Our pal Brian Ashcraft over at Kotaku has put together an amazing book that features the Japanese arcade gaming lifestyle. Brian did a ton of research and interviewed both arcade gamers and arcade developers ranging from the legendary Daigo Umehara to the living legend Yu Suzuki. That should give you an idea of how SERIOUS this book will be! Click below for more information on what to expect and where to buy a copy!
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Comic-Con 2008 is in the books! Thank you to everyone who helped out with the SD TEKKEN console gaming room! We’d like to also give a special thanks to Games On and Aksys Games for their generous sponsorship and support! Without great companies like them, we might not be able to bring the wonderful gaming experience at events like SDCC! Click below to check our full review of SD TEKKEN at this year’s Comic-Con!
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After having a few weeks of play time with Soulcalibur IV, we’ve finally compiled our thoughts and feelings about the latest tale of souls and swords… Our very own Masakun has put together a very comprehensive review of Soulcalibur IV, click below and check it out!
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Earlier this week, Hooters of Pacific Beach here in San Diego, held their regional trivia challenge just in time for the San Diego Comic-Con International. With over 25 teams at the event and a grueling round of trivia, SD TEKKEN came out on top and took home the top honors! The team consisted of fast_handsCODY, n8nmonster, and myself (MarkMan). We plan on defending our title next year! Thanks to all of our supporters that showed up.
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Those of you that will be attending Comic-Con International 2008 in San Diego later this week, make sure you stop by our SD TEKKEN Gaming Room in Rm. 17B at the event! There will be a ton of Tekken competition and get a chance to play some hot new titles that aren’t even out in stores yet! Get a chance to battle in Soul Calibur IV, Blaz Blue, Battle Fantasia, AND MORE! Don’t miss out!
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In addition to last week’s news of more Tekken 6 arcade machine locations in the US, this week we found out that two more arcades have Tekken 6 available for play! One at the New York New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and the other at New Roc City Fun House in New Rochelle, New York! The only bad news is that both locations have Tekken 6 up and running for $3.00 USD per play… Here are the details for each location:
New York New York Hotel and Casino
3790 Las Vegas Blvd.
South Las Vegas, Nevada
New Roc City Fun House
19 LeCount Place
New Rochelle, NY 10801
(914) 637-7575
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Special thanks to TimSozai for the heads up! Recently TimSozai, Max, and Cheng got a chance to interview one of the legends in the competitive Tekken scene, Qudans from South Korea! Qudans is currently serving mandatory national military service and has been away from the Tekken scene. During his time off he was nice enough to participate in an interview for Tekken fans. Click below for the full interview!
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San Diego Comic-Con International 2008 is just around the corner and SDTEKKEN will be there again with our 7th Annual Open Gaming Room! Happening July 24th-27th, we will be located in Room 17B on the Mezzanine Level of the San Diego Convention Center. This year’s featured titles include Super Smash Bros Brawl, Rock Band, Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection, and tons more.
Check out this year’s guide by clicking the following link:
Special thanks to Mist~Demon for the heads up! The US has been blessed with more and more Tekken 6 machines showing up, the latest sighting is at the Regency Mall in Racine, Wisconsin! This marks the first Tekken 6 machine in the middle Western area of the country. Here are all the details:
Paul’s Video Arcade
5564 Durand Ave
Racine, WI 53406
More information can be found here.
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Just this past week two big name arcades, Sunnyvale Golf Land and Milpitas Golf Land, both received Tekken 6 arcade machines! Now there are three Tekken 6 machines in California and bumps up the total number of T6 machines in the US to SIX! Here is the information for the newest arcade locations:
Sunnyvale Golfland / SVGL
855 E El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Milpitas Golfland / MGL
1199 Jacklin Rd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
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If you’ve been keeping up with the latest Street Fighter IV news you should know that the Japanese arcade release is slated for the middle of next month. What about North America? Well nothing concrete as of yet, but you can look forward to playing SFIV at San Diego Comic-Con International next month from July 24 – 27 at the Capcom booth! See you guys there!
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Capcom recently announced that their upcoming Street Fighter IV will see a release on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft and Windows based PCs. The granddaddy of the genre is finally back! The arcade release is still scheduled for July of this year with the console release date showing up on GameStop’s site as February 2009. Looks like we still have quite some time to wait! Click below for full press release and the latest trailer and screen shots!
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The latest issue of Tougeki Damashi Vol. 9 has two character tier ranking lists, one from Japan and one from Korea. The Korean Tekken 6 ranking list was provided by Tougeki 2007 finalist HelpMe while the Japanese ranking list was compiled by long time Tekken player Kenbou aka Tarechichiganryu. Click below for the full character tier lists!
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Thanks to the information provided on the Tekken Zaibatsu forums, word has it that a handful of TILT arcades have imported Tekken 6 from distributors in Asia! Houston, TX now has two Tekken 6 machines and Rhode Island gets one too! Here are the details for each machine:
The Galleria TILT
5015 Westheimer Road
Houston, TX 77081
$1.50 per game
Warick Mall TILT
400 Bald Hill Road
Warick, RI 02886
$1.50 per game
Where will Tekken 6 show up next?
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On May 6th Gamer’s Vision amusement center held a special Tekken 6 event where the two highest ranked players in Japan battled it out to crown the first “Tekken Lord” rank in Japan. Takeyama (Bob) from Tokyo battled fiercely vs Osaka’s Second Generation Mainstreet Ryu (Kazuya) in a series of high level matches until one would be promoted as Japan’s first Tekken Lord! Check out the series of vids (7 in all) at the link below!
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The Ant Commandos just dropped off their latest product to us, a PS2 to PS3 converter! While mainly marketed for use with guitar controllers and use with Rock Band & Guitar Hero III, we couldn’t help to test it out with Tekken and our weapons of choice… You know how much we love our arcade sticks, so we were itchin’ to test this new converter out with all of our games and arcade sticks! Check out our review of it below!
The Ant Commandos Universal PS2 To PS3 Converter Review
You can purchase the converter here.
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SOCAL has had Tekken 6 for a little over a week now… There are mixed feelings on the game as a whole, but one thing is for sure, Tekken 6 is fun! Check below for some impressions from Southern California players and some pictures and match vids as well!
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Play-Asia is running a special promotion where all orders placed before Monday, March 31st get discounted by 20%*! Now is a good time to pick up a Tougeki 2007 T5DR DVD or one of the new Dual Shock 3 controllers! Check out SD TEKKEN’s hot picks for this sale by clicking below!
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Tekken 6 is now in California! Super Arcade is now the second location in the United States to get their hands on an imported version of Tekken 6! Special thanks to all of the SOCAL scene for keeping the community in the loop on Tekken 6’s arrival! If you want to make it out to Super Arcade and try out Tekken 6… Here is the address:
Super Arcade
1211 N. Grand Ave
Walnut, CA 91748
MAP
The arcade is located right across the street from Mt. San Antonio College in the same plaza with Jack In The Box. Expect more information and impressions soon!
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Our good pal MrWizard just announced the latest game added to EVO2K8’s tournament lineup… Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection! With Tekken 6 nowhere in sight until late this year, EVO2K8 is moving onward this August with T5DR! EVO2K8 takes place at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. For the full game list and future announcements check out the site below…
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