SANTA CLARA, Calif., (Jan. 12, 2010) – NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., today announced that players can expect to download the free TEKKEN® 6 online co-op update on January 18 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Now for the first time in the TEKKEN series, players can join a friend online and fight side-by-side for some serious iron fist brawling.

Previously playable only as an offline single player mode with an AI companion, TEKKEN 6’s Scenario Campaign mode now let’s two players come together online and power their way through numerous stages. Use voice chat to work together strategically and beat down vicious opponents and their legions of minions. To keep the fires of competition in the forefront, a co-op leaderboard will be implemented so players can size up their skills against the best in the world.

This update will also include the following refinement:
· Improved Mokujin AI – In online versus mode, Mokujin’s fighting style changes with every round

Patch is Live, go go go. Actually from what I’ve been reading, it is having epic lag issues, so probably expect some more updates in the not so distant future.

Following the series of brutal TEKKEN 6 tournament events held across Europe and Australia since October, finalists flew in to London from as far afield as Australia, Greece, Switzerland, Netherland, Belgium, Italy, Israel, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Finland, France and UK to take on the best of the best in the regional final.

In the end it was Norman ‘GenN1us’ Chatrier from France who swept the international competition aside to snatch victory in a white knuckle contest which tested the speed and skill of some of the world’s best TEKKEN 6 fighters. The top ranked players from each tournament including London final will be flying to Japan in 2010 for the grand final to determine the world’s #1 TEKKEN god.

Everyone can feel the thrill of ferocious one-on-one TEKKEN 6 tournament competition with online versus play via PlayStation®Network and Xbox Live®. Download the free update to ensure the optimum online performance and gameplay experience against the best fighters from every corner of the globe.

Tekken: Dark Resurrection was not only the best fighter to ever hit the PlayStation Portable, it is still considered one of the top games to hit Sony’s portable.

The arrival of Tekken 6 on the PSP could only mean great things, right?

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Graphics: The PSP version of Tekken 6 is a surprisingly attractive game. The portable version does cut a few corners, for instance there’s no option to turn on blur, but overall it’s a sharply detailed game.

Controls: With four face buttons and two shoulder buttons and a snappy directional pad, the PSP is a perfect match for the Tekken series. Each face button controls a limb of your fighter and the heavy reliance on single direction controls for special moves makes pulling off attacks on the PSP a breeze.

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Gothenburg Sweden 30 Nov 2009 – Craft Animations is extremely proud to announce that NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. (NBGI) has used Craft Director Studio to generate the animated sequences in NBGI’s newly-released TEKKEN™6. With over 2.5 million units on the market, users will greatly benefit from the vehicle and camera animations in the scenario campaign mode of the game which have been created using Craft Director Studio.

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Tekken 6 Samurai DLC Pack (free)
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The killer stocking filler is on its way as NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe announces that development is complete on TEKKEN™6 for PSP, with the game hitting retailers across EMEA and PAL Asia on 11th December. Containing all the bone-crushing, over-the-top excitement of its big brothers released on Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 in October, plus ad-hoc wi-fi versus battling, TEKKEN 6 for PSP lets players fight for the status of TEKKEN god whenever and wherever they choose.

In addition to containing all 18 battle stages and 40 playable characters in the home console version of TEKKEN 6, the PSP game also supports ad-hoc multiplayer versus battles fought across four additional stages. Battle modes include Arcade, Story, Ghost, Challenge and Practice, while the ad-hoc wi-fi features include the ability to send and receive ghost data allowing fights against opponents’ characters even when not connected with them.

NAMCO BANDAI Games today released further details about the forthcoming free downloadable update designed to improve the online game experience for players of TEKKEN™6 on Xbox 360™ and PlayStation®3. The update is scheduled for release on 26th November.

The update is separate from the online co-op Scenario Campaign mode download which is scheduled for release separately this winter.

Online gameplay enhancements in the update include the following:

• Improved input response: improvement of the game’s responsiveness to button / command inputs;

• Selectable search priorities for ranked matches: players will be able to set search priorities for opponents in ranked matches based on comparable rank or connection quality as well as location;

• Optimized data transmission between fighters and spectators: fight data will be optimized in order to reduce the bandwidth load on the host’s console;

• Signal strength bars: the signal strength bar will reflect connection quality more accurately;

• Chance to cancel match: players will be able to cancel the match before it begins once the opponent’s signal strength has been displayed on ranked matches.

Article only talked about PS3 and PSP versions, so no news of any XBOX360 downloadable content (I want a Jin Hoodie for my avatar!). Nothing else groundbreaking was talked about in the interview, but it was still a fun read.

First impressions, it looks like a more “filled” version of tag. I haven’t played my copy of Tekken 5:DR for PSP in a while, but for some reason I want to say that this looks more fluid and less clunkier than Tekken 5:DR. Additionally, I want Gold Rush! Please tell me that it’s not in Tekken 6 console release, or I’ll look pretty stupid right about now.