Katsuhiro Harada & Michael Murray Interview at Final Round 19

Final Round 19 took place last month and it was the first available play-test for the upcoming Fated Retribution expansion to Tekken 7. It was also announced at the event that Bandai Namco Entertainment America is organizing a Tekken Tour that will see the game being available to play at multiple tournaments throughout the year in the North America region featuring cash prizes. (Note: full details for the Tekken tour have yet to appear.) With that, all the Tekken 7 action throughout all participating tournaments have been organized and archived into the official BNEA's Fight Channel. The latest upload from the channel includes a video interview with Tekken project lead Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray from Final Round 19 as they both share their thoughts and hints on what's to come regarding the title. Give it a watch and if you're interested, you can catch up on past Tekken Tour / Wizard World event archives up on the channel.

BNEA Official Fight Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKHx_yf3dI2ajWAjXRJ_9Rw

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Tekken 7 FR - Heihachi's New Default Costume Images

Just unveiled on the official Tekken website! That April Fools image of Heihachi on the CASH.COM website turned out to be real. Crazy. Heihachi will be rocking this outfit as his new default outfit in the expansion to Tekken 7 called Fated Retribution. Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is coming out to arcades during the summer of Japan and will be playable at EVO 2016 later this year.

Tekken Official ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=3925

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Final Round 19 | Fighting Game Tournament in Atlanta on March 18 - 20

Taking place this weekend in Atlanta, GA is the Final Round 19 tournament, home to the east coast USA's largest gathering of Tekken competition. For this year, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 7.0 will be having tournaments at the event while also having some Tekken 7 Fated Retribution cabinets available for play-testing for those attending. You can catch all the Tekken action live via the 645, TeamSpooky & TEKKEN Twitch channels respectively. For those on social media, the event's dedicated hashtag is #FR19.

Sixfortyfive ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/sixfortyfive

TeamSpooky ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky

TEKKEN ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/tekken

Tekken Pools Document (Includes Schedule) ≫ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UKxZFK8A5mq4rCYv3AcGwwZaoHCRhxBsGtaFjEMoCr4/edit?usp=sharing

FINAL ROUND 19 ≫ http://finalround.org/

Korean Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Location Tests on February 26 - 28

[Update] The Tekken 7 Fated Retribution location testing starts today! On the 26 to 27 of Feb, Green Arcade and the Royal arcade in Daegu will have the game and start letting people play it. Then on the 28th, the E-stadium PC Bang in Busan will then receive the game for play testing. If you happen to be in those areas, check it out.

Announced via the Korean Tekken-net website is that Korea will be conducting location tests for Tekken 7 Fated Retribution on February 26 to 28. The announcement is really brief and does not include any other details apart from the date so the remaining part of the announcement post mentions that further information on the upcoming Korean location tests are to come in the near future. Should you happen to be in Korea, this will be the opportunity to get your hands on and try the new update to Tekken 7. For everyone else, hopefully Green Arcade gets their hands on the game and gives us a stream soon.

KR Tekken-net T7FR Location Tests ≫ http://tk7.tekken-net.kr/community/notice?type=2&seq=218

Nobi VS Tokido Exhibition Match at Japan Amusement Expo 2016

Tekken 7 Assistant Producer Nakatsu tweeted recently that the Japan Amusement Expo show this weekend is going to hold an Exhibition Match during a Bandai Namco stage show. The Tekken 7 2015 world champion: Nobi will face off against the Murderface Tokido in the latest version of Tekken 7 Fated Retribution live on stage. The exhibition match will be taking place on the public day of JAEPO2016 starting at 10:40 AM Japan time on February 20th. Additionally, the stage show will focus on the new characters and systems featured in Tekken 7 Fated Retribution and showcase new activity from the Tekken Girls' Club which is a cosplaying Tekken group that any girl can join. There's also potential for news on Tekken 7 Fated Retribution to be revealed from the event making it one not to miss. No word yet on a Twitch stream of the Bandai Namco stage show at JAEPO but the niconico stream has been set-up and will be going live on the 20th.

niconico Stream URL ≫ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv252202963

Bandai Namco JAEPO Stage Show ≫ http://bandainamcoent.co.jp/am/event/jaepo2016/#/sell

JAEPO 2016 Details ≫ http://www.avoidingthepuddle.com/news/2016/2/9/tekken-7-fated-retribution-playable-at-japan-amusement-expo.html