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Some say the PSP is failure compared to the DS. Would a failure have sold over 71 million consoles worldwide? Would a failure have some of the best handheld RPGS a gamer could get? The PSP is still one of the better portable media and region free gaming devices on the market and best of all, its so affordable.
The Evolution Championship Series is an annual video game tournament that focuses exclusively on fighting games. In fighting game communities it is commonly referred to as "Evo", and is currently the premier video game tournament for fighting games in the United States. As with Super Battle Opera, the Evolution tournaments are so well known that typically contestants will travel from all over the world to participate, most notably Japan.
The Evolution Championship Series aka. the world championships of fighting games starts today and will run through July 31st. So if you are interested in Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Tekken or any other fighter check out the streams!
The primary stream will also be shown on Playstation Home.
"Amazon continues to be a great source of discount gaming merchandise for the patient gamer. Every day Amazon offers an incredible deal on one video game, but Amazon also has video game deals of the week and great trade-in offers. Today’s video game sale of the day is one kick-butt bundle that you’re not going to want to miss."
A brief look at some of the top fighters of the current console generation. A satirical Top 5, from fighting game enthusiast Friar, coming from gaming website: cliffyb3.com
Microsoft today revealed that seven new games will be joining the Platinum Collection lineup, the equivalent to Platinum Hits from North America, in Japan.
Do you love the Tekken series? Do you wish you could watch a movie full of those beautiful cut-scenes? Check out the full story to hear how this video game franchise is coming to you later this year.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has revealed that four new games are being added to the “Playstation 3 the Best” lineup, which is the equivalent to Greatest Hits in North America.
Namco is hard at work on a new baseball game called Pro Baseball Famista 2011, and it features an interesting array of bonus characters from Tekken and Soul Calibur. Find out who here!
"Tekken director and chief producer Katsuhiro Harada teases of a Saturday TGS announcement over twitter. What could it be? Let’s look at the tweet and try to find out:"
The critically acclaimed (yeah, right) Tekken movie adaptation will finally see the light of day in the US, but not until 2011 and only on DVD. The film has been picked up by Anchor Bay, who will no doubt roll out an elaborate campaign for it. (Uh huh.)
"The next E3 is just around the corner. But before the innovation (3DS) and excitement (new Natal and PS Move games) begins, join me as I look back on this impeccable event and rank the show’s past five years."
"This predicament is similar to that of strippers or counter-strike. If only Kim Ha Yul or Han Ga Eun dressed up as Alisa or Lili, then maybe they would get more attention
I’m sure a quote from the article would describe the situation, “it was impossible to put an attention of those hopeless men off. The game was drawing to a close and the ladies were sweating as much as they could, but the eyes of the tough players were nailed to the screens tight.”"
"After seeing someone sneekily dump an emulated version of Street Fighter II Turbo onto the servers of the draconian office we were in, I couldn’t help but write and discuss our Top 10 Fighting Characters we believe are the very best to be created to date."
"Gaming has seen some of its peaks in the past few years with some games bringing something new and revolutionary to the player. However some games have also shown us that fashion is a concept which is slightly overlooked and this has resulted in some of gaming’s most notorious fashion crimes. Here are our top 5 Fashion Crime of Gaming."
For Reward Zone Members (membership is free and you can sign up on the website), Best Buy is offering $5 to $20 printable coupons on select video games for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Games eligible for 2/15 through 2/28 discounts include Brutal Legend, Tekken 6, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and may more. Please note that printable coupons only work in Best Buy store and not online.
"A patch will be available soon, allowing two players to tackle the scenario campaign via online play. Not only will you be able to trade in your AI partner for an independent sidekick, but voice chat will also be available. Lastly, Mokujin’s fighting style will change with every round. As those who have already played Tekken 6 will know, this update is exactly what the game needs to crawl out of critic's bad books."
Tekken 6 Limited Edition Bundle for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 is on sale at Amazon for $78 and $70, respectively. That's half off from retail price of $150. Tekken 6 Limited Edition Bundle includes Tekken 6, the game, wireless fight stick, and collectible art book.
From the popular Starcraft tournaments to the broadcast Xbox Live competitions to a show dedicated solely to Mario Kart DS, it's no secret that South Korea love their games.
A recent Tekken 6 tournament was held in Korea and it was a big event, presented by popular model Han Ga Eun and broadcast across the country. It was treated like a professional sport.
