Just in time for the end of Namco Bandai's second quarter, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 launched with an impressive 840,000 SKUs moved within the two week period of September. Realistically, the game has moved a lot more than that but we won't know for sure until Namco Bandai's third quarter results.

According to Siliconera, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 moved close to a million SKUs between September 11th and September 30th. The game had to face off against some stiff competition from Tecmo Koei's Dead or Alive 6, which also launched on the same day and date as Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Those numbers aren't too bad considering that Street Fighter X Tekken launched in March without much of any direct competition from other fighting games and managed to move 1.4 million units over the course of a few months. Will Namco be able to beat that? With the game's continued presence on the Xbox 360 and PS3, I don't doubt it, and it's likely to move a few hundred thousand units once Tekken Tag Tournament 2 launches with the Wii U later this month.

What's more is that Namco Bandai also cleaned up on their mobile releases as well as Soul Calibur V and Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, both of which have surpassed the one million mark in total units shipped. Very impressive.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 received the patch 1.03 update this week for both consoles in most regions. Harada confirmed on Twitter that all regions have now been updated and are able to download the patch upon launching the game.

This fixes a few glitches, removes "all" from the Saudi Arabia stage and has a ton of online improvements.
Changed “RANK MATCH” search conditions:
• Removed “Rank ±5 only”, added “Rank ±2 only”
• • By selecting “Rank ±3 preferred”, “Rank ±2 only”, or “Rank ±3 only”, it’s now easier to be matched with players near your rank.
• When setting a win limit in “PLAYER MATCH”, the player who reaches the win limit is now moved to the end of the match queue.
• When entering the WORLD ARENA lobby, the period for the next TOURNAMENT is displayed. (Not displayed during an active TOURNAMENT period)
• When requesting a free battle in WORLD ARENA, and when finding an opponent in RANDOM MATCH ZONE, a distinct alert noise sounds.
• When downloading replay data from TEKKEN CHANNEL and LEADERBOARDS, the download number is now displayed.

Changed the following in-game content:
• Adjusted Alisa and JACK-6 tag throw throw escape.
• Adjusted the behavior of Alisa’s “Hertz Blade Aegis” when used in an juggle combo.
• Changed the wall hit damage for P.JACK’s item move “Claw Crane” (u+1+4).
• Changed the behavior of Sebastian’s Stone Garden (d/b+4, b+1) when used during a Tag Assault.
• The use of "Allah" in the Saudi Arabia stage has presumably been removed.

During a pre-Tokyo Game Show event at Namco Bandai's headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Katsuhiro Harada the producer of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 demonstrated a few of the Wii U's touch screen cuts. Similar to how other games are such as Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Street Fighter X Tekken on the PS Vita or Super Street Fighter 4 on the 3DS where you tap the screen to get certain moves to come out.

Harada noted that some moves such as the Electric Wind Godfist will not be executable as shortcuts though.

It is also being reported that the Wii U version also is having distinct frame rate issues that were easily noticible during the matches. It's uncertain if this will be in the final build of the game however.

This week marks the release of the long awaited fighting hybrid game, Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile. We published our review earlier today, praising the game's single-player game along with a fair few regrets about the online performance. If you're struggling to get to grips with the basics, here's our guide to landing a few solid blows.

What moves can my character make?

The list is far too extensive to put here, but if you want to see what each character is capable of, hit the pause menu at any time and select Command List.

A little knowledge only goes so far though, so it's well worth putting a character through its paces in the Training section of the single-player game.

Which characters should I choose?

Much will come down to personal preferences (not to mention mastery over so many years), but when picking your tag-team it's important to choose characters that compliment each other so that you're ready to handle any match-up.

A good fast brawler is useful for close-up encounters, but you might want someone a little zippier to go up against equally agile opponents.

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Namco Bandai has released a new update for its flagship fighter Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

The update includes three new brawlers, namely Slim Bob, Miharu Hirano and Sebastian, plus four new stages in the shape of Chile, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Tekken series boss Katsuhiro Harada previously commented on his dislike for offering new characters and related bonus content as paid DLC, and pleasingly he has kept his promise by offering the update completely free of charge.

