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Tekken 6 Development Team Talk Some Iron Fist

Gametrailers has a fairly long interview with the Tekken 6 dev team as well as some video from the game. Whoever is running the show asks a lot of leading questions in favor of the Xbox 360. It seems like the guys don’t rise to the bait but you can’t get a good feel for their reactions since the producers used Iron Chef-style voiceovers for the interview to translate from Japanese. Whoever is reading the translations doesn’t bring the same joie de vivre that the actors used to give to Chairman Kaga’s judges. Just sayin’. Hit the jump for the video.
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Land Of The Rising Fail: Few Surprises Coming Out Of Tokyo Game Show

Today kicked off the Tokyo Game Show 2008 at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. It was an early rise this morning (6am…shudder) to make the trek from Shibuya to Chiba, since it takes about 70 minutes to make it to the convention center. In years past TGS held many surprises, major announcements, and loads of game debuts. However, so far this year seems completely different. Dare I say, could TGS 2008 be a major let down this year? Read the rest of this entry »

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Tekken To Sony Exclusivity: “It’s Not You Baby, It’s Me.”

Namco Bandai’s storied Tekken franchise could be following Final Fantasy out the door of Sony’s exclusivity yurt. That’s right, when I think of where Sony stores their exclusive contracts I envision a Mongol tent. A report by GameEX magazine quotes Tekken developer Haruki Suzaki on the subject of PS3 exclusivity for Heihachi Mishima and company, “No, it hasn’t been determined at this moment.” Tekken 6 should hit this holiday. Which systems it appears on is up for grabs. Say what you will about the “console wars.” With the life cycle of the current hardware going as far as eight years out, software is the real battleground for the big three.

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