It'd certainly be interesting if game tournaments were THIS popular over here in the West.
All Age Gaming's Ian Crane brings us 10 things that gamers may like for Xmas but probably wouldn't normally think of as they are not your traditional games, controllers or home theatre gadgets that us gamers normally would think we want.
Amazon has posted their list of "Cyber Monday" deals and while many of them are repeats from Black Friday, there's still plenty of deals to be had. Some of the games on sale include Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Need For Speed: Shift, The Beatles: Rock Band, WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010, a great deal on Tekken 6 and discounts on every recent Guitar Hero title.
"Thanksgiving is here and that means one thing for retailers and bargain hunters, "Black Friday" is tomorrow. But rather than wake up at 2 AM or 3 AM or even earlier, Amazon has the perfect solution. Shop for deals from your pajamas a day early. Yes, Amazon has posted their Black Friday deals a day early. With more deals to be added tomorrow."
"Ah, marriage. Once a gamer friend, Mr. or Mrs. Couple has now been tied in the bounds of matrimony and you are wondering if you should still get them the same types of games as in years past. Or, maybe, you are married to a non-gamer and are looking for a way to bring them into gaming this holiday season. Also, avid gamers marry other avid gamers and buying a gaming present for a love that has the same interests as yourself can be difficult. Never fear because Spawn Kill’s Holiday Gift Guide ..."
Icrontic's weekly video podcaster CB Droege covers his interesting picks for the new releases in gaming. Featured releases this week include Puzzlegeddon, Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy, Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and his spotlight release—King Arthur.
On Thursday Namco Bandai will release a new patch for Tekken 6 that is set to offer some improvements. Most notably these improvements are for the online component of the game. Apart from improved input response, the patch is supposed to further fix the online lag issues and help out players in ranked matches by finding matches according to priorities and canceling out of matches if the opponent's connection is poor.
"To begin with, Tekken 6 has a campaign mode just for you soloists, and it is downright awful. Depending on your specified gender, you’ll take control of either Lars (a soldier in the Tekken Force) or Alisa (an android created by Yoshimitsu’s friend Dr Boskonovitch) and begin your quest to recover Lars’ memories. That’s right, after a pitched battle at the beginning of the story, Lars has *gasp* … AMNESIA!"
"Technically, Namco Bandai already released downloadable content for Tekken 6. The limited edition came with a cardboard samurai costume for Yoshimitsu. Beyond that, Namco Bandai will probably release more downloadable content and unlike all of those Tales of Vesperia school outfits future Tekken 6 content will be free.
When asked about additional downloadable content, Katsuhiro Harada, Producer, told PlayStation Europe, “There is a strong possibility we will. However, even if we were to do..."
"Debuting for the first time on the Xbox console family, the Tekken franchise has delivered a quality fighter in Tekken 6. Focusing once again on the King of the Iron Fist tournament, Tekken 6 delivers robust offline modes and adequate online options. Fighting fans that haven’t experienced the technical aspects of the popular fighting series should welcome it with open-arms as the graphics, gameplay and longevity are areas that the title excels in. Before jumping deep into the review, I must a..."
"With Black Friday fast approaching, this week's new releases have slowed down considerably. But with the vast majority of the Fall's biggest titles already in stores, there's still a few gems among this week's crop.
For example, Namco Bandai's Tekken fighting franchise finally comes to the PSP with Tekken 6. And Jenny McCarthy gets into the Wii exercise craze with her game Your Shape.
Party games are well represented this as well as Konami is bringing a new version of their famed Kara..."
All Age Gaming's Phong Nguyen bring's us the 17th AAG "The Week That Was". This week he discusses Wii HD, Wii Sports sales, the proposed absent of private chat in Xbox 360 games, PlayTV and more!
"Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions compared with the game running installed on the hard drive as well as running off the actual disk. When the game is installed on the hardware, there isn't that big of a difference between the PS3 and the Xbox 360 — the Xbox 360 is slightly fast by a few seconds, but no biggie.
However, according to Gemaga, it takes over thirty seconds (33 seconds, to be exact) to change a character and change a stage running the actual game disc on the PS3, compared with ..."
"One of the only fighting games I've ever bothered to try and deeply understand outside of Street Fighter is Tekken. There's something about the mechanics, and ability to button tap control each limb, that I love.
While Tekken 6 hit Japanese arcades in 2007 and 2008, those of us without a booming arcade scene have had to patiently wait. For those of you who only own an Xbox 360, the wait has been even longer. Was it worth it? Let's see."