This is in strike contrast to Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise, which has been supported by a wealth of paid DLC over the past couple of years.

Tekken Tag 2 features the most extensive fighter roster in the beat-‘em-up’s lengthy history, with over 50 characters up for grabs in the console version. In addition, the scrapper also includes new Tag-based techniques, such as the ability to attack an opponent simultaneously with your partner. .

The tournament organizers for Final Round XVI, Northeast Championships 13 and East Coast Throwdown 5 announced some good news for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 competitors recently, with an east coast circuit of events.

It's been a long time coming, but TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 is finally here and ready for tournament play! Whether you're a veteran of the TEKKEN franchise or a new player altogether, the TEKKEN community is always welcoming players of all walks of life into their ranks. TEKKEN has long since been a part of tournaments across the country, especially here on the east coast.

It's for that very reason that we're very proud to announce the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Circuit! This circuit will bring the winners of the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 tournaments from Northeast Championships in Philadelphia, PA, to FINAL ROUND XVI in Atlanta, GA, to East Coast Throwdown 5 in Morristown, NJ, all the way out to the EVOLUTION 2012 World Finals tournament.




The east coast is a huge place when you really think about it. Not everyone is able to travel up and down from Pennsylvania to Georgia then back up to New Jersey, especially if they come from states nowhere near these three. That's why we want to reward our winners with not only the prize money they've earned, but with the opportunity to go to a part of the country they may not have been able to see and compete in before.

The rules to this tournament circuit are simple. If you win the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 tournament at Northeast Championships 13 in Philadelphia, then you will be awarded a plane ticket to FINAL ROUND XVI. If you win FINAL ROUND XVI, you will be flown to East Coast Throwdown 5. If you win ECT5, you will be flown to Evolution in Vegas. Following NorthEast Championships The following TOP 8 at each event will be seeded for the following tournament and the rest of the entries will be seeded by region at Final Round XVI and for East Coast Throwdown 5. This promotes people to attend more than one event to make sure they are properly seeded in this circuit. Here's the following point system as listed below;

1st place 10 points
2nd place 7 points
3rd place 5 points
4th place 3 points
5th place 2 points
7th place 1 point

If you're local to any of these tournaments that you've won a trip to, we will pay for your hotel room instead of the flight. The four of us from Big E Gaming, FINAL ROUND LLC, and East Coast Throwdown want to make sure TTT2 is the most memorable TEKKEN for you guys yet, and what better way than to fly you around the country to represent your home turf?!

P.S.- Before you assume anything we at FINAL ROUND LLC, BigE Gaming, or ECT don't know what the official games will be for Evo2k13. We are offering these trip's to help the community travel to 4 great events in the fighting game community.

Now that that's all said and done, get your pads and sticks out and GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE!

Check out the official Facebook pages of each event for more updates at:

FINAL ROUND XVI: http://www.facebook.com/FinalRoundAtl

NEC13: http://bigegaming.com/

ECT5: http://www.facebook.com/ecthrowdown

Namco’s Tekken series is making the leap to the Wii U. The fighting game favourite is one of the first big games slotted for the console. But does it pack enough punch on the Wii U?

To cater to Wii U players, Nintendo and Namco have tailed the Wii U edition with loads of platform specific goodies, such as clothing and Nintendo music.

New to the Tekken series and only on the Wii U is the “Mushroom Battle” mode, in which players can gobble up various mushrooms as power-ups: the Red Mushroom makes you grow one size larger, the Yellow Mushroom makes you grow to “mega size”, and the Purple Mushroom shrinks you.

The Mushroom Battle opens up new gameplay dynamics. According to Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, the mode isn’t balanced any differently if you don’t use the mushrooms; however, if you do use them, it opens up a new style of play.

