in the combined Fatal Fury/Art of Fighting/King of Fighters series including Fatal Fury Special, Art of Fighting 2, and the recently released King of Fighters XIV.

Tekken 7 is currently available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and you can get a glimpse Geese Howard in his Tekken guise in the trailer embedded above.

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Bandai Namco concludes their retro-inspired retelling of the Tekken franchise

In case you missed it, Bandai Namco unveiled Part 2 of their “Tekken Retro Recap” a few days ago. Produced in cooperation with 8-Bit Cinema, this concluding chapter retells the ridiculous stories behind Tekken 4, Tekken 5, and Tekken 6 in a classic pixelated style.

Also, Kazuya refers to Jin as an “Emo Devil Child.” So it’s got that going for it.

The newest game in the franchise, Tekken 7, was released earlier this week for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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