Namco Hakata Bus Terminal Tournament Fest & Tekken Emperor Match Videos

MASTERCUP has uploaded a series of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 videos from the recent tournament this past weekend inside Namco's Hakata Bus Terminal arcade which is in the Kyushu Region of Japan. Alongside the tournament videos, there's also the Tekken Emperor deathmatch videos between Mattari (Eddy/Ogre) up against the Tekken Emperor ranked player: Jigoku no Monban (Kazuya/Jinpachi - name literally means 'Hell's gatekeeper') that occurred right after the tournament. You can watch the archives of the tournament and Tekken Emperor match up on MASTERCUP's YouTube channel.

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TTT2 - Japanese Tournament, Kumites & Online Ranked Matches ft. Kuro Kuro & Knee Archives

There was a suprising amount of Tekken going on this past weekend. First off, Kuro Kuro & Shana (both Japanese players) visited Korea to interview Korean players for the Tekken Mura website and play some Tekken. Kuro Kuro went to Knee's house to stream online Ranked matches with him onto his niconico community page. Secondly, Nobi and BKC went to the Oita prefecture in Fukuoka for a kumite event as well as a random 2on2 tournament inside the Amusement Spot arcade. Lastly, Namco held a Kumite event in Osaka, Japan featuring the recent Ranking Battle winner Amigo as well as Osaka's own Burimaru and Matador. This was all streamed on niconico but for those who don't have premium accounts, I've got it all archived on YouTube below.

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Rise of Incarnates: Bandai Namco's New F2P, PC Only, 2v2, 3D Fighting Game

UPDATE: GameInformer wrote a insightful article on the game that's well worth reading. You can read it over here.

Well I guess we can now cross off one of the games Katsuhiro Harada wanted to announce this year as a game he was working on. Rise of Incarnates is as the title described, a new Free-to-play fighting game that's exclusive to the PC platform and features 2v2 battles in a 3D Plane. The announcement of the game came with details including that this new game is being made by the creators of TEKKEN, SOUL CALIBUR and Gundam EXVS Series of games. Bandai Namco have released a large batch of media out there for this game that describes and shows of more of this game which should be to see more of in the future.

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The Decline of Fighting Games on Consoles in Japan

This isn't directly Tekken related but I felt this was a fascinating compilation of info that deserves to be shared and spread. GamesCharts.fr posted an article last month graphing the sales of respective fighting games throughout the years and the results are flabberghasting.

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Bandai Namco: Unauthorised Logins Detected, Urges Users to Change Passwords

Bandai Namco recently sent out a notice on the ID Portal section of their site detailing that they've found quite a large number of unauthorized login cases onto their BN ID website. For those unaware, your BN ID account can be linked to a Banapassport card you may have used on a Namco arcade game such as TTT2 or Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4. The notice details that these logins occurred between the 23rd of September til the 26th and what kind of customer data within the BN ID accounts that may have been unlawfully accessed. Following this notice is a website in which you can confirm whether or not you're account may have been accessed and a recommendation for you to change your password used on the site as well as any other websites you use that may have the same password. You can read the notices below in full.

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