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Bandai Namco Releases TEKKEN Saga 8-Bit Video

The TEKKEN franchise is one of the videogame industry’s longest running series encompassing over 20 years of history. This 20-year history also means numerous plot-points within the TEKKEN saga may have been forgotten or lost to the annals of time.

Today, we’re sharing the final part of our TEKKEN 8-bit Cinema video that will get everyone caught up on the drama and twists-and-turns contained within TEKKEN’s long-running storyline. Today’s finale covers TEKKEN history from TEKKEN 4 throughTEKKEN 6 and brings us up to the events that will be resolved in TEKKEN 7. Watch the battles amongst the Mishimas continue, spreading to a new generation as Jin battles Kazyua, while Jinpachi Mishima (Heihachi’s father) joins the action as the secret organizer of the fifth King of Iron Fist tournament.

TEKKEN 7 is available now in the Americas for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PCs via Steam.

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.