"Namco Bandai Games Europe has announced that over 2.5 million copies of Tekken 6 have been shipped to Europe and Pal regions for PlayStation 3 and XboX360 gaming systems. In this occasion Bandai has opened the newest King of Iron Fist Tournament to all comers on 30th October 2009.
The shipped copies are of three kinds: standard retail, Arcade Stick and Limited edition; all of them will bring the biggest character line up in the history of the series, a brand-new Scenario Campaign mode, spe..."
Haven't seen the Tekken anime yet? Don't worry, you're not missing much. Youtube user theswitcher has put together some hilarious quotes from the dreadful Tekken anime...
"Namco Bandai Games have today announced an exciting line-up of titles to be exhibited over three stands at the MCM Expo in Docklands Excel Arena over the weekend of the 24th-25th October. Amongst them will be the eagerly anticipated Massively Multi-player Online (MMO) game, Star Trek Online with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and Ghostbusters: The Video Game along with a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest winning streak on the imminent Tekken 6, set to launch on Microsof..."
"It's always pretty interesting to see how games are marketed. Sometimes things are kept pretty straightforward with standard commercials featuring game footage or a brief comedic sketch of some sort. Other times a game may be marketed heavily through an ARG game such as the ones used for Halo and Resistance. Namco Bandai seems to want to keep things simple and cater to their audience when it comes to Tekken 6 as the latest installment of their "What Will You Fight For?" video campaign featur..."
"The Next King of Iron Fist Tournament is Ready to Commence as Tekken 6 Has Gone Gold
Blockbuster franchise is set to come out swinging with intense brawls and exciting online features.
October 9, 2009 – SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The wait is almost over as NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced today that TEKKEN 6 has gone gold for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Available on October 27 at retailers nationw..."
All Age Gaming's Ian Crane previews the Namco Bandai's upcoming fighter Tekken 6 in an unusual manner: going to Japan and playing it in the Arcades!! Read on for his full preview.
"UK retailer GAME has revealed an exclusive pre-order promotion for the highly-anticipated Tekken 6, set to be published in Europe by ATARI. Due to be released on October 30th on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Tekken 6 marks not only the arrival of the series on the Current-Generation of consoles, but also the first time the Tekken series has been released across multiple home consoles."
"As the grand opening of this year’s London Games Festival, London MCM Expo was always going to be knee-deep in sweet gaming goodness, giving visitors hands-on experience with upcoming epic titles such as Bandai Namco’s Tekken 6, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II and Monster Hunter Tri from Capcom. Now three more top developers give you a sneak peek at what they’ve got planned for October’s Expo."
Following on from our Top 5 Xbox 360 list, All Age Gaming's John Elliott looks at the tough decision that PS3 owners face over the next few months in what game(s) to purchase by giving us his Top 5 games to get for the Playstation 3 this holiday season.
"London MCM Expo is set to provide the grand opening for this year’s London Games Festival, the capital’s celebration of the best in videogame culture. Held at Excel on 24th-25th October, the Expo will be a gamers’ feast, with top developers from across the globe giving visitors hands-on experience with the hottest new games as well as sneak peeks at their latest projects – often months in advance of their official release."
"Eurogamer has announced that twelve of the games industry's biggest publishers have signed up for this year’s Eurogamer Expo. Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft will all bring playable games to the event, along with Eidos, SEGA, Capcom, Konami, 2K Games, Bethesda, Namco Bandai and Deep Silver."
"People dressing up like their favorite game character has been around for years now. At big game shows such as ComicCon, E3, Tokyo Game Show and other various conventions you will find people dressed up as their or your favorite game characters. Often times you can’t help it but start staring or drooling at some costumes you may see around the convention."
Jin isn't the only one to be getting a costume designed by the likes of CLAMP. Newcomers Lars and Zafina will both be getting alternate costumes created by other manga artists. Mutsumi Inomata, known for his work on the Tales games, will be designing Zafina's butterfly costume, although this has been known for a while. However, the new reveal shows Lars' costume, which is desgined by Naruto creator, Masashi Kishimoto. It's certainly different, to say the least.
A while ago it was announced that Manga Artists CLAMP Will Design Tekken 6 Costumes. Here is a closer look at Jin's new costume. Go to the source for all the new images.