The Mushroom Battle mode is a new spin on Tekken. When you grow larger, it makes high kicks often meaningless against smaller players. It looks, and perhaps sounds, gimmicky. It’s not, as it was surprisingly enjoyable to play, mixing up elements of strategy, technique, and just dumb luck.

In a roundtable discussion, Harada said that the mode wasn’t originally inspired by Nintendo. While developing Tekken Tag 2, developers were messing around with a slider, making some characters smaller and other characters huge. They thought it was interesting, but it wasn’t until they started working on the Wii U version that the idea hit to use the mechanic with Mario’s iconic mushrooms.

Whether or not there’s an online version of the Mushroom Battle is still TBA. Harada stressed that the game’s online would be comparable to the Xbox 360 and PS3 regarding lag or the lack thereof.

While demoing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for the Wii U, Harada used the Wii U GamePad, saying that he found it comfortable. During my hands on, I used both the Wii U GamePad and the Pro Controller, preferring the Wii U GamePad — even though, the thing is very, very wide. There are shortcuts for attacks on the Wii U GamePad, and use them in succession to unleash combos. These shortcuts are aimed at players new to Tekken.

During my hands on, the Pro Controller didn’t feel very responsive; it’s too light; what’s more, the buttons are mushy. The controls didn’t feel tight, and that felt more like a hardware issue. Harada, however, said they are in talks to bring a fight stick out for the game, which should please hardcore fighting game fans. Namco’s hoping that the Tekken Tag 2 on the Wii U will, too.

The Tokyo Game Show has been going on the last few days and news has been slowly coming out about some of the upcoming games on the Nintendo Wii U, and one announced today was "Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition".

Originally "Tekken Tag Tournament 2" launched for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 a few days ago, but now Nintendo Wii U buyers have something to look forward to when the console launches in November.

Of course, 'Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition" will take advantage of the Wii U Gamepad, allowing for touchscreen controls. The Gamepad will let players map out custom shortcuts to whatever abilities they want, allowing those buttons be used to perform fighters combos.

Along with the custom Gamepad controls, the Nintendo version of the game will have a "Mushroom Battle" mode. The mode will take power ups from many classic Nintendo games and throw them into the battlefield. Posion Mushrooms, Starmen, and Mushrooms will be available for players to use, and as you can imagine, they do to the fighters what they did for the original characters that used them.

Grab a mushroom from "Super Mario Bros." and your fighter will grow in size, increasing his attack ability. Starmen will make you invincible for a few second, posion mushrooms will hurt your opponents, you get the idea. When asked if there was a balance concern when putting these power ups into the game, series producer Katsuhiro Harada said the power ups that change the game are what makes the mode entertaining.

We know the "Mushroom Battle" mode will be available locally for multiplayer, but there's no word on if it will be included with online functionality.

"Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition" will launch in November when the Nintendo Wii U launches.

(PRWEB UK) 18 September 2012
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Whats more, Bio-Synergy and Tekken will give one lucky winner the royal treatment for their gaming experience so theyll develop the hand and eye skills of a Master Warrior. One winner will take home a 46 LED flatscreen TV, a PS3 Slim Console with 160GB HDD, 2 sumptuous gaming chairs, and a mini-fridge. With such a decked-out temple of training, developing the elite moves of a master warrior will be a cinch.
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition will be available on 30th November in the UK, developer Namco has confirmed. That's Wii U release day.

Three other Namco games will also make Nintendo's big launch, including Japanese blaster Tank! Tank! Tank! and cartoon tie-in Ben 10: Omniverse.

Then there's colon-challenged mini-game compilation Family Party: 30 Great Games: Obstacle Arcade.

The four supplement the seven retail titles Nintendo previously announced for the Wii U launch: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, FIFA 13, Mass Effect 3: Special Edition, New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, Rayman Legends and ZombiU.

Downloadable titles Trine 2: Director's Cut, Toki Tori 2 and Nano Assault Neo will also be available.

Namco recently revealed that you'll be able to dress as Mario and Zelda in Tekken Tag Tournament for Wii U.