The Art of Tekken: A Complete Visual History Hard Cover Artbook Coming October 30th

A new hard cover artbook for the Tekken series has been revealed to be coming out on October 30th via an Amazon store page listing. The description for the artbook details a huge 250 pages filled with Tekken concept art, developer insights/interviews and the Tekken series' entire history and lore up to the latest game of Tekken 7. It's being published by Dynamite Entertainment with Nick Hurwitch as the author and pre-orders for The Art of Tekken is now open for $40 on the US Amazon store page. Thanks goes to jdevil for the tip.

The Art of Tekken on Amazon ≫ https://www.amazon.com/Art-Tekken-Complete-Visual-History/dp/1524107735

Core-A Gaming's Interview with Qudans & Jeondding

A great and enlightening video interview featuring both Qudans and Jeondding from Korea has come forward from Core-A Gaming. Gerald Lee sits down with both players to find out about their beginnings with Tekken and how they got to where they are now. The interview here make for a nice retrospective piece on these legends as they stroll down memory lane to some notable highlights in Tekken tournaments. You can check out the new interview over on Core-A Gaming's YouTube page:

Core-A Gaming ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7njg__VOy3n-SvXemDHvg

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Online Support for Arcade Tekken Tag Tournament 2 to End on March 29

A service closure notice was posted on the Tekken-Official website detailing that the online support for the arcade version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited is to be shut down on March 29, 2018. The online network for TTT2 in arcades is the Tekken-net service which allows players to use and see their play data on banapass cards which can be used on the machines. Those features as well as player replays and ghost data will no longer be accessible on the cabinets and the Tag 2 live monitor come this end of March. For those places that still operate TTT2 Unlimited, an update titled 'Ver.I01' will be available for the machine after the Tekken-net service closure that will allow the machine to be played in only an offline setting with VS Mode & CPU mode. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was first available in arcades back in the year 2011 and Bandai Namco has been keeping the Tekken-net service online for all that time so they wish to thank everyone for playing and enjoying Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited. You can find the Tekken-net service closure for Tag 2 announcement here:

Arcade TTT2 Unlimited Online Service Closure ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=7824

Team Spiritzero Interview with Echo Fox's JDCR & Saint

Last month, Team Spiritzero got the chance to sit down with Echo Fox's Tekken players JDCR and Saint for a really long interview detailling many topics. Since it was Korean interview though, most people may have missed out on tuning in and listening to what JDCR and Saint had to say but thanks to Genericremix on reddit, he tooks the time to translate and transcribe the entire interview into an online document you can read. This is really extensive work with the interview time going over 3 hours so major thanks goes out to that guy for the great job. Added below here is a small snippet about JDCR's Tekken character choices and the twitch archive but feel free to read the entire interview over here:

JDCR/Saint Interview Document ≫ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IdGVs8v2mt9Tg4eEhyqPoaqR81EUo409uxXUJV5yQk/edit?usp=sharing

Genericremix's r/kappa thread ≫ https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/6lb3tn/6212017_team_spiritzero_interview_with_echo_fox/

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Aris on What It Takes To Be Good at Tekken

[UPDATE #2] A YouTube video of the discussion is now up on the ATP YouTube channel! All the laggy Twitch embeds below have now been replaced.

[UPDATE] Thanks to Necromancy Black, a complete written video transcription of this Tekken talk has now been added to this piece for those who prefer to read it!

This segment of a Tekken discussion with the chatroom comes in the form of a Twitch Clip chain so forgive the segmented formatting. If you're interested in more ATP stream content, you can follow the channel over here:

Avoiding The Puddle ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/avoidingthepuddle

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