Tekken 8 announced at Evo 2022 (maybe) as Guilty Gear Strive sales hit 1 million

metro.co.uk:

It’s been a busy weekend of announcements at the Evo fighting game tournament but no-one’s quite sure what the new Tekken is.

Evo might be the biggest fighting game event in the world but while it’s often used to announce new DLC it rarely plays host to new game announcements. That seems to be changing though, now that Sony has taken over the event, with not just a new Fatal Fury but a new Tekken project too.

Although you’d assume what Bandai Namco has announced is Tekken 8, they never actually called it that. The only footage that was shown was the iconic cut scene of Kazuya throwing Heihachi off a cliff from the original PlayStation 1 game back in 1994, which some have taken as a hint that the new game is in fact a remake.

There’s usually not much point remaking a fighting game, so it could also indicate a reboot, as Tekken is one of the few video game series to have been using the same continuity since its inception.

Whatever the new project is though, The Game Awards immediately posted a tweet repeating the phrase ‘Get ready’, which implies the game will be unveiled at the next award show in December.

It’s also worth noting that last year’s Nvidia mega leak also mentioned Tekken 8, and it’s been right about almost everything so far.

The only thing we know for sure is that Tekken 7 is getting a new battle update on Wednesday, August 17, so that’s definitely still being supported.

There’s not much information on that yet either, other than it’ll feature balance changes and ‘new tactics’ for various characters, which seems to include new moves, combos, and a new wall bounce.

Tekken World Tour 2022 was also announced for February 4, 2023 in Amsterdam and Tekken 7 is already confirmed to be part of Evo 2023 next year, as whatever