Discuss in the Tekken 6 forum
"NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe today announced two official limited editions of Tekken 6, produced by the development team in Japan, the Arcade Stick Edition and Collectors Edition, in addition to the standalone game for the upcoming release of the ultimate fighter Tekken 6. Scheduled for release in Europe this autumn for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3), all three retail editions will be available for both platforms at launch."
New information has been revealed on the pre-order bonuses and the bundles accompanying the release of Tekken 6. The Yoshimitsu Cardboard Tube Samurai alternate costume picture that's been circling around since it was revealed a couple of days ago can be obtained as a pre-order bonus from Gamestop. Along with the costume, the pre-order bonus will also have samurai battle banners to customize your characters in-game. But they don't stop there. They're also throwing in a Tekken 6 calendar.
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"The full details of the latest selection of characters revealed for Tekken 6 follows below, and be sure to check back at Electronic Theatre for more details on Tekken 6 coming soon."
Tekken 6 has become the ultimate fighting franchise. Consistently adding characters, new gameplay styles, and environments this game has easily surpassed the work from Sega's virtua fighter. Now Namco is taking it to another level so with the possibility of Creating your own fighter from scratch check the article for more info
Here's some news that is bound to tickle the fancy of many anime and manga fans. Popular manga artists CLAMP will be designing some of the costumes for Tekken 6. Pictured is one of their costume designs for Jin.
Discuss in the Tekken 6 forum
"June 2009:
* Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again (DSi) - 6/8/09 ♦
* PROTOTYPE - 6/9/09 ♦ ♦ ♦
* EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis - 6/10/09 ♦ ♦ ♦
* Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 - 6/10/09 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
* The Conduit - 6/23/09 ♦
* Fight Night Round 4 - 6/25/09 ♦ ♦
* Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - 6/30/09 ♦ ♦ ♦
* Mushroom Wars - 6/30/09 ♦
July 2009:
* Hannah Montana PSP bundle ♦
* NCAA Football 10 - 7/14/09 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
* Unbound Saga - 7/16/09 ♦
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"NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. have revealed details on the new Scenario Campaign mode included in Tekken 6, the latest entry to the widely appreciated Beat-'Em-Up series. The new mode, available in both the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 versions of Tekken 6 will allow players to participate in single-player or two-player online co-operative campaigns while experiencing intense action and large-scale battles."
Fans of hand-held consoles will be pleased to hear this news. Tekken 6 and Soul Calibur are coming to the Playstation Portable.
Both games will have multiplayer support and heavy character customization. The Soul Calibur game is very similar to SCIV, but won't be a direct port.
"Namco Bandai has so far released character renders for 20 of Tekken 6's fighters for us to use, less than half of the arcade lineup. So we'll likely have more character artwork for you to download before the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions ship later this year."
"The latest videogames set to take UK by storm this summer will be playable at the event, including Tekken 6, Ghostbusters and Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce, and many more from some of the most respected publishers in the industry; Capcom, Atari, KOEI, Ankama, Eidos and Rising Star Games. Plus, check out the latest releases in the world of anime and manga, make new friends at the various multiplayer areas for PlayStation Potables owners as well as for card-based games like Magic the Gathering ..."
"The latest screens for Tekken 6 come complete with a convenient fact sheet detailing what some of your favourite characters have been up to since the last King of Iron Fist Tournament.
I find it rather funny that Namco Bandai felt we needed a quick reference to know what characters like Nina Williams, Hwoarang, and Christie Monteiro are doing getting involved in the l6th King of Iron Fist tournament, seeing as their motivations hardly change that much from game to game. Christie is looking..."
"ATARI have released a host of information on the character line-up scheduled to be included in NAMCO BANDAIs forthcoming Tekken 6, on PLAYSTATION3 and Xbox360. Below follows details of a handful of the included characters, and a short description of their background:"
"With a franchise total of 32 million units sold, Tekken is definitely a fighting game series to be reckoned with. And now that we all know this, lets get to the point of this news post: New screen-cracking screenshots for everyone to see."
"New Tekken 6 footage that doesnt show off much gameplay but shows off enough to get gamers geeked up for a newest iteration in the Tekken franchise. The game isnt due out until Fall for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but at least now you know what to look forward to when Autumn rolls around."
"GameSpot: How is the development process going?
