Tekken 8 Just Got Teased In The Weirdest Way
screenrant.comBandai Namco may have just revealed Tekken 8 in a bizarre and oddly nostalgic way during the Evolution Championship Series 2022 fighting game tournament livestream. This weekend’s festivities saw talented fighting game players from all over the world come together on the EVO stage in Los Vegas to test their skills in big-name titles like Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter 5, Skullgirls, and even the recently released Warner Bros-themed crossover brawler MultiVersus — and there were plenty of new reveals about the future of the fighting game genre even as fans celebrated its present.
Another major fighting game that was on display at this year’s EVO event was Tekken 7, which was released in 2017 and serves as the ninth overall installment in the long-running Tekken series. Longtime Tekken director and producer Katsuhiro Harada billed Tekken 7’s plot as a finale of sorts to the Mishima Zaibatsu storyline that has been at the heart of the series since the original Tekken (complete with Kazuya and Heihachi Mishima seemingly fighting their last battle in the climax of Tekken 7's story mode), but he also promised that there would be more Tekken games after Tekken 7 in the future. Now, it seems that the next installment of this fabled fighting game series has been teased in a cryptic and unorthodox way during this year’s EVO 2022 livestream.
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According to GamesRadar, yesterday’s EVO 2022 tournament livestream featured a brief clip of Kazuya Mishima’s ending in the original Tekken, showing the anti-hero tossing the body of his beaten father Heihachi over a cliff for the first and ultimately not last time. However, as the early-90s CGI character model of Kazuya turns to
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