Katsuhiro Harada: It's going smoothly so far. When we developed the latest arcade installment, we added post-processing effects and animation blur while maintaining 60 frames, which really sets it apart from other games. As such, we've managed to harness most of the machine power. Of course, the same high quality will be maintained when the game makes its way to consoles. We have a lot more content planned this time than past console iteratio..."
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It's no denying many PS exclusives have hit the bandwaggon of multiplatform, even the highly regarded fighting game Tekken 6 part take this move. Namco responded to the reasons why this PS exclusive went multiplatform. It appeared many fans of the series that moved to the 360, expressed their interest in the title and cried out for Namco to turn this into multiplatform to play it. And you can't deny the numbers of the 360 in 3 years, even the most die hard PS fanboys. Acknowledging the number...
"NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe gets working on its combos in preparation for the next instalment in the ultimate fighting franchise TEKKEN 6, scheduled for release in Europe through its distribution partnership with Infogrames Entertainment in autumn 2009 for the Xbox360 and PLAYSTATION3..."
"Impress Game Watch has unveiled the first batch of Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion screen shots from the upcoming Fall 2009 console release for both the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360. They also posted up a short trailer for T6BR."
Well, IGN has a lot to say about Tekken 6, it's stunning realism and uncompromising quality included, but one thing in particular they say is quickly got over with and brushed away, probably because their hearts couldn't bare the burden of saying it again. Yep, read the quote.
One more painful, agonising, tearful year waiting for Tekken 6.
I'm just going to go cry in the corner...
At their conference at the Tokyo Game Show starting today, Microsoft has announced some games headed their way to the Xbox 360:
In a special press conference that was held yesterday, Namco Bandai announced that the original version of Tekken 6 that was released at late 2007, will not reach the consoles, but the newer version named 'Bloodline Rebellion' will, and will have more content than it's arcade version!
Here is the debut trailer showing the update to Tekken 6, entitled Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion. We get our first glimpse of the new stages, items, customizations and the two new characters Alisa Boskonovich and Lars Alexanderson ...
The Bloodline Rebellion update has only been announced for the arcades. There is currently no news on whether this will hit console versions.
Discuss in the Tekken 6 forum
The 46th Amusement Machine Show is underway in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo over in Japan, showcasing the latest hot new upcoming arcade games gunning for a Japanese arcade near you. Famitsu has some pictures and screenshots of the games from the first day of the event, ready for perusal over at the source.
Games featured in article:
"Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion has been announced! It will be officially shown at the upcoming Amusement Show from September 18 - 20 in Tokyo, Japan! It will be an upgraded version of the existing Tekken 6 game and is slated for an arcade release in December! Apparently, arcade operators in Japan have gotten the heads up about this new version of Tekken 6, so if you havent heard about it yet, you will soon!"
Last year it was confirmed that a Tekken movie was in the works, and that Dwight H. Little will be directing the game-to-movie adaptation. Fans waited for months for more info, but little else was revealed.
Well finally some images of the Tekken movie have been released today.
The first image shows world-champion martial arts fighter Cung Le as Marshall Law.
The second image shows actor and martial arts expert Jonathan Foo as Jin Kazama.
(Check out these vids videos showing Foo and L...
"TOKYO--At the PlayStation Premiere 2007 press conference held in Roppongi Hills yesterday, major Japanese game publishers announced the latest status on the development of their PlayStation 3 titles, and also unveiled a few new games that weren't shown at last week's E3 Media & Business Summit in California."
"Historically, the online universe isn't a popular place for fighting games. However, with Virtua Fighter 5 going online for the Xbox 360, it seems Namco Bandai's competing PS3 fighter, Tekken 6, needed to step up and equal the announcement. And...that's exactly what they did at yesterday's PlayStation Premier event in Tokyo.
According to Impress Watch, the publisher revealed that - much like Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection Online - Tekken 6 will indeed feature online play. Furthermore, it's onl..."
"Three new characters have been confirmed for Tekken 6 along with a host of returning fighters, making this cast the largest in the series' history. Tekken 6 is heading to PS3 and arcade by the end of the year, and rumors say it will be released for Xbox 360 as well."
"New tidbits from the latest issue of Arcadia Magazine indicate a massive overhaul for many of the older characters in Tekken 6. Among the main highlights of the article were:
* Animations have been changed for every character!
* All characters have an item move, like the Bryan shotgun we saw at the AOU trailer. Although not all of them will have the same effectiveness.
* An example of an item move will be Anna throwing her high heels at her opponents.
* Harada offic